Osram Opto Semiconductors can pack up to 20 blue laser chips in the new PLPM4 450 module. Instead of taking the laborious approach and constructing a light source from individual laser diodes, it is now possible to reduce the complexity of ...
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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 ...
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Taiwan-based polycrystalline silicon solar cell makers, due to increasing price competition from China-based makers, plan to increase or step into production of monocrystalline models, which are relatively profitable, according to PV ...
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The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in late June (June 21-30) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China - all CISA members - totaled 1.778 million ...
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Brazil's motor vehicle output in June this year decreased by 23.3 percent from the previous month and fell by 33.3 percent year on year to 215,934 units (excluding agricultural vehicles), according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle ...
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In June this year, Argentina's auto production (including commercial vehicles) decreased by 0.1 percent compared to May and by 19.8 percent year on year, amounting to 50,904 units, according to the report released by country's auto ...
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In the first half of the current year, Ukraine's coal mining output decreased by 0.5 percent year on year to 40.577 million mt, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry. In the meantime, in the first six months of this ...
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Evraz UGOK (Southern Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise), a subsidiary of Russian mining and steel producing company Evraz Group, has announced that in June this year its iron ore concentrate production increased by 7.3 percent year on ...
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In Sweden, industrial production decreased by 3.2 percent in May this year compared to April and by 2.2 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the production index ...
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Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), plans to increase its production in the current month. In particular, in July DMKD plans to ...
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Prices of imported iron ore in China have continued to decline since the start of the summer, while domestic crude steel output is still at high levels amid increases in steel exports, though domestic demand for steel products has remained ...
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German automobile producer BMW has announced that it will invest $1 billion in its first production plant in Mexico, which is to be built in close proximity to the city of San Luis Potosí. BMW board member Harald Kruger said the new ...
In the January-June period this year, Ukraine-based Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, saw a 10.6 percent decrease in its crude steel production to 2.040 million mt and a 17.3 ...
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Brazil's national statistics agency (IBGE) has reported that in May this year industrial production in the largest Latin American country decreased by 0.6 percent compared to April, declining for the third consecutive month on ...
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Russkaya Stal (Russian Steel), a non-prot association of Russian domestic steelmakers, has reported that its main member enterprises produced 4.77 million mt of finished steel in May this year, up 2.5 percent from April and also increasing ...
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