University of Technology Sydney (UTS) industrial design student Jose Navarro's design for a rice dispenser box walked off with the coveted top prize at the annual Cormack Innovation Awards, which took place at a gala event in Sydney's ...
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India-based United Breweries Group is seeking a buyer for its residual 4% stake in United Spirits worth Rs 22bn ($331m) to repay its loans. The development may also see its chairman Vijay Mallya quit his position in United Spirits by ...
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For full-year fiscal 2015 (ending 2 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported record revenue of $3.26bn, up 42% on fiscal 2014's $2.29bn. For the fiscal ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (ended 3 October 2015), Qorvo Inc, which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has reported revenue of $708.3m, up 5.2% on $673.6m last ...
Tags: Qorvo, RFMD, TriQuint Semiconductor, Mobile Products
Platts assessed spot premiums for aluminum imports into Japan at $85-$90/mt plus London Metal Exchange cash CIF Japan Monday, flat since October 27, amid talks of offers available at $80/mt heard in the market. Two Asian traders said they ...
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For third-quarter 2015, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $68.7m, down on $114.4m a year ago, negatively impacted by continuing erosion in relevant underlying ...
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Long Range 1 tanker rates are soaring in Europe as vessels are delayed due to high storage levels in Europe, and the busy naphtha arbitrage to the East is rapidly eating into the available tonnage. LR1 rates on the Northwest Europe to ...
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Alaskan legislators on Wednesday approved the state's buyout of TransCanada's interest in the Alaska LNG Project. The state House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve funds for the acquisition, which was proposed by Governor Bill ...
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Line space on Colonial Pipeline's distillate Line 2 on Wednesday fell back to the lowest point seen this year on a tighter US Gulf Coast/Atlantic Coast spread for ultra low sulfur diesel. Platts assessed line space on the 1.16 million b/d ...
Touch panel maker TPK has announced net loss of NT$19.4 billion (US$600 million), or loss per share of NT$55.15 for the third quarter of 2015. The operating loss was primarily attributable to one-off asset impairment charges on ...
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The volatile solar market will rationalize extensively over the next year, with the handful of leading companies likely to have successful initial public offerings (IPOs) outweighed by several others going to the wall. Jason Eckstein, the ...
Tags: Solar, CIGS, concentrating photovoltaics
The market for mid-infrared lasers is about to receive a welcome boost from a raft of new medical and military applications. That’s according to a new analyst report from the market research firm Strategies Unlimited, which ...
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The factory in Mesa, Arizona, had never been intended to house the manufacture of a gemstone. Ahead of the photovoltaics industry’s 2011-2012 meltdown, First Solar had built it with the aim of producing 280 MW worth of solar panels ...
Tags: Arizona, photovoltaics industry, Alchemy Turns Sapphire
For third-quarter 2015, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
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US-based packaged food company ConAgra Foods has signed an agreement to sell its private label operations to TreeHouse Foods for $2.7bn in cash, which excludes transaction expenses. Under the agreement terms, ConAgra Foods will sell ...
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