According to Taiwan's Photonic Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), multiple factors such as low prices, falling demand in Europe and continuous incentive cuts caused the solar industry to see falling output value in ...
Tags: Taiwan, PIDA, solar industry, 2013
According to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, in January this year the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 77.4 percent, falling 1.9 percentage points ...
India's largest steelmaker JSW Steel (JSW) has announced its latest financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months ended December 31 of the financial year 2012-13. In the third quarter, JSW's crude steel production ...
Tags: Steel, Reduced Profit, Lower Capacity, Mineral
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that US raw steel production rose 0.3 percent in the week ending January 19, following a 3.6 percent increase the previous week. Total raw steel production in the United States ...
Unifi, Inc. released preliminary operating results for its second fiscal quarter ended December 23, 2012. The Company reported net income of $2.4 million, or $0.12 per share, compared to a net loss of $7.6 million, or $0.38 per share, for ...
Tags: Unifi, second fiscal quarte, profits
According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in 2012 the crude steel output of 64 countries surveyed across the globe reached 1.55 billion mt, increasing by 1.2 percent on year-on-year basis, hitting a new record for global crude ...
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According to the monthly statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers' Association (OSD), in 2012 motor vehicle sales in Turkey totaled 817,620 units, falling by 10.2 percent as compared to 2011. The contraction of the ...
ASPs in the LED market fell 20-30% in 2012. LED makers believe the price fall for LED lighting products will be relatively significant compared to the price fall of backlighting products in 2013. In addition, the price for 60W retrofit LED ...
Tags: LED, Lighting Chips, Prices, 2013
Various countries have banned the use of incandescent light bulbs, paving the way for LED lighting to shine. However, due to numerous newcomers in China taking up massive capacity expansion, the LED market has been in severe oversupply, ...
Tags: 2013, Opportunities, Risks, LED Lighting
The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has stated that in early January (Jan. 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1,674,900 mt, up 3.8 percent ...
Tags: crude steel output, crude steel, Iron, Steel
Insteel Industries, Inc. reported Thursday net earnings of $2.4 million, or $0.13 per diluted share for Q1 of fiscal 2013 compared with a net loss of $0.2 million in the same period a year ago. Insteel said that its financial results for ...
Tags: Insteel reports, Insteel Industries, welded wire reinforcement
US Federal Reserve data Wednesday showed that industrial production increased 0.3 percent in December after having risen 1.0 percent in November when production rebounded in the industries that had been negatively affected by Hurricane ...
LED packaging house Everlight Electronics is currently showcasing new LED packaging products with the focus being white LED and automobile lighting at the Lighting Japan 2013 exhibition. According to Robert Yeh, chairman of Everlight, the ...
Tags: LED, Everlight Electronics, LED packaging products, 2013
Tung Ho Steel, one of the major electric furnace mills and steel long products suppliers in Northern Taiwan announced that its sales revenues in the fourth quarter of 2012 totaled NT$8.631 billion, up slightly from a quarter ago. The ...
Tags: Steel, steel products, rebar
After a disastrous third quarter of 2012 featuring extremely low factory utilization rates across the entire solar supply chain, a surge in demand was seen in the final quarter of the year for solar modules. A new solar module shipment ...
Tags: third quarter, 2012, solar supply chain