The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $27.24 billion for the month of November 2013, an increase ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
Lower corn prices in 2014 will likely keep a lid on Western hay prices, predicted Seth Hoyt, hay market analyst and keynote speaker at last week's Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium in Reno, NV. Supreme alfalfa hay prices, he added, should ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The Facts 2012 – showed a 34% recycling rate, 35% energy recovery rate and 31% landfill figure. It found 69.2% of all plastic packaging waste was recovered in 2012, the balance going to landfills and incineration without energy ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Plastic Packaging
Major Taiwan-based LCD driver IC players, including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies and Orise Technology, are set to enjoy continued sales growth in 2014 thanks to orders from China-based smartphone vendors, according to ...
Tags: LCD Driver ICs, Full HD
South Korea's steel export was down by 4.3% in 2013, the first time within 4 years. According to Korea Iron and Steel Association, the steel exports totaled at 29.2 million tons in 2013, dropped by 4.3% from 30.5 million tons a year ago. An ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
According to the statistics, the United States imported 2,584,000 tons of steel in November, 2013, dipped by 16.7% and the year to date total amount is 29.63 million in 2013, down by 4% compared with the same period of time previous year. ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Taiwan's rebar price in 2013 dropped by about 9.5% compared to a year earlier due to weak demand from the construction industry. The average price for CNS560-SD280 rebar price was about NT$17,391/ton (about US$584/ton) in whole 2013 which ...
China has reported 29.9 smoggy days on average so far 2013, the hightest number since 1961. The number was 10.3 days highe than that of the same period in ordinary years. Anti-dust smasks and air purifiers are selling well in China due ...
Tags: Anti-Dust Masks, Masks, Air Purifiers, Purifiers, Smoggy
Sapphire wafer maker Tera Xtal Technology expects global supply of sapphire wafers to be short beginning the first quarter of 2014 due to increasing use in smartphones and other mobile devices. The company currently has a monthly ...
Although the contraction of Taiwan's machine-tool exports slowed to 5.8% for the month of November 2013, the Taiwan Machine Tool & Accessory Builders' Association (TMBA) estimates that the island's overseas shipments of machine tools for ...
Tags: taiwan, Manufacturing, Processing Machine, Machine Tool
What can farm tire dealers expect in 2014? The experts believe Q4 2013 numbers will be strong enough for a good lead into 2014, and that momentum should continue throughout the year for the replacement farm tire market. Every December ...
Tags: Farm Tire, Tire, Tyre, Auto Parts
The rapid developing of E-commerce pushed more and more industrial including office supplies turned into the online sales.And most of China stationery manufacturers also engaged in the E-commerce from the traditional sales channels. The ...
Tags: Office Supplies, Stationery
Adam Gendell, project manager at GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition At first blush, it certainly sounds like a good word, a warm and fuzzy word. A word that surely belongs hand-in-hand with the many R words we use in ...
On Thursday, the CME Group corn market is leading the way up, soybeans down. At mid-session, the March corn futures contract is trading 1 1/2 cents higher at $4.23. The March soybean futures contract is trading 18 cents lower at $12.76. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Corn, Soybeans
San Diego–based CareFusion announced this week that it has finalized much of its planned $500 million purchase of Vital Signs from GE Healthcare. The acquisition of the $250-million-a-year Vital Signs doubles the size of ...