Veeco Instruments has announced lower revenues in the last quarter of 2011 despite new tool orders from Taiwan and Korea. Aixtron has partnered with a financial firm to provide leasing options on MOCVD equipment. Aixtron offers MOCVD ...
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Steel demand worldwide is growing slower than forecast, eroding profit at producers including ArcelorMittal and Tata Steel Ltd. (TATA) and forcing investors to revise their 2012 outlook for the $430 billion industry. Global use of the alloy ...
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Reporting Quarter 3 Group results reflecting 3.9% sales growth in local currencies, Bossard Group warns of clear indications of a general slowdown of growth as well as declining PMIs worldwide. Positive growth rates in local currencies were ...
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Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) posted fourth- quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates and said Wall Street projections for this year were too conservative, lifting the stock market and bolstering expectations the world economy will ...
Sany Heavy Industry Co. (600031), headed by China’s richest man, and a partner will pay 360 million euros ($475 million) for concrete-pump maker Putzmeister Holding GmbH to add technology and expand overseas. The Chinese ...
Cree’s LED-component revenue fell in the last quarter compared with the previous year, and the company is delaying its conversion to 150-mm wafer manufacturing in order to increase its factory utilization rate. LED lighting ...
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Cree Inc, a maker of LED lighting, reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and also gave a forecast for the current period that fell short of analysts' estimates, sending its shares down more than 5 percent. Fierce competition ...
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Recently, LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs has reported its fiscal first-quarter 2012 (to end-November 2011) revenue. The company has reported revenue of $6.75m, down 48% on $13m a year ago but rebounding 27% from $5.3m last quarter ...
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NCB Capital, Saudi Arabia’s largest asset manager, expects the Saudi cement sector to continue witnessing strong demand in 2012, led mainly by government projects. The new NCB Capital report analysing the Saudi cement sector noted ...
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German machine tool maker Gildemeister AG, parent of sales and service organisation DMG, has reported both orders and sales up year on year for the first nine months of the year, by 49% and 39% respectively. As of 30 September 2011, order ...
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Glencore International Plc, the largest publicly traded commodities company, reported record third-quarter output of thermal coal and a 33 percent jump in copper, saying it has the funds to spur further expansion. Coal used in power ...
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ReneSola, a China-based solar firm, has reported a sharp decline in its third-quarter 2011 revenues. Net revenues for the quarter came to US$189.1 million, down 24.2% on quarter and 47.3% on year. ReneSola indicated the net revenues ...
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Canadian Solar, a China-based solar firm, has announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2011 was US$499.6 million, up 3.7% from US$481.8 million for the second quarter ...
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Trina Solar, a China-based integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2011. Net ...
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SemiLEDs has released its not so bright financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, ended August 31, 2011. According to the company ,revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $5.3 million, a 54% decrease from $11.5 ...
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