Profit declines for China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) continued but narrowed in November, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday. China's non-financial SOEs raked in 2 trillion yuan (309.1 billion U.S. dollars) in profits from ...
Tags: State Companies, Profitability
Chinese stocks tumbled for the second straight session Thursday led by brokerages and the coal sector. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 0.65 percent to close at 3,612.49 points. The Shenzhen index lost 0.58 percent to finish ...
Tags: Shares, Brokerages
Sonoco Consumer Products Europe is planning to close two of its tobacco production plants in Germany, resulting in the removal of 100 employees. The Bunde plant in Northwest Germany will be closed by May 2016 and Hockenheim 3 plant in ...
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Blumberg Grain, a US-based food security company, opened its command and control center, as part of the government of Egypt's Shouna Development Project. The launch, which was attended by VIP guests and dignitaries, took place onsite at ...
Tags: Blumberg Grain, a US-based food security company, Agriculture
The global notebook market will face more uncertainty in 2016 as Xiaomi Technology and Huawei will debut in the mature market, and Samsung Electronics has also renewed its interest in it, according to industry sources. As the global ...
Tags: notebook market, Xiaomi, smartphones
Toshiba Corp. said on Saturday its group net loss for the business year ending in March will far outweigh that of the previous year's and may top its record of 398.8 billion yen (3.29 billion U.S. dollars) logged in the year through March ...
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Scandal-plagued Toshiba Corp. on Monday unveiled wholesale restructuring plans in an aggressive move to return the ailing electronics firm to profitability which will include some 7,800 jobs being slashed from its workforce. The firm ...
University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, and University of Crete have been exploring the potential of Frster resonant energy transfer (FRET) from an indium gallium nitride (InGaN) single quantum well (SQW) to a light-emitting ...
Tags: InGaN, InGaN quantum well, FRET
The UK needs to allow more shale gas exploration wells nation-wide before a reliable picture of the effect of a shale industry on the country can be properly formulated, the Task Force on Shale Gas said late Monday. The Task Force on ...
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A weak crude complex which has seen futures values drop to multi-year lows is only adding to an already depressed Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp spot propane market, where demand has failed to benefit from any increase in end-user heating ...
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Eight Flygt CP 3800 pumps and five Flygt EL7585 turbines will regulate water levels in the canal network and harness energy from excess water in the Albert Canal. BESIX Sanotec-Balteau commissioned Xylem to develop a compact solution to ...
Tags: Xylem, Pump, five Flygt EL7585 turbines
Listed lenders from China may see zero or negligible profit growth next year, with some likely to incur marginal losses, a new report said on Monday. The nonperforming loans ratio, which measures bad loans as a percentage of total loans, ...
Tags: Uneasy Outlook, loans ratio
Hybrid optoelectronic devices based on blends of hard and soft semiconductors can combine the properties of the two material types, opening the possibility for devices with novel functionality and properties, such as cheap and scalable ...
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Premier Li Keqiang has pledged "firmer resolve and greater efforts" to tackle the long-standing problem of industrial overcapacity as "old growth drivers" such as manufacturing and investment continue to struggle. China is experiencing a ...
Tags: high-tech industries, Overcapacity
AlGaN/GaN and InAlN/GaN structures combine high electron mobility and high critical electric field strength and are excellent platforms for the production of next-generation RF and power electronics devices such as high-electron-mobility ...
Tags: LayTec, Metrology MOCVD, AlGaN/GaN HEMTs