As LED market penetration rate continues to increase, global LED market growth has slowed down in recent years. In China, domestic LED chip manufacturers have exceeded a dominant 70% market share. In addition, global companies have ...
Tags: LED industry, LED chips
A new joint survey from UBS and the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has found Australian supermarket suppliers are investing in new product development as a top priority. In releasing the results of the latest ‘UBS-AFGC ...
Tags: grocery sector, export opportunities, offshore wind farm
Retail footfall in May was up 0.3% YOY, according to the latest BRC-Springboard Footfall and Vancancies Monitor. This was better than the 2.4% decline seen in April, and significantly above the three month average of -1.7%. High street ...
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2015 is set to see property across Asia Pacific experience a continued increase in investment volumes, improved tenant demand and structural change across various sectors. According to Colliers International’s 2015 Asia Pacific ...
The signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Korea is expected to result in a structural change in trade patterns between the two counties. The FTA and its consequences thus offer a rare moment for Taiwan to review its ...
Tags: free trade agreement, tariff rates
Prices for large cargoes of butane in Northwest Europe fell Tuesday to the lowest level in a year on low demand and ample supplies. Platts assessed the price of a 4,000 mt CIF refrigerated cargo of mixed butane loading 10-25 days forward ...
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Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced Wednesday first quarter net income of $39 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.8 billion. By comparison, prior year first quarter net income was $48 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, on ...
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Ubiquitous but frustrating, lithium-ion batteries fade because the materials lose their structure in response to charging and discharging. This structural change is closely related to the formation of electron-rich regions within the ...
Tags: electrons, The Lithiation Front, Silicon
Abnormal number of chromosomes is often associated with cancer development. In a new study published in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown that a subtle epigenetic ...
Light-gathering macromolecules in plant cells transfer energy by taking advantage of molecular vibrations whose physical descriptions have no equivalents in classical physics, according to the first unambiguous theoretical evidence of ...
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Americans' spending on health care rose a relatively modest 3.7 percent in 2012 -- slower than the growth of the overall economy -- dropping from 17.3 percent of U.S. spending to 17.2 percent, according to an annual report from the Centers ...
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American Car Care Centers Inc. (ACCC) will inform dealers and suppliers today of its board of director's decision to dissolve the company by Jan. 31, 2014. Since its 1989 formation, ACCC has grown to encompass a combination of 21 ...
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Debenhams plc, the leading international, multi-channel brand, announces full year results for the 52 weeks to 31 August 2013. Financial headlines -Gross transaction value up 2.5%: UK up 2.3%, International up 3.7% -Group like-for-like ...
Tags: multi-channel brand, Apparel
UK-based etch, deposition and growth system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), part of Oxford Instruments plc, says it is restructuring to sharpen its focus on main target customer groups and build existing strengths. ...
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Speaking at the International Steel Trade Day organized by STSG-Eurometal in Milan on April 4, Juergen Nusser, managing director of Eurometal, presented a negative outlook for the European steel market in 2013. Demand fell by 9.5 ...
Tags: Steel Capacity, Nusser, Mineral