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
The Sohar-based aromatic plant of Oman Refineries and Petrochemical Industries Company (Orpic) has attained record levels in benzene and paraxylene production, which has grown by 51 percent as compared to last three year’s average ...
Tags: Textile, Orpic Aromatic Plant
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production fell 3.1 percent in the week ending June 29, following increases in the three prior weeks. The biggest declines were in the Midwest and Great Lakes ...
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International credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has announced that it has raised the long-term corporate credit rating of Turkish steelmaker Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari T.A.S. (Erdemir) to 'B+' from 'B', with the outlook being ...
Tags: Turkey-Based Erdemir, Mineral
It's reported that Standard & Poor's (S&P) has lowered Russian NLMK's long-term corporate credit rating to "BB+" from "BBB-". S&P explained that the downgrade was based on weak global steelmaking and a conservative estimate of the country ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
In recent years there has been a sharp drop in the number of people employed in Zimbabwe’s textile and clothing sector, and the Government is now introducing a cluster based concept to put the industry back on track. Around ...
Tags: Cluster-Based Concept, Textile, Zimbabwe
Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BOI) has disbursed about 60 percent of the N100 billion Textile Revival Fund, according to the bank’s managing director Evelyn Oputu. Ms. Oputu, who is currently attending the 20th Anniversary ...
LED chip packaging house Bright Led Electronics has landed orders for one billion infrared LED sensor modules worth NT$2 billion (US$66.7 million) through a China-based maker of LED whiteboards, with shipments to be finished in two years, ...
Tags: Bright LED, Bright LED Electronics sensor, Bright LED Electronics
The chairman of Unity Opto, Qinghui Wu, expressed on June 21 that all the LED plants are profitable this year because the capacity utilization has almost reached a high standard and the decline in value has reached a stage; the lighting ...
Tags: Unity Opto, LED Industry, Lighting Equipment, Greatest Driver Growth, LED
According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in May this year the crude steel output of 63 countries surveyed across the globe reached 136.3 million mt, increasing by 2.6 percent on year-on-year basis and up 3.2 percent compared ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral, Steel
Everlight announced on June 18 that its LED Lamp Beads receive certifications of four major international lighting brands, and it will enter the OEM system, it is expected that Everlight LED lighting will be doubled this year, the sales in ...
South Korea-based TV makers hope to further reduce the cost of direct-lit LED TVs by using fewer LED chips in backlight modules, hence the firms hope LED packaging houses can increase the wattage of the packaging to 1.2W per chip. This ...
Tags: LED Packaging, Lights
According to reports, Bingjie Li, the chairman of Epistar stated on June 9 that Epistar considers terminating the cooperation with Luminus Devices purchased by Sanan at $ 22 million a few days ago. In recent years, Epistar has being faced ...
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Fengzheng Su, the chairman of Ronda, said on June 9 that the demands for LED lighting and backlighting are good, pushing up capacity utilization to be remained at high, the revenue is expected to be higher quarterly in this year, and its ...
Tags: Ronda, LED Lighting
Global MOCVD equipment capacity is still in oversupply while prices of LED light bulbs continue to fall. Among all global operational MOCVD tools, Taiwan-based makers account for 28.1% and China-based firms 22.3%, according Digitimes ...
Tags: LED, light bulbs