The Chinese government has been cutting back on subsidies to manufacturers of LED chips, a reason some companies are blaming for their poor first quarter results. This points to a change in approach to policies over the once-hyped sector ...
Tags: LED industry, LED Sector, LED
Increasing confidence in the economy and a rising stock market could lay the groundwork for a revival in tech-sector mergers and acquisitions as companies embrace cloud technology and pursue game-changing software, particularly for the ...
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Rieter handed over the first Com4jet license in China: Yangtse Spinning has recently been made a licensee of Rieter Com4jet yarns. During the official ceremony Mr. Heiner Eberli, Head of Sales Rieter China, officially handed over the ...
Tags: Yangtse, Com4jet Machine
In March this year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production increased by one percent in the euro area and by 0.9 percent in the EU-27, as compared with February, when production had increased by 0.3 percent month on month in both zones. ...
Tags: Industrial Output, Mineral
Turkey's billet imports in the first quarter of this year constituted the highest quarterly volume since the second quarter of 2009. Increasing by 23.2 percent compared to the previous quarter and up 33.2 percent compared to the same ...
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in April of the current year the wholesale selling prices of industrial products in Germany were 0.4 percent lower compared to April 2012, the first year-on-year price decrease ...
Tags: Metal Prices, Mineral
In April this year, Ukrainian steel mill Dneprospetstal's output of crude steel decreased by 6.1 percent month on month to 25,976 mt, while its rolled metal production increased by 0.9 percent month on month to 17,460 mt, according to the ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel Corporation (CSC) has announced that in April this year its carbon steel sales volume amounted to 813,246 metric tons, up 1.87 percent compared to March, accounting for 64 percent of domestic sales. ...
Tags: Carbon Steel, Mineral
German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that Chinese steelmaker Hebei Puyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd (Puyang Steel) has ordered a medium slab caster from China-based SMS Siemag Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd, to be installed at the steel ...
Tags: Puyang Steel, Slab Caster
In the January-April period of the current year, the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 2.088 million mt, up two percent year on year, as announced by the ...
Tags: crude steel, Mineral
On May 14, Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Angang Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) announced that it will issue its first medium-term notes for the current year on May 21, valued at a total of RMB 4 billion ($651.5 million). The notes ...
Tags: Ansteel, Medium-Term Notes
Volkswagen is recalling around 91,000 cars in Japan due to potential problems with the company’s dual-clutch (DSG) automatic gearboxes, less than two months after more than 384,000 cars were recalled in China for a similar issue. A ...
Tags: Volkswagen, Gearbox Recall, Japan
The cash, which originates from the FSA’s Strategic Planning Programme, will be channelled through the TSB’s Nutrition for Life – Providing Safe and Healthy Food competition. “The competition will fund ...
Tags: TSB, Food Standards Agency, Food safety
The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) cited the Colorado-based firm for 10 serious, two repeat and two other-than-serious violations. OSHA began an inspection in November 2012 under its Site ...
Tags: OSHA, Citation, Violation, Health and safety, Penalty
The study in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture states deploying bacteriophages –types of virus – directly on to food to attack and kill harmful bacteria is becoming more popular. Recent studies “strongly ...