Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) have plans to increase capacity from the current 38% to 60% in the coming months after receiving a 55,000 ton cargo of iron ore fines from Australia. PSM has been purchasing iron ore from Iran with long term ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production fell 1.6 percent in the week ending March 9, following a 0.8 percent increase a week ago and a 1.6 percent drop the week prior. Total raw steel ...
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Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar has reported February consolidated revenues of NT$1.259 billion (US$42 million), representing an on-month decrease of 6.7% and an on-year decrease of 12.5%. The accumulated revenues for the first two ...
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LED firm Formosa Epitaxy plans to install 12-13 sets of MOCVD equipment before the end of first-quarter 2013 and expects production to begin in the second quarter. Monthly capacity at the firm's Taiwan plant is likely to increase by 50,000 ...
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Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) has reported February consolidated revenues of NT$923 million (US$31 million), representing an on-month increase of 13.6% but an on-year decrease of 0.2%. The accumulated revenues ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar, LED chip packaging house Unity Opto Technology and fellow maker Lextar Electronics have seen orders increase significantly in March, according to the companies. Due to increased orders for LED ...
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Despite a clear market slowdown in Europe, Georg Fischer generated a turnover of CHF 3.6 billion in 2012, 3 percent above the 2011 figure. On a like-for-like basis, sales reached the same level as in 2011. All three divisions both ...
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As the world's economy stages a rebound, the global LED industry is expected to ride the wave of an uptrend in demand, in particular for lighting applications. According to some industry experts , since the beginning of 2013 sales in LED ...
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Ugur Dalbeler, chairman of IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, as well as CEO of Turkish steelmaker Colakoglu Metalurji, has said that in 2013 the main problem in the steel industry will ...
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In 2012, BASF reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 31.7% per metric ton of sales product and increased its energy efficiency by 19.3% compared with baseline 2002. The number of work-related accidents dropped in the same period by 48%. ...
To avoid possible tariffs imposed by China, Europe-based polysilicon firms have been reportedly seeking cooperation with Taiwan-based solar wafer makers. Solar firms noted that the trade war between Europe and China will cast a light on ...
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Lextar, an LED subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO), officially merged with Wellypower, another AUO LED subsidiary, on February 1, 2013. Market observers believe the merger will boost Lextar's revenues in the first quarter, and profits for the ...
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United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) hans announced its China steel market analysis report recently; according to its report, UBS said the current market demand in China has stayed normal but mills' capacity utilization have still stayed at the ...
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Yieh Phui Enterprise (YP), one of the major coating steel mills in Taiwan, has announced its January combining sales revenue was NT$4.819 billion which has risen 8.12% Y-O-Y. Due to the dropping NTD currency, YP has become profitable ...
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The effect of the US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China-made solar cells has been questioned especially when China-based solar firms are now able to buy solar cells from non-China regions and continue to assemble the ...
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