LatticePower Corp of Nanchang, China, which claims to be the first company to commercialize GaN-on-silicon LED lighting, has announced an $80m initial round of Series D equity financing led by Asia Pacific Resources Development Investment ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon, LED lighting
Taiwan-based LED maker Epistar announced a merger with Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi) on June 30, 2014, with the former aiming to fully acquire the latter and become the surviving company. Epistar explained that the merger is meant to improve its ...
Tags: LED orders, epitaxial wafer, LED
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., one of South Korea's leading steelmakers, plans to become a global supplier of high-end steel products as part of efforts to brush off tough competition with Chinese and Japanese rivals, South Korea's media said on ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
The Open Country A/T II, produced at Toyo's White, Ga., plant, is its first U.S. OE fitment on Ford F-250/F-350 trucks. Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. announced that the company's Open Country A/T II (OPAT II) SUV tire, size LT275/65R20 ...
Tags: tire, tyre, auto parts
India-based Tata Motors has recently launched a nation-wide campaign to exhibit its latest 1.2T Revotron, 1.2 Liter MPFi Turbocharged petrol engine, which will power the company's upcoming new Bolt and Zest cars. Offering flexibility in ...
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Kyocera Corp. aims to boost pretax profit by around 40% over the fiscal 2013 figure to more than 200 billion yen ($1.94 billion) in fiscal 2017, says President Goro Yamaguchi. The Japanese ceramics maker will work to sell more components ...
Taiwan-based PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) makers have been expanding production capacities, with total monthly capacity to increase from 2.19 million 2-inch-equivalent substrates in the first quarter of 2014 to 2.63 million units in ...
Tags: PSS Makers, 4-inch PSS
Global supply of high-end LED chips is short of demand by 20-30% currently, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye of LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar. Despite the shortage, Epistar will not hike quotes for high-end LED chips and ...
Inventec has seen an improvement in the operations of three PV subsidiaries, company chairman Richard Lee said at its 2014 shareholders meeting on June 12. The three subsidiaries are crystalline silicon solar cell maker E-Ton Solar Tech, ...
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Solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) and cell maker Gintech Energy have announced the establishment of a PV module joint venture, Gintung Energy, with an initial paid-in capital of NT$370 million (US$12.3 million). GET and ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics began flip-chip LED shipments to China-, South Korea- and Japan-based vendors in the fourth quarter of 2013 and aims to increase the revenue proportion from 15% for the first half of 2014 ...
Hiwin comes with a bright picture for its robot shipments this year. (A Hiwin medical robot shown) Impressed by the sanguine outlook of the robot market, Chairman Eric Chuo of the Hiwin Group recently forecasted its?industrial robot ...
Tags: taiwan, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Robot, Machine
Snyder's-Lance has completed the acquisition of Baptista's Bakery, a producer of baked snack foods and 'better for you' snacks. The deal was originally announced on 7 May 2014. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. ...
Tags: Bakery, snack foods
Hong Kong-based luxury vehicle maker Infiniti Motor is set to debut the new Q50 Eau Rouge prototype at the Goodwood Festival of Speed scheduled to be held during 27-29 June in West Sussex, England. Q50 Eau Rouge Prototype will be equipped ...
British luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has invested £200m to expand production capacity of its Halewood plant in Merseyside, UK. With the investment, the company intends to start production of its Land Rover Discovery ...
Tags: Land Rover, luxury car