US chlor-alkali plants operated at 84% of capacity in February, data released Tuesday by the Chlorine Institute showed. The operating rate was down two percentage points from January. The trade association said US chlor-alkali producers ...
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US raw steel production picked up 1.6% week on week as steelmaking in the Great Lakes bounced up 4.4%, American Iron and Steel Institute data released Tuesday showed. In the week ended March 1, US mills produced 1.861 million st of raw ...
Wearable devices have stolen the show at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, according to Chinese-language United Evening News. Companies including Samsung, LG, Sony, and Huawei Device have all showcased their wearable designs at ...
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US raw steel production edged up last week, as the industry's capability utilization rose to 77%, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. The 77% capability utilization during the week ended Saturday, February 15, was up from ...
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US raw steel production climbed 1.9% last week on robust growth in Southern steel output, American Iron and Steel Institute data published Monday showed. In the week ended Saturday, US mills produced 1.839 million st, up 1.9% from the ...
Sysco, one of the major coating steel mills in Taiwan, said the company's orders has been full booked until the end of February, 2014 and the company's current monthly production quantity which included galvanized, galvalume and pre-painted ...
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Taiwanese LED package manufacturer Edison Opto consolidated revenue for Dec. 2013 reached NT$ 209 million (US$ 6.95 million), a decrease of 2.09 percent compared to last month. However, the company's Dec. 2013 revenue has soared 50.1 ...
Chinese LED chip manufacturers are conservative towards expansion, according to the Commercial Times. Forepi and Genesis Photonics Inc. (GPI) have temporarily stopped introducing new MOCVD units for 2014 and are aiming to increase ...
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Iron ore prices could continue to trade above $130/dry mt CFR North China in the first quarter of 2014, after higher-than-expected steel production in China supported them last year, Macquarie analysts said Thursday. "We believe Q1 2014 ...
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Of the 1,093 million lb of feedstocks used to produce biodiesel in October, 50.41% was soybean oil, a 1.21 percentage point decline from September, US Energy Information Administration data showed Monday. Soybean oil remained the largest ...
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Sapphire wafer maker Tera Xtal Technology expects global supply of sapphire wafers to be short beginning the first quarter of 2014 due to increasing use in smartphones and other mobile devices. The company currently has a monthly ...
The Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) has in 2013 achieved its highest monthly production of methanol since its inception, which amounted to 1,254 metric tons, GPCI president Abdulrahman Jawahery revealed during the ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy expects flip chip LED components for use in lighting and LCD TV backlighting to account for 15-20% of its 2014 consolidated revenues, according to company chairman Frank Chien. Formosa ...
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Epoxy Molding Compound (EMC) lead frames have high thermal resistance, Ultraviolet (UV) resistance, high electric voltage conductivity, and resistance to yellowing. They offer a new choice for LED package manufactures that are continuously ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has announced it will increase its investments in two China subsidiaries: an additional US$34 million for United LED (Shan Dong), which it owns a 60% stake, in northern China; and US$20 million for ...
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