Due to strong demand in the global LED lighting market in first-half 2013, the utilization rate of metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) systems that the major chip makers have installed and debugged is rising, according to ...
Tags: China, MOCVD Tool, LEDs, GaN
China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has quit production of sapphire ingots and will sell two factories together with production equipment in eastern China to Taiwan-based sapphire wafer maker Tera Xtal Technology. GCL Poly's suspended ...
Tags: GCL-Poly, China, Sapphire Ingot
Japanese ingredients company Ajinomoto has opened a new JPY17bn ($170m) facility for the production of umami seasoning AJI-NO-MOTO in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand. The completion ceremony was held on 15 July and full-scale operation ...
Reportedly, Severstal North America and US Steel have terminated their partnership in the joint venture Double Eagle Steel Coating Co. in Dearborn, Michigan due to weak market demand for electro-galvanized sheets. Sergei Kuznetsov, CEO of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Steel
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. ("Company"), the leading developer of advanced spider silk based fibers, today announced that it is scheduled to start commercial production of Monster Silk(TM). The first phase, scheduled to begin within ...
The annual revenue of downstream polypropylene converters in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council will reach a combined total of $1.34 billion in 2016, US based consultancy Frost & Sullivan said Monday. The GCC comprises of the UAE, ...
Tags: Polypropylene Converters, Electronics, Industrial Equipment, Instruments
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, the leading developer of advanced spider silk based fibers, announced that it is scheduled to start commercial production of Monster Silk. The first phase, scheduled to begin within the next three weeks, will ...
Tags: Monster Silk, Textile
Texas State University (in San Marcos) has announced an agreement granting MicroPower Global Ltd (which was established in 2008 and is developing thermoelectric devices for energy conservation, energy harvesting and refrigeration) exclusive ...
US-based Kajima Associates/Architects & Engineers, PC (KA/AEPC) has secured a contract from Japanese firm Yokohama Tire (YTC) to design its new commercial tire manufacturing plant in West Point, Mississippi. Under the deal, the KA/AEPC ...
South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor has completed the expansion of its vehicle assembly plant in Turkey with an investment of EUR475m. The Turkish facility, Hyundai Assan Otomotive Sanayi (HAOS) in Izmit, was built in 1997 and it is ...
Tags: Hyundai, Turkish Vehicle, Auto Parts
According to report, Mexican integrated steelmaker Altos Hornos de Mexico (Ahmsa) will start up is expansion plan Fenix on July 18th. The Fenix project is expected to increase Ahmsa’s annual steel production capacity by 40% to ...
Tags: Mexico, Ahmsa, Fenix Project
Today, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies president and CEO Andreas Kramvis announced that Honeywell will invest $208 million in new manufacturing projects at its four production sites in Louisiana. The ...
According to South Korean industry news, Kingsun will hold Korea business launching ceremony on the 18th in Seoul. Kingsun founded in 1994, with China's largest lighting R & D center and production base of 300,000 square meters, mainly ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED, Lights
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Next Generation TV Market Insight" report to their offering. LCD manufacturers are experiencing profitability deterioration which can no longer be neglected. As a solution, companies ...
Tags: TV Market, Consumer Electronics
The main Taiwan-based solar cell makers saw capacity utilization rise to 80-100% in the second quarter of 2013 mainly due to strong demand in Japan, according to industry sources. In Japan, Japan-based Sharp and Kyocera have respective ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Solar Energy