FALLING demand for bottled beer has hit hard glass manufacturing firm, Zimbabwe Glass Industries (Zimglass) after its main customer Delta reduced orders for bottles, an official has said. Delta last week reported depressed lager sales, 10 ...
Tags: Zimbabwe Glass, Construction Glass
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Fuji Electric Corp of America have been developing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cell structures in efforts to extend the conversion efficiency of multi-junction photovoltaic (PV) ...
Tags: Nitride Barriers, Electrical
Shimano's latest entry into the e-bike powertrain market takes aim at Bosch with a center-drive motor that will be introduced in Europe in 2014. Called STEPS—the name given to the first group it launched in 2010—an acronym for ...
Tags: Transportation
According to a new report from Fuel Cell Today, a London-based market intelligence firm, annual global fuel cell shipments increased by 86% between 2011 and 2012. Shipments for transport-related fuel cells, which includes battery ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Material Handling Applications
Prices for solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers have risen to US$0.94/wafer due to tight supply, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) has cited Taiwan-based maker Gigastorage as indicating. Gigastorage has received orders ...
Tags: Solar-Grade Silicon, Energy
A fire broke out at a storage building affiliated with Schluter-Systems’ Plattsburgh, N.Y., operations on Saturday, Nov. 9. No one was injured as a result of the fire. The storage building, which is a separate building from the ...
Tags: Schluter-Systems, NY, storage, building, destroyed, fire
In the January-October period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China (from a total of 80 shipbuilding enterprises) amounted to 34.80 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 25.4 percent year on year, according to the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Designer Furniture Warehouse here has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with plans to close all but one of its 10 stores. In its petition filed Nov. 13, the retailer listed assets and debts both in the $1 million to $10 million ...
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Furniture Store Performance RportMotion upholstery, occasional tables, youth bedroom and outdoor furniture now account for a greater portion of furniture store sales, according to Furniture/Today's exclusive Furniture Store Performance ...
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Intense Cycles is offering new extended payment terms of up to 120 days for U.S. dealers via a partnership with GE Capital Commercial Distribution Finance. "We are really excited to be able to offer this program. Our bikes have never been ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Specializing in the LED automotive lighting niche market and LED commercial lighting market, Laster Tech has benefitted from the continued growth of the Chinese automotive market. With more and more automobiles utilizing LED lights, the LED ...
Tags: Laster 2013, LED Automotive Market
United Mechanical and Electrical Co. (United M&E) invested RMB 320 million (US $53.33 million) in an offshore energy efficient, environmental, and clean energy project. Subsidiaries Zhejiang United Mechanical and Electrical Co. and Insigma ...
Tags: LED, LED Street Light, Lights, Lighting
If October is truly the month that sets the tone for the holiday shopping season, then data from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, might portend a positive season's greetings ...
One of the main factors affecting the Spanish cotton sector is the difficulty of access to credit and financing for cotton production in the country, and the lack of measures to support the industry in general, especially in terms of ...
Tags: Lack of Credit, Cotton Sector
As reported by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the total price-adjusted value of new orders received by building construction and civil and underground engineering enterprises in Germany increased by 5.6 percent in ...
Tags: Construction