Japanese stocks rose for a third day after better-than-estimated data on the nation’s machinery orders. Oil and the New Zealand dollar declined as Chinese exports grew at a slower pace than economists’ forecasts. The Nikkei 225 ...
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Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics, due to increasing orders from Sharp for backlighting applications for LCD TVs over 50 inches, expects to fully utilize its capacity in late March or early April 2012, ...
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Epistar, a Taiwan-based maker of LED chips, will distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$1.1 for its 2011 operation, 96.43% in excess of the corresponding net earnings per share of NT$0.56, according to the company. The cash dividend per ...
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The fourth quarter of last year heralded a slowdown in the amount of OSB that the US exported to most overseas markets after significant growth in the first half and first nine months of the year. The full-year growth rate was thus less ...
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February brought a widespread end to the downward spiral that has afflicted Central European OSB prices since mid-2011, a number of OSB manufacturers report. Prices have altered little in the past few weeks after buyers managed to secure ...
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In order to tap the large market in China, Taiwan-based LED makers need to leverage advantages in terms of technology, patents and production management to forge cooperation with fellow makers in China, according to industry sources. The ...
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Global demand for small- to medium-size semiconductor-grade silicon wafers and LED sapphire substrates will improve from the preceding quarter in second-quarter 2012, while demand for solar-grade silicon wafers will be uncertain due to ...
The Saudi commerce and industry minister, Tawfiq Al-Rabea has set the factory price of a cement bag at SR12 and the retail price at SR14, and the price of bulk cement at SR240 a tonne, Saudi Gazette has reported. Cement production in the ...
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Funds managed by New Forests have taken a controlling interest in the 46, 000 hectare Auspine estate. New Forests' Australia New Zealand Forest Fund is the lead investor in the transaction, which includes the land and trees of the ...
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Sears Holdings Corp. paid its chief executive $9.9 million last year, including incentives the ailing department store operator offered to lure the former technology executive, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory ...
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Duerr AG (DUE), a German maker of auto manufacturing machinery, expects to post higher sales this year than in 2011 and will propose a dividend of 1.20 euros to the supervisory board, Chief Financial Officer Ralph Heuwig told the ...
Despite the lingering European sovereign debt crisis, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry president C. C. Wang said Taiwan’s machine-tool industry has gradually bottomed and demand from emerging markets as China, India and ...
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Foreseeing WPC (wood plastic composite) to become one of the world’s trend-setting green building materials, Chen Yu Plastic Machine Co., Ltd., a supplier of plastic product making machines, is poised for mass production of WPC plate ...
Finland is “sceptical” of EU plans to draw up sustainability criteria for solid biomass. In a Finnish Forest Association article on forests web portal forest. Fi, Finnish forests official Heikki Granholm says the relevant issue ...
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German cement maker HeidelbergCement is getting its energy costs under control and is raising prices, allowing the company to predict profitability will remain at least on last year s level when it was among the highest in the industry. ...
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