Profitability for LED products is shrinking due to continual price drops along with increasing competition, and more than 100 relatively small China-based LED packaging service providers will be forced out of the market in 2014 and the ...
Tags: LED Packaging, LED products
Global in 2015 will double those in 2014, but the corresponding production value will increase only 30% due to estimated price drops of 30-35%, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Europe will account for 23% of the global LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, shipments, Lights
Some Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, faced with price drops and decreased orders arising from the US imposition of preliminary anti-dumping tariffs at an average rate of 24.23%, have plans to relocate production lines ...
Tags: solar cell, Personnel, Lights
China-based LED makers' production capacity expansion in the first half of 2014 has since resulted in oversupply, forcing them to reduce quotes to compete for orders in the fourth quarter. Taiwan-based competitors will follow suit in ...
Following the first Pepro (Equalization Premium Paid to the Producer and/or Cooperative) auction which took place on September 25, stakeholders in the Brazilian cotton market are acting carefully in signing new trades. Brazilian cotton ...
Tags: Brazilian Cotton, Cautious, Textile
More than 80% of China's 63 polysilicon makers stopped production in 2011-2012 due to continual price drops arising from global oversupply. As polysilicon prices have rebounded since the beginning of 2014, a few of them have resumed ...
Tags: polysilicon, polysilicon output
Long held assumptions about the direction and dynamics of the iron ore market have been severely tested in 2014. After hitting a high of $158.90 in February, the industry was jolted on March 10, when iron ore suffered the worst one-day ...
Tags: Iron Ore, raw material
Since the last few days, due to a rise in liquidity, cotton trade in the Brazilian market has started moving at a slightly faster pace, although only small lots are being traded. This scenario is strengthening cotton prices in the ...
Price falls were most evident in China last quarter, according to latest LED bulb retail price reports by LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce. Globally, the 40W equiv. LED bulbs Average Selling Price (ASP) grew incrementally by 0.9 ...
Following cylindrical cells price and volume usage declines, supply and demand for the technology is expected to remain flat in the second quarter of 2014, due to lowered supply coupled with slight demand increases. Additionally, ...
Tags: cylindrical cells, Lithium cell, battery
US shredded steel scrap availability tightened and prices inched up as the June mill procurement period came to a close, market sources said Friday. Mills reentering the market late in the week to acquire additional shredded material ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, shredded material
China's producer price index (PPI) contracted 1.4 percent year on year in May, following a 2-percent decline in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Tuesday. The index edged down 0.1 percent in May from the ...
The global 40W equivalent LED bulb ASP dipped 1.5% in April 2014 to US$14.70, with price decreases most evident in China. Additionally, the global 60W equivalent LED bulb ASP dropped 2.5% to US$20.20, according to LEDinside. "China's ...
Tags: LED Bulb, LED Market
The price of gold weakened on Monday after data showed a crimping of demand from top importer China. On the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, gold futures for June delivery fell through the psychologically important ...
Tags: Gold Price, Housing Market
Cotton prices continue to move down in the Brazilian market, returning to levels observed in November 2013. The low quality of the product available and refrained purchasers have been pressing down values in the domestic market. ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Brazilian market