Haiti’s apparel sector has just got a shot in the arm. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has decided to invest $4 million to help The Willbes Haitian S.A., a subsidiary of South Korea-based ...
Tags: apparel manufacture, IFC, knits, sweaters, woven products, microfibers
The share of total global solar photovoltaic (PV) production capacity taken by conventional crystalline silicon (x-Si) solar technologies is forecasted to decline further, from 84.7% in 2014 to 78.4% by 2019, as they approach their ...
Although many brand vendors have launched wearable products, orders for wearable devices may not be sufficient to drive growth for related component suppliers. The vendors have many different devices and each of them needs only a small ...
Tags: Wearable Devices, Smartphone, Mobile Device
China auto association downgrades growth rate China's vehicle sales plunged deeper in June, forcing the country's leading auto organization to slash the industry's estimated growth rate. Statistics from the China Association of ...
Tags: vehicle sales, vehicle industry
Despite buying a little more than 500,000 mt of scrap in the first three months of this year, China is dominating the steel scrap market, according to the latest Bureau of International Recycling World Mirror on ferrous metals. China ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Steel Scrap
The premier event for Asia composites industry will hold its 8th annual session at the SUNTEC Center in Singapore October 20-22, 2015. Its main theme will be Business Opportunities in Asia. “Today, Asia represents almost 50% of the ...
Tags: JEC Asia 2015, composites market
Many Chinese prefer to spend more money to get healthcare and treatment overseas. And the number has increased to 40 million in the past 6 years. In 2013, they spent $48.3 billion on overseas healthcare. More and more Chinese pay visits ...
Tags: healthcare, treatment, medical device
Laura Ashley has made the decision to acquire a commercial property in Singapore for around 31.1million pound, the process of which is expected to be completed in four week's time. In line with the company's long-term expansion strategy, ...
Vietnam’s textile and garment industry attracted a majority of the biggest foreign direct investment (FDI) projects approved in the first six months of this year though many provinces had earlier announced they would keep away from ...
Tags: textile fashion, FDY project, garment
The PEFC leaders’ summit, recently held in London, encouraged consumers to buy day‐to‐day products carrying the PEFC ‘two trees’ label. The summit discussed the challenges and possible solutions to ...
Tags: PEFC, two trees label, engineered material
Australian thermal coal shippers such as BHP Billiton, Glencore, Peabody Energy and Rio Tinto may potentially have to wait until June 2017 for China to eliminate its 6% tariff on imports of Australian thermal coal, the Australian government ...
Tags: Import Tariff, Thermal Coal
It is often assumed that emerging-economy living standards are bound to converge with those in developed countries. But, leaving aside some oil exporters and the city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore, only three countries and regions ...
Tags: emerging economy, financial crisis
Researchers in South Korea have used electrochemical potentiostatic activation (EPA) to alter the hydrogen content in p-type gallium nitride (GaN) layers with a view to improved performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [June Key Lee et ...
Tags: GaN layers, P-Gallium Nitride
China is adopting a more welcoming attitude toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a US-led free-trade agreement now being negotiated by 12 countries, the official media has reported. Zhang Jianping, director of the department of ...
Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership, FTAAP
Now most water purifier faucets are ordinary faucets, or bathroom faucets. This is a unique called ARC elegant faucet, it brings a new experience for the daily clean drinking water use. Streamline design with pure and simple, flexible ...