Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that during first-quarter 2015 it received multiple new long-term purchase orders worth up to $3m for its antimonide substrate materials. The purchase orders are from ...
Tags: Infrared Products, LEDs
After slipping below the 100-point mark indicating business optimism in December, the Global Purchasing Index surged 19% to a reading of 118 in January as buyers of electronic components reported better business conditions at the start of ...
Tags: electronic components, GPI, Electronics
Belgian manufacturer ThermoFlexX, a part of Xeikon Prepress, has installed its first ThermoFlexX 80-S imager in Europe at digital flexo platemaking company AtoutFlex. The equipment is capable of exposing plates up to 1,270 x 2,032 mm at ...
The latest data from the Australian Industry Group (AIG) Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) indicates that Australia's manufacturing sector has contracted for the third month in a row, and that subdued domestic demand is ...
Activity in China's services sector grew modestly in February as new orders rose at their quickest pace in three months, a private survey showed just a few days after the central bank cut interest rates to stimulate the world's ...
Tags: HSBC Services, PMI
After slipping below the 100-point mark indicating business optimism in December, the Global Purchasing Index surged 19% to a reading of 118 in January as buyers of electronic components reported better business conditions at the start of ...
Tags: Electronics Industry, Electronics
With China- and Taiwan-based suppliers eager to expand their presence, prices of fingerprint sensors are likely to fall below US$5 in 2015, according to industry sources. Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, FocalTech Systems, Egis ...
Tags: Fingerprint Sensor, Sensor
A gauge of growth in the dominant U.S. services sector fell short of expectations for December, hitting a six-month low as indexes on employment, orders and business activity all declined. The FTSE 100 index was down 0.4 percent at 1209 ...
Tags: services sector, GDP growth
Rumours of a 4-inch iPhone 6 ‘Mini’ edition have now come into question as supply chain sources cast doubt over the chatter. Over the past few months we’ve heard from the grapevine that Apple has been setting up to ...
Tags: iPhone, mini, Consumer Electronics
Chinese manufacturers signalled weaker growth momentum at the end of 2014, fresh evidence of headwinds facing the Chinese economy, a recent HSBC report showed. After adjusting for seasonal factors, the HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index ...
Tags: Manufacturing Activity
Itema S.p.A, a producer of advanced weaving machinery participated in the recently concluded textile technology trade fair, ITMACH 2014 held in Gandhinagar, in Gujarat, India. Itema was also one of the sponsors of “India – ...
Tags: rapier, airjet, projectile, Textilec
Food manufacturing was one of four manufacturing sub-sectors to expand in November 2014, according to the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI). Food manufacturing expansion Among the ...
Tags: Dairy Products, beverages, tobacco
China's non-manufacturing sector activity showed a slight improvement in November, as new export orders and employment added stabilizers to the economy. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector came in at 53.9 ...
Tags: Service Sector, PMI
According to data released by the three largest economy contraction yesterday,encumbered by the weak manufacturing in Germany, France and Italy, the eurozone manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) November final value fell to 50.1, ...
Tags: Manufacturing PMI
YoungTek Electronics, which provides backend services for LED and IC testing and sorting, is expected to post an up to 10% sequential decrease in fourth-quarter revenues due to a seasonal slowdown in demand, according to market watchers. ...
Tags: LED testing, IC sorting, Lights