Turkey's October imports of bituminous thermal coal rose to an all-time monthly high of 2.921 million mt, following record shipments of Colombian and Russian coal, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). October ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, coking coal
Utilities are burning less coal than they previously expected, a survey the US Surface Transportation Board conducted shows. During a Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington, committee member John Carr, ...
Tags: natural gas, Coal Generation
The global market for application processors (AP) will rise 8.54% in 2016, according to Digitimes Research. Growth of demand for applications such as automotive electronics and smartwatches will outperform that for smartphones. The global ...
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Domestic demand to solar PV products in Japan dropped in the second quarter of fiscal year 2015 (2015 July to September), leading to domestic PV shipment decrease. JPEA reported an annual PV module shipment decline in the quarter, and the ...
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Global LED shipments in 2016 will increase 20-30% on year in volume and about 5% in value, Nichia's chief legal and IP officer Katsuyuki Akutagawa said at a press event in Taipei on November 25. Nichia finished development of direct ...
Tags: LED Shipment, LED backlighting
Lost revenue and frustrated customers are all too common for Australian SME who don’t successfully manage post and shipping services at Christmas, research commissioned by FedEx Express has found. The poll of 1,000 consumers and 400 ...
Tags: Christmas, online shopping, shipping
Seaborne iron ore prices reached a new historic low Tuesday as the Platts 62% Fe Iron Ore Index, or IODEX, lost $0.75/dmt on the day to reach $44/dmt CFR North China. It is the lowest point the IODEX has been since Platts' began spot ...
Tags: Seaborne iron ore, steel, ore
Turkish export ferrous scrap saw a small decrease on Tuesday as a quiet market pressured against steady offer levels. Merchants this week have placed offers solidly at $195/mt, though no trades or counteroffers have been heard. "There ...
Tags: ferrous scrap, Mills
A shipment of ethanol from Brazil left Santos on November 21 and is due to land in Dunkirk, France December 7, according to Platts' trade flow software cFlow. The Chemroad Hope is carrying a combination of 2,500 cum of neutral ethanol, ...
Tags: ethanol, T2 ethanol, neutral ethanol
Coal shipment volumes originated on US railroads were slightly up from the previous week but still subdued, Association of American Railroads data showed Wednesday. For the week ended November 14, the AAR reported a total of 95,293 coal ...
Tags: Coal, coal carloads
Dalrymple Bay coal terminal's exports to India slumped dramatically in October to just 266,700 mt compared with 873,500 mt in September and an on-month decline of 228%, according to shipping data for the Australian terminal released ...
Tags: coal, thermal coal, metallurgical coal
The sluggish growth of the mono-Si market this year is notable given the fact that many cell manufacturers had switched from multi-Si to mono-Si production in the second half of 2014. Statistical research conducted by EnergyTrend for the ...
Tags: Mono-Si Market, mono-Si cell
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA, which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has launched seven new products – four new power amplifiers and three ...
Tags: Qorvo, small-cell, Power Amplifiers, Duplexer
Toshiba has announced the development of the next-generation TarfSOI (Toshiba advanced RF silicon-on-insulator) process, optimized for radio-frequency (RF) switch applications. Sample shipments of a new SP12T (single-pole 12-throw switch) ...
Tags: Toshiba, SOI-CMOS, RF switches
The market for wearables has maintained a certain growth level in recent years, though device vendors have not experienced a boom in demand as they would hope. The total wearable device shipments in 2015 are estimated at 68.1 million units, ...
Tags: Smart Bracelets, smartwatches