Egypt's largest steelmaker Ezz Steel has announced its financial results for the first half of the current year, reporting a net loss of EGP 176 million ($24.6 million), compared to a net profit of EGP 302 million in the first half of 2013. ...
Tags: Ezz Steel, long steel
Australia-based Ausenco Limited has announced that its Brazilian subsidiary has been awarded the contract to deliver engineering, procurement and construction services for Brazilian miner Ferrous Resources' US$1.28 billion expansion of the ...
Tags: Ferrous Resources, Iron Ore
UK-based Plessey has announced a further move to aligning operations to its expanding facility in Plymouth by adding an LED assembly line. The line should enable the firm to focus on its high-brightness LED growth plans based around its ...
Tags: Plessey, Assembly Line, Electrical
According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, consumption of five of the leading additives for coatings and inks in 2013 was 1.02 million tons, as supplied, worth $4.66 billion. A 5 percent annual rate of ...
Tags: Kusumgar, Nerlfi&Growney, Construction
BASF is changing the organizational set-up of its paper chemicals business to strengthen its competitiveness and better meet the needs of the paper industry. BASF is a leading global supplier to the paper industry and offers a comprehensive ...
Tags: BASF, Chemicals Business, Decoration
Orbotech has completed the acquisition of SPTS Technologies Group which works in the areas of advanced packaging and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). The company said that the acquisition of SPTS would help them as the latter is a ...
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes components, subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has launched the Dual micro-ITLA (integrable tunable laser assembly) for the coherent market, which has begun ...
L.L.Bean plans to open its first Minnesota store. The new L.L.Bean store will be located in the popular Mall of America. The 29,000 square-foot store will employ approximately 120 people and will feature an assortment of active and casual ...
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Sportsman's Warehouse will open its fifth store in Colorado and its fourth in Arizona next summer. The new stores will be located in Sheridan, CO and Flagstaff, AZ. Th Midvale-UT-based specialty retailer plans to open eight new stores in ...
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volumes of its AWB7122 and AWB7222 small-cell power amplifiers to Nextivity Inc of San Diego, CA, USA (a global provider ...
Tags: Anadigics, Power Amplifiers
Two years after launching its first-generation 100G coherent transponder, CIVCOM of Petach Tikva, Israel (which provides high-end DWDM tunable transponders) claims to be first to release a line of second-generation 100G coherent ...
Tags: Clariphy DSP, Transponders
In booth 376 at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2014) in Cannes, France (22-24 September), optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of Chatsworth, CA, USA is giving a live demonstration of ...
Optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of Chatsworth, CA, USA has announced what it claims is the first integrated, pluggable Gigiabit passive optical networks (GPON) SFP optical networking unit (ONU) with 1 ...
Tags: Source Photonics, GPON
Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has expanded beyond its LED product offerings to include the Matrix Platform, consisting of turnkey LED solutions using components, optics and LUXEON LEDs assembled on a wide selection of board types. ...
Tags: Lumileds, Matrix Platform, LED Boards
Iridium Communications Inc of McLean, VA, USA has completed an extensive testing program for qualification of its new solar panel design for the Iridium NEXT constellation of satellites. The array that powers the satellites contains four ...
Tags: Spectrolab, solar panel