Even today some 3 to 4% of the glass produced worldwide is used in the solar industry. With average annual growth rates of 20% to 25% this proportion is set to rise consistently. Despite price dumping and excess capacities the prospects for ...
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PPG Industries reported third quarter 2012 net sales of $3.8 billion. Net income for the quarter was $339 million, including nonrecurring charges. Adjusted net income for the quarter, excluding the nonrecurring charges, was $348 million. ...
Tags: PPG Industries, automotive OEM, refinish coatings, Performance Coatings
From January to September, the private investment in fixed assets reached 15,941.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.1 percent (actual increase was 23.4 percent after deducting price factors), remained at the same level over the ...
Tags: Economy, China, Economy Statistics, Investment
Computerworld-Verizon Wireless'Share Everything plan,introduced in June,has helped boost the average Verizon wireless phone bill by 6.5%to$145 a month. That bill increase,reported in third-quarter results on Thursday,helped Verizon ...
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Lenovo has become the world's top supplier of PCs, according to the latest market data from Gartner. Lenovo took the top spot for worldwide PC shipments for the first time in its history, with its global share increasing to 15.7%, putting ...
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Premier Sean Chen announced yesterday(Sept.26)that the basic hourly pay will be raised to NT$109,up from NT$103 now,effective Jan.1,next year.Meanwhile,the basic monthly pay will be enhanced to NT$19,047,on the premise that GDP growth ...
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According to the recently released Strategy Analytics and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service(GaAs)Forecast and Outlook'GaAs Industry Forecast:2011-2016',the overall gallium arsenide device market grew by 6%to a record$5.2bn in ...
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Strategies Unlimited is forecasting a flat LED lighting market for 2012 relative to 2011, with growth in retail and industrial/commercial lighting offset by contraction in retrofit lamps, as reported by VRINDA BHANDARKAR, ...
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I. The Sales Prices of Newly Constructed Residential Buildings (excluding affordable housing) (See Table II) Comparing with the previous month, among 70 medium and large-sized cities, the sales prices of newly constructed residential ...
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The Austrian timber industry association believes Austria’s sawmills lost considerable market shares on export markets for softwood lumber in 2012. At the press conference at the 52nd “Internationale Holzmesse” in ...
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Much of Europe is now in the midst of an economic downturn,which is likely to plunge the region into its second recession in four years. But most of Europe's large and even medium-sized coating companies,as well as many of their raw ...
Tags: A Double-Dip Recession, Economic Downturn, The Coatings Sector
World clothing export growth in 2012 is predicted to be even slower in volume terms than the already modest 5% growth rate seen in 2011, according to a report in the latest issue of Global Apparel Markets, which is published quarterly by ...
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Kyma's GaN crystal growth system is based on the hydride vapor phase epitaxy(HVPE)growth process which is a proven high growth rate approach for producing high purity crystalline compound semiconductor materials including GaN,GaAs,InP,and ...
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The German Furniture Industry Federation (VDM) is still working from the assumption that furniture manufacturers can achieve the growth of 3% in sales forecasted at the beginning of 2012 for the year as a whole. This was reported by the VDM ...
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Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University has made a first demonstration of nitride semiconductor high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) grown on silicon substrates using ammonia molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) rather than the ...
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