In view of fast growing demand for LED lighting in the US, the largest China-based LED packaging service provider MLS has expanded monthly production capacity of LED light bulbs and tubes to 10 million units, while Taiwan-based Unity Opto ...
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Following the use of sapphire to make covers for the home button and camera of the iPhone 5, China- and South Korea-based smartphone vendors are considering the adoption of sapphire, and therefore the application in smartphones is likely to ...
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Sapphire maker Tera Xtal Technology will expand its PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) monthly production capacity from 100,000 units currently to 200,000 units by the end of 2014 due to fast growing demand for LED lighting, according to a ...
US production of biomass-based diesel in June surged 4.42 million gallons from May to a 2014-high of 149.079 million gallons, US Environmental Protection Agency data showed Friday. Biomass-based diesel production totaled 779.9 million ...
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The US steel industry hit a new 2014 high for capability utilization last week, when raw steel production climbed to 79.8% from 78.7% the week before, according to American Iron and Steel Institute data released Monday. The previous high ...
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Tetra Pak has upgraded its packaging material plant in Ponta Grossa, Brazil to meet its products’ demands in domestic and export markets. The €65m upgrade will increase the plant's packaging capacity by 70% to 13 billion ...
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Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) is to issue 174.612 million new shares (worth NT$10 each, totalling NT$1746.12m) to acquire fellow Taiwanese LED epiwafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc ...
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LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics began flip-chip LED shipments to China-, South Korea- and Japan-based vendors in the fourth quarter of 2013 and aims to increase the revenue proportion from 15% for the first half of 2014 ...
US chlor-alkali facilities operated at 86% capacity in May, according to data released Friday by the Chlorine Institute, the highest effective operating rate since the 87% seen in May 2013. May 2014's operating rate represented a ...
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There were 1,917 MOCVD sets in operation globally in May 2014 and Taiwan-based LED makers accounted for 28.6% of the number, followed by Japan-based makers with 23.8%, China-based makers with 22.9%, and South Korea-based makers with 14.1%, ...
US chlor-alkali facilities operated at 81% capacity in April, Chlorine Institute data showed Tuesday. The effective operational rates were unchanged from March, when they showed a 2 percentage-point drop from 83% in February. The March ...
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The UK could see its first increase in offshore oil output in over a decade this year and the start of a slight recovery, BP regional vice president for Europe, Peter Mather, said Tuesday. His comments were balanced by a longer-term ...
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US chlor-alkali plants operated at 81% of capacity in March, the lowest rate since October's level of 79%, data released Wednesday by the Chlorine Institute showed. The operating rate was down two percentage points from February. The ...
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Data from Automobile Association data showed a slight overall growth in the domestic commercial vehicle market. In January 2014, the monthly production of 70 companies in the auto market was 2,051,665, an increase of 4.44%, and the ...
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Steel production in the US Great Lakes region tumbled 6.8% last week after falling 9.8% the week before, the American Iron and Steel Institute reported Monday. The Great Lakes region produced 565,000 st of steel in the week ended ...