Front end fab equipment spending is expected to be flat this year at $31.7bn , says SEMI, with an increase of 24% next year. Fab equipment spending for 17nm and below is expected to kick off in 2013 and increase by a factor of 2.4 to ...
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According to Rene Ritchie, an analyst of market analysis agency iMore, Apple will launch a new version of the iPad tablet computer in April. Allegedly, the new version of iPad 5 will be thinner and lighter. Ritchie has been one of the ...
In the last session of the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, suppliers and producers of long steel products and billet, as well as traders and raw material suppliers shared the conclusions ...
Tags: rebar, wire, raw material
Speaking at the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, Yusuf Guven from Helveco Intertrade, the chairman of the raw materials committee, said that China has started destocking steel products, ...
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Michael Setterdahl from Nucor, chairman of the traders' committee at the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, stated that it was the view of traders' committee that customers worldwide currently ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting taking place on March 3-5 in Doha, Adel Al-Mughram, senior marketing manager at Saudi Arabian company SABIC, underlined that oil is critical of Saudi Arabia and crude ...
A number of positive signs are starting to emerge regarding the U.S. economy, but there remain political and global headwinds that could slow growth, according to a new report. The Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation ...
Tags: Manufacturers, Manufacturing production, Manufacturing
In the 2012 financial year the flooring group Tarkett increased its turnover by 11% to €2.318bn. Organic growth (+4.6%), acquisitions (+3.6%) and favourable exchange rate influences (+2.8%) constituted some of the reasons for the ...
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Usinas, the Brazilian steelmaker, is going to increase its steel prices for distributors by 12% next month. The new price adjustment will apply to some steel products and ranges from 6% to 12%. The policy of price up is expected to ...
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China's ZTE debuted a smartphone with a 5.7-in. screen dubbed the Grand Memo at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday. It's a follow up to its 5-in. Grand S smartphone that the company introduced at CES last month. To see the Grand ...
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16.2%: that’s the size of the gender pay gap, or the average difference between women and men’s hourly earnings across the EU, according to the latest figures released today by the European Commission. The news comes ahead of ...
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The so-called "Internet of everything," the rapidly approaching world where objects from refrigerators to factory robots can talk to people and other machines, will create a massive business opportunity worth $14.4 trillion over the next ...
Tags: Cisco, Internet, smart energy grid
ARM will take 68% of the embedded processor market in 2016 – up from 60% today, says IDC IDC expects the embedded processor market will grow 23% between 2012-16 to reach $47.3bn. That represents 3.65bn embedded processors to be ...
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It is reported that China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest steelmaker in Taiwan has received more than 2.7 million tons of order volumes for the first quarter of this year, which is about 5%~8% higher than the received orders in the fourth ...
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It’s reported that the Argentina Steel Chamber (CAA) predicted that the country’s steel consumption and demand might rise by at least 5% year on year in 2013. According to the forecast made by CAA, the country’s flat ...
Tags: steel demand, flat steel, steel