Johnson & Johnson’s fourth-quarter medical device sales fell by 4.7%, to $6.6 billion, with the biggest drop (7.7%) in the U.S., the company announced this week. Total fourth-quarter sales were down 0.6% year-over-year, to $18.3 ...
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LED Epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar expects its consolidated revenues for December to increase significantly on month mainly due to orders from China-based LCD TV vendors with urgent shipments to meet peak demand before the 2015 ...
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Prices of copper-clad laminates (FCCL) in China are set to fall in 2015 amid increasing competition, according to industry sources. Korea-based FCCL suppliers, which have seen their production utilization rates affected by ...
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For third-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €45.6m, down just 1.3% on €46.2m both last quarter and a year ago. The utilization rates of most tier-one LED chip makers ...
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Stronger demand from China led Taiwanese PV manufacturers to perform better in September than in August. Makers include Tainergy Tech, Motech, Gigasolar and Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) were profitable due to significantly higher ...
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The Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) commented on Monday’s US International Trade Commission (ITC) hearing, the final phase of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey and ...
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Taiwan photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers have received rush orders since the end of August, leading to higher utilization rates and boosting optimism among Taiwan PV producers about demand in September. Yet Chinese demand remains weak as ...
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Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers generally saw orders increase in August, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The sequential increases resulted from the makers reducing quotes to US$0.33/W for polycrystalline models ...
The company’s upholds a positive outlook, having made a production capacity breakthrough in June 2014, lowered costs in 3Q14 and optimized utilization rates and product portfolio. Optimistic about the emerging LED lighting market, ...
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On August 19, the US Department of Commerce announced it had revised the preliminary anti-dumping duty on solar products produced by Motech Industries in Taiwan, causing Motech’s tariff rate to drop from 44.18%, the highest among ...
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For second-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €46.2m, rebounding by 5% from €43.9m last quarter (which had been down 14% on the previous quarter) and up 2% on €45.3m ...
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PV manufacturers are still conservative about market demand even though the result of the US-China anti-dumping preliminary verdict will be announced soon. These circumstances have led to weak PV demand in July 2014 and slow stock clearance ...
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Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 3.5 percent year on year to 334,000 mt in the first half of this year. In the ...
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For second-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $14.5m, up slightly on $14.3m ...
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced its financial results for the second quarter of the current year, indicating that stainless steel demand continued to recover and base prices increased moderately in both Europe ...
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