The volume of US natural gas traded during bidweek is poised for its fourth straight year-on-year decline as banks and other large players pull back from the monthly baseload market, according to a Platts examination of ...
Tags: Natural Gas, physical deals
People are forever complaining about how the digital world has robbed them of something or other. Peace. Anonymity. Freedom itself. I just see possibilities. So I've been keen to follow a new kind of connection made possible by the ...
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Since the beginning of April when the Chinese government announced a lower starting auction price, the pace of sales from China’s reserve increased and the Type 328 China Cotton Index (a daily index of prices for domestic cotton ...
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Moody's has changed its outlook for the global shipping industry to stable from negative on April 30. This outlook reflects Moody's expectations for the fundamental business conditions in the industry over the next 12 to 18 months. ...
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DENSO Corp. has announced a significant increase in part number coverage for its line of spark plugs, direct ignition coils and wire sets. The latest catalog (SPIWDIC-CAT-0314), available in print or electronic form, covers 239 million ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Ignition Products
According to Yole Développement's new market research report 'LED Front-End Manufacturing Trends' (which covers substrates, epitaxy, lithography, plasma etching & deposition, PVD and testing), the LED substrate is one of the key ...
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The overall Front-End manufacturing trends for LED manufacturing are following the same path: decrease manufacturing costs, increase yield to improve binning, extract more light per mm² and per watt injected into the die… So all ...
Liquor retailing is growing, and sheltered from supermarket price wars Much has been reported on the battle for consumers' hearts, minds and money by Australia's two biggest supermarket groups, and liquor retailing may yet play a key role ...
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Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
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BASF sponsored and participated in the 2014 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress, April 8-10, at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. As among the leading chemical supplier to the automotive industry, BASF offered ...
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BASF sponsored and participated in the 2014 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress, April 8-10, at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. As among the leading chemical supplier to the automotive industry, BASFoffered ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
German automaker Volkswagen Group is planning to voluntarily recall 26,452 units of 2014 vehicles over a defective O-ring issue in powertrain. The recall includes all the vehicles powered by 1.8L turbocharged engines including the Jetta, ...
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How does the industry define touring tires? We attempted to find out by asking tire manufacturers what they thought. The results are in, and can be found in Modern Tire Dealer's recently published 2014 Performance Handbook. For example, ...
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Researchers at Georgia State University, the University of Leeds and China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a way to use standard semiconductors to detect light over a much broader range of wavelengths, potentially opening up ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
On 18 March at the CS International Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, received the 2014 CS ...
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