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LEDinside Weaker LED Demands Drives Down Sapphire Prices More than 30%

Oct 14, 2015

The average monthly price of sapphire has fallen by more than 30% year on year this September, according to the latest 2015 Global Sapphire and LED Chip Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. This decline is the result of ...

Tags: sapphire, led, price, chip

HC Semitek Seals RMB 1.08 B Acquisition Deal with Sapphire Maker Crystaland

Oct 14, 2015

HC Semitek board approved the acquisition of Chinese sapphire substrate manufacturer Crystaland during a recent shareholder meeting. The acquisition deal signals the company is extending its reach into the upstream LED market sector, and ...

Tags: M&A, HC Semitek, Cyrstaland

China Exported LED Lighting Totaled US $355 M to India from January to August

Oct 14, 2015

Chinese manufacturers exported LED lighting goods to India for the first eight months of 2015 reached US $355 million, according to a DIGITIMES report. LED lighting exports to India soared 76.61% annually, broken down into different ...

Tags: LED, China, India market

Major Taiwanese Sapphire Manufacturer Tera Xtal Technology Slashes Jobs

Oct 14, 2015

The LED market has shown mixed results in different global regions recently. Stagnant LED shipment growth, and plunging sapphire substrate prices have brought related manufacturers operations under the market lime light. Market sources ...

Tags: sapphire industry, restructure, LED market

How Yang Hwa Technology Falsified its Financial Statement

Oct 14, 2015

Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Yang Hwa Technology owner Shih-Hsiung Chan was detained by police on Sept. 11, 2015 for suspected accounting fraud and market manipulation, according to a report by China Times. In mid-June, Chan was ...

Tags: insider trading, Yang Hwa Technology, market manipulation

Chinese Rubber Machinery Industry in 2013 and 2014

Oct 14, 2015

Rubber machinery is used to produce various rubber products like tyre, and it is principally composed of internal mixer, rolling extrusion machine, cutting machine, shaping mill, vulcanizing machine, mould, testing equipment, among others. ...

Tags: rubber products, tyre, cutting machine, mould

UBS Downgrades Everlight and Epistar Ratings

Oct 14, 2015

UBS forecasted oversupply situation in the LED industry will continue into 2016, while sliding LED prices will nullify growing shipment volume advantages, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. These projected market ...

Tags: Epistar, Everlight, UBS ratings

Macroblock and Hawkeye Solution Platform Partners Showcase HD LED Display in Shanghai

Oct 14, 2015

The exhibition of LED China 2015 in Shanghai brought a perfect ending right before Chinese Mid Autumn Festival. High definition LED displays are everywhere at the show. Exhibitors demonstrated wide applications of high definition LED ...

Tags: Macroblock, Shanghai, Hawkeye Solution Platform, HD LED Display

Vietnam’s LED Lighting Market Potential and Government Policies

Oct 14, 2015

China’s exports to 70 countries under its “One Belt, One Road” strategy was up 1.5% to US$ 372 billion from January to June 2015, according to China’s custom data. The country’s imports declined 18.8% to US$ ...

Tags: Vietnamese lighting products market, ASEAN lighting market

What Is The National Electrical Code for Outdoor LED Display?

Oct 13, 2015

The National Electric Code (NEC) Section 600 requires for all Electronic Message Centers to be inspected and approved by nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories such as the Underwriters Laboratory (UL). What is the National Electric ...

Tags: LED Display, Outdoor Display, Chipshow

Aurora Invests RMB 40M in New Subsidiary

Oct 13, 2015

Chinese sapphire maker Aurora announced last week, it would be investing RMB 40 million (US $6.32 million) in a new investment management arm to integrate investments in the sapphire supply chain, according to a report from China Securities ...

Tags: sapphire, Aurora, sapphire ingot

Harvatek Forms Partnership with Research Institute to Develop LED Thread

Oct 13, 2015

Low market demands in the past few months has driven Taiwanese LED manufacturer Harvatek to explore innovative LED technologies including forming a partnership that includes teaming up with Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI) to ...

Tags: Harvatek, LEDtextile, LEDattire, LEDthread, TTRI

LumaNEXT Takes Part in Climate Leader Summit as U.S. Smart Cities Allicance Member

Oct 13, 2015

LumaNEXT, a provider of lighting and energy management and a leader in 21st century smart lighting technology, is back from the first international Climate Leader Summit held in Los Angeles, CA, where they participated as invited attendees ...

Tags: LumaNEXTClimate, Leader Summit, U.S.Smart Cities Allicance Member

Pork Powerhouses 2015: Expansion Looms

Oct 13, 2015

When corn is cheap, hogs get plentiful. The annual Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 25 largest producers in the U.S. shows a gain of 128,000 sows in the past year. With two new packing plants set to open in 2017, producers are gearing up to ...

Tags: corn, Pork, Smithfield Foods

Global and China Bearing Industry Report

Oct 13, 2015

Bearing, a critical component for contemporary mechanical equipment, finds wide applications in automobile, electromechanics, construction machinery, household appliances, metallurgy and mining machinery, etc. In 2014, global bearing ...

Tags: Bearing, gearbox, roller bearings