Taiwan’s National Chiao-Tung University has developed a titanium nitride/copper (TiN/Cu) gate structure for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) that shows improvements over a comparison ...
Tags: GaN HEMT, Electronics
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has acquired the 250MWAC photovoltaic Moapa Solar ...
Tags: Solar Project, Electronics
Cree Inc has introduced the XLamp XQ-E LED family, which it says enables lighting manufacturers to significantly reduce the size and total cost of their LED luminaires without sacrificing light output, efficacy or reliability. The new LED ...
In 2012, although the growth rate of global demand for industrial robots has slowed down, the sales volume of robots worldwide set the record the second highest just after that in 2011 and arrived at 159,000 units. In particular, ...
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Pending home sales slowed in August, with tight inventory conditions, higher interest rates, rising home prices and continuing restrictive mortgage credit impacting the market, according to the National Association of Realtors. The ...
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Yieh United Steel Corp. (Yusco), one of the major stainless steel producers in Taiwan announced to cut its list prices for 300 series products by NT$2,000/ton. However, Yusco remained its list prices for 400 series products unchanged for ...
Tags: Yusco, Stainless Domestic Prices
According to USA’s Census office, Latin American countries exported 40.2% more the steel products to the US in this August. The total quantity was 773,451 tons against 551,564 tons in the same month last year. Brazil is the biggest ...
Tags: Steel Product
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) senior official said in spite of the LME aluminum prices in the doldrums recently, the company is still expected to achieve annual growth target for 2013. MahmoodHashimAlKooheji, the directors in the Bahrain ...
The Taiwanese steel pipe producers announced to raise list prices for October, in order to reflect Chung Hung Steel’s price rise. It’s learned that Chung Hung Steel, the major upstream supplier to the Taiwanese steel pipe ...
Tags: Steel Pipe, Mineral
According to statistics released by China’s customs, the country’s exports of welded steel pipes totaled 332,270 tons in August, falling by 5% from a month ago but rising by 9% year on year. In the first eight months of this ...
Tags: Welded Steel Pipes, Mineral
It’s reported that Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless (NSSC) announced to cut domestic prices for its austenitic and ferritic stainless rods by ¥15,000/ton and ¥5,000/ton for September-November contracts. NSSC said that it ...
Tags: Stainless Rod, Mineral
BHP Billiton, the biggest miner in the world, said earlier this week that the global prime material market is weakening due to the increasing supply and also showed its moderate outlook of the steel demand in Asia. The company’s ...
Combined with a more favourable sterling to euro exchange rate, this “good growth” is projected to lead higher revenue for the period to 30 September, RPC said in its pre-close trading update. The rigid plastics packaging firm ...
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The East Sussex-based firm said its second Bossar machine will help it to pack its liquid waterproofing and washing formulations. Nikwax operations director Mick Parmar said: “The Nikwax products can be challenging to pack due to ...
Tags: Nikwax, Stand-up Pouch Machine
The firm said that its new ‘Direct Dispenser’ is a fast, automatic labour-saving way of dispensing process colours, coatings and ready-mixed colours that need no blending directly to the packaging printing press. Suited for ...
Tags: Direct Dispenser, Inks