Sellers at the 8th Asia LNG summit in Beijing Wednesday said there is a growing shortfall of LNG globally, as buyers wait on the sidelines, preferring to sign LNG term contracts linked to other indexation points rather than traditional ...
Tags: Potential LNG, gas
US net natural gas imports fell 14% last year to 1,311 Bcf, the lowest level since 1989, as US production likely set a new record, the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday. The agency said total imports in 2013 fell 8% to ...
Tags: natural gas, Pipeline
Few spot deals for Indonesian thermal coal were reported Wednesday, as Indian buyers opted to purchase from port stocks while Chinese demand remained inactive, sources said. A Dubai-based trader said he had seen many inquiries from Indian ...
Tags: thermal coal, Chinese demand
The price spread in Asia between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene fell to a three-month low of $284/mt on Tuesday, as benzene supply has tightened while SM supply has increased, Platts data showed. The FOB Korea benzene ...
The European premium of ETBE over MTBE -- two gasoline components -- hit a two-and-a-half-year high of $166/mt Tuesday, as imports from Brazil fell, according to market sources. Platts assessed ETBE barges for spot delivery at $1,277/mt ...
Tags: gasoline, spot market
They successfully developed 560 mW high-power UV LED and their strategy is to take the dominant position in UV LED market which has a higher technical barrier. LG Innotech announced on the 20th that they succeeded in the development of a ...
Gartner brings more than thirty years of experience in manufacturing and engineering, including establishing and growing manufacturing operations for clean and reliable energy solutions. His expertise and experience will help transition ...
Tags: UV LED, commercial product
Some says “if it can be made on Silicon, it will be made on silicon”. Is that true for GaN too? And if so, can it be applied in all GaN-based applications: LED, power, RF and laser?… Yole Développement (Yole) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics
While there is an opinion that strong demand for data center servers may maintain for three years at the most and subsequently there will be demand for replacement and maintenance services only, Taiwan-based ODMs generally believe that the ...
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Open cell TV panels sized 32-inch are in short supply due to recent demand in Africa, North America and Europe, and are likely to be in tight supply until the end of 2014, according panel makers. The sources said demand is picking up ...
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People attempting to quit smoking without professional help were approximately 60 per cent more likely to report succeeding if they used e-cigarettes than if they used willpower alone or over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapies such ...
Tags: E-Cigarettes, Smokers
The Withers family behind 7-Eleven in Australia have acquired the Australian operating licence of Starbucks and control of the local operations of the global coffee giant. However, the Withers Group have intimated that the existing 24 ...
Tags: Starbucks, 7-Eleven Connections
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has released a new generation of Acrich MJT 5050 LEDs, with high lumen output, reliability and cost performance optimized for the outdoor lighting market. At a drive current of 20mA and a forward ...
The need for high-power, high-frequency transistors is increasing steadily, commensurate with the huge demand for wireless telecommunications, notes market research firm Yole Développement in its report ‘RF GaN Technology & ...
Midsummer AB of Järfälla, Sweden, a supplier of equipment for manufacturing flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells, has increased the energy conversion efficiency of its cells from 15% to 16.2% ...
Tags: PV Cell, flexible copper