Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has seen its third-quarter 2012 equipment orders pick up by 15% sequentially to €34.5m. The company says that current Q4/2012 quotation levels suggest a continuation of ...
Homag encountered a significant slump in Eastern European business in the first half of 2012. Order intake (excluding commercial products, replacement parts and services) was down 39.2% compared with last year. The company blamed this on ...
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Orders are stable for Italian textile machinery manufacturers in the April-June period compared to the first quarter, although the domestic market remains in a critical situation. Based on an economic survey conducted by the Association of ...
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Rieter Group releases result for the first half of 2012. Higher order intake than in the second half of 2011 – lower sales, as expected – profitability reduced by lower volumes and the investment program – investment ...
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HMS Group issued the following statement regarding orders received during Q2 2012. Highlights In Q2 2012, order intake under management accounts more than doubled, up 143% YoY and amounted to Rub 10.5 bn (USD 326 mn [1]) versus Rub 4.3 bn ...
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Driven by the major acquisition of a wastewater pumps business and organic growth, order intake increased significantly by nominal 11% to CHF 2 025 million in the first half of 2012. Adjusted for currency effects as well as acquisitions and ...
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L/LDPE The L/LDPE price bubble has truly burst with notations tumbling in June. Producers initially hoped to limit the downward price adjustment in line with the ?20/tonne drop in the June ethylene contract price but were swiftly forced to ...
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Aixtron's revenue rebounds by 10%; non-LED activities gaining traction Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that, for second-quarter 2012, its revenues and orders have stabilized at the levels of Q1/2012. ...
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Slower demand has remained pervasive on Central European OSB markets over the past few weeks. This comes after a surprisingly strong March was followed by a slump that set in at the start of April. Several manufacturers reported that order ...
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Steady Jenoptik in'wait and see'mode 11 May 2012 Sales and orders look healthy but CEO expresses concern over ongoing debt crisis. Germany-headquartered optics giant Jenoptik says that demand from the semiconductor industry was better ...
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OC Oerlikon Corp AG (OERL), the Swiss maker of textile machinery that announced the sale of a solar unit to Tokyo Electron in March, said profits may rise further than earlier guidance as a slumping textile market stabilizes. “The ...
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The upswing in demand that surfaced in Austria, Germany and Switzerland in the second half of February actually intensified in March. At the same time, a number of European export markets have picked up, as well. As a result, Central ...
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Independent impregnating businesses have encountered relatively steady order intake in the past few weeks.The minor upswing that emerged in January after a rather weak final quarter of 2011 has thus remained in place.Nonetheless,business ...
German plant and machinery orders declined for a fourth month in February, driven by a drop in foreign demand, the VDMA machine-makers'association said. Orders, adjusted for inflation, fell 16 percent from a year earlier after declining an ...
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AIXTRON SE (ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6, DE000A1MMEF7), a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, delivered in 2011 – despite the market weakness in the second half – EUR 611.0m of revenues and a ...
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