New car registrations in the UK have increased 12.7% to 162,228 units in July 2013 and are expected to reach 2.216 million units this year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Registrations of ...
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Cadbury India, a unit of US-based snacks company Mondelez International, plans to establish a new chocolate manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh, India, with an initial investment of more than INR10bn ($163m). The new plant will be ...
For second-quarter 2013, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for ...
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Following declines of 45% in 2011 and 30% in 2013, LED wafer fab equipment spending will rise 17% to nearly $1.2bn in 2014 as the LED industry is working through its over-capacity problems and will renew capital spending and capacity ...
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Global sales of fiber optic circulators to reach $230 million in 2013, $313m in 2017, says analyst The global sales value of fiber optic circulators in optical communications will grow at an average annual rate of 8.4 percent, from ...
Tags: Optical Circulator, Healthy Growth
Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA says that, on the basis of preliminary financial results, it expects to report revenue of about $266m for its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 28 ...
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Transparency Market Research adds new "Glass Packaging Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019" market research report to its report store. Glass packaging has been ...
Tags: Glass Packaging, Packaging, Construction
Shimano's overall sales through June were $1.4 billion (133.1 billion yen), up from $1.3 billion (123.6 billion yen) over the first six months last year. And the company's bike business continues to dominate Shimano's good news: bicycle ...
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WESTEC, the leading West Coast manufacturing event, returns to California amidst an encouraging environment that has seen a measurable increase in exports, production, overall employment growth, and recent legislation designed to enhanced ...
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Accelerated development of new construction and infrastructure projects is driving glass industry growth for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, according to an Aug. 4 Albawaba Business article. New high-rise construction continues to ...
Tags: glass, low-emissivity glass, Construction, Decoration
New owner of Lotus, Malaysian manufacturing group DRB-Hicom, has committed to adding 100 employees to the British brand’s operations including 45 engineers, 40 manufacturing operatives and 18 graduates. The expansion comes one month ...
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The GCC glass industry is witnessing a period of unprecedented growth driven by a significant acceleration in new construction and infrastructure projects announced by regional governments. According to the UK-based Bowmedia Group’s ...
Oil prices surged on Thursday as economic data around the globe added optimism to economic growth. In the week ending July 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial jobless benefits claims decreased 19,000 to 326, 000, the ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Global Growth Optimism
The Spanish company Jeanologia, world leader in the development of sustainable technologies for finishing garments, and its partner in China, Prosperity Textile, have launched a sustainable technology Demo Centre in Guangzhou (China) to ...
BASF increased sales by 3% in the second quarter of 2013 to just under €18.4 billion thanks to higher sales volumes in all segments. Income from operations (EBIT) before special items decreased by 5% to around €1.8 billion. In the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration