Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., one of South Korea's leading steelmakers, plans to become a global supplier of high-end steel products as part of efforts to brush off tough competition with Chinese and Japanese rivals, South Korea's media said on ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first five months of this year finished steel imports from China to Latin America increased by 81 percent year on year to 3.4 million metric tons. Latin America, which ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Finished Steel, Steel
Japan- and South Korea-based PV makers, in an attempt to export in-house-made PV modules to the US market following US imposition of preliminary anti-dumping tariff rates on PV products imported from China and Taiwan, have talked with ...
Tags: Taiwan, Solar Cell, Solar, PV
For the European coatings industry, REACH, the seven-year-old European Union's legislation on the registration, evaluation and authorization of industrial chemicals, has been posing major difficulties. However the Biocidal Products ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
China's massive investments in LED manufacturing capacity are paying off, with a Chinese company entering the top 10 global ranking (by revenue) of packaged LED makers for the first time, according to the IHS LED Intelligence Service of ...
Tags: LED, LED Market, LED Suppliers
Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials, fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials, announces the opening of its South Korean subsidiary. Lectra has been ...
Tags: Textile
After the recession in 2011 and 2012, the LED industry saw a turning point in 2013 when the die and package LED markets rose 8.3% from 2012 to about $15.188bn, according to the 'Global and China LED Industry Report, 2013-2014' from Research ...
Tags: LED market, LED
Global crude steel production in May this year increased by 2.2 percent year on year to 141.18 million metric tons, while a 3.34 percent rise was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In ...
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China's massive investments in LED manufacturing capacity are paying off, with a China-based company entering the top ranks of the global market for the first time ever, according to IHS. China's MLS Electronics in 2013 rose to the number ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED production
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics began flip-chip LED shipments to China-, South Korea- and Japan-based vendors in the fourth quarter of 2013 and aims to increase the revenue proportion from 15% for the first half of 2014 ...
PepsiCo has established Baking Category Innovation Center in Nuevo Leon, Mexico to expand the company’s research and development arm. The new center in Apodaca is a part of PepsiCo's five-year plan to invest $5bn to strengthen its ...
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The exports of fabric and garments from the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam jumped 18 percent year-on-year to US$ 7.505 billion in the first five months of 2014, according to the preliminary data released by the Customs IT & Statistics ...
Tags: Fabric Exports, Garment Exports
A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Oil Exports
Spot prices of 75%-Si ferrosilicon in Asia this week remained supported by tighter supply and improved demand among some exporters in China. Platts assessed the Chinese spot price at $1,330-1,370/mt FOB China Thursday, slightly higher ...
Tags: ferrosilicon, ferrosilicon prices
Samsonite International S.A. has agreed to acquire Gregory Mountain Products from Black Diamond, Inc. for $85.0 million in cash to be financed by Samsonite's internal resources as well as its revolving credit facility. The acquisition ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Samsonite, Bags, Cases, Boxes