China’s LED package market grew 19% Year-on-Year (YoY) to US $8.6 billion in 2014, according to LEDinside’s 2015 Global Sapphire and LED Chip Market Report. The lighting market has been the major growth momentum for the ...
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The share of total global solar photovoltaic (PV) production capacity taken by conventional crystalline silicon (x-Si) solar technologies is forecasted to decline further, from 84.7% in 2014 to 78.4% by 2019, as they approach their ...
Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached $25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 ...
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Coats Group, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, is launching a fusible thread which helps secure buttons and also other decorative applications such as sequins and beads. Named Secura, the ...
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India’s cumulative readymade garment exports in April-May 2015-16 were to the tune of $3.012 billion, showing an increase of 7 per cent compared to the exports of $2.814 billion in the same period of previous financial year, the ...
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As a proportion of total global lamp revenue, LED lamp revenue grew from 25% in 2013 to 30% in 2014 and is forecast to reach 67% in 2022 as the lighting market continues to transition to LED technology, according to a research note from ...
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Pan-European investment firm Aurelius Group has purchased UK-based compounder and recycler of post-use rigid plastics Regain Polymers Holdings. Previously owned by Chamonix Private Equity, Regain provides plastic recycling services to ...
Automotive major General Motors (GM) is calling back 780,000 crossover SUVs, most of them in North America, for defective rear power lift gates and another 155,000 cars in India to address wiring problem linked to remote. For North ...
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UK-based Jiffy Packaging is investing in new extrusion technology to produce polyethylene foam of varied thicknesses. Acquired by Airpack in 2014, the firm aims to make mass market penetration with the new expansion. The firm will make ...
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Colorado Cider Company is now releasing four of its most popular ciders in fourpacks of 12-ounce bottles. Previously available only in 22-ounce "bomber" bottles, Glider Cider, Glider Dry, Grasshop-Ah and Cherry Glider fourpacks are now ...
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Lower consumption of cotton will lead to higher ending stocks for both 2014/15 and 2015/16 relative to last month, says the US department of agriculture (USDA) in its estimate for this month’s world cotton supply and demand. For ...
China auto association downgrades growth rate China's vehicle sales plunged deeper in June, forcing the country's leading auto organization to slash the industry's estimated growth rate. Statistics from the China Association of ...
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China's coal imports, including lignite, thermal and metallurgical coal, totaled 16.6 million mt in June, up 16.5% from May, according to preliminary data released Monday by the General Administration of Customs. "Coal trade data showed a ...
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Japan's Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd has developed vertical gallium nitride (GaN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) capable of handling 50A forward current with 790V reverse blocking [Nariaka Tanaka et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol8, p071001, 2014]. "To ...
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Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) looking to use compressed natural gas (CNG), the cleanest, cheapest fuel for trucks and buses, will be able to fill up close to junction 28 on the M6 in Lancashire as CNG Fuels has secured planning permission for ...
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