Despite recent rebounding shipments of consumer notebooks due to replenishing inventories, global demand is still weak and therefore shipments are likely to significantly drop after the 2015 year-end holidays, especially since the first ...
The global sales of Android-based smartphones have been a disappointment affecting negatively the performance of Taiwan-based IC design houses, according to industry sources. Particularly in China's smartphone market, the share of Android ...
Tags: Android, China market, design, IC
With feed-in tariffs (FiTs) in the key markets of Germany and Italy about to be reduced, and financial problems spreading around the Mediterranean, there has been speculation of an accompanying decline in demand for solar cells used to ...
Tags: PV installations, solar power
A sharp upturn in demand has seen a number of analysts re-think their appraisal of the photovoltaics market in 2010. After the impact of the global credit crunch, which put the brakes on the rapid market expansion witnessed up until 2009, ...
Tags: Photonics Industry, cell prices
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
US-based agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has completed the acquisition of some assets of Eaststarch C.V., which is ADM’s 50-50 joint venture with Tate & Lyle. Tate& Lyle is a UK-based agribusiness which ...
Tags: ADM, corn wet milling, Corn business
McDonald's has announced that as of October 2015, all centrally-sourced packaging that is distributed across its 38 European markets is chain-of-custody certified, with wood fibre coming from recycled sources or forests certified to one of ...
Tags: Mcdonald, wood fibre, board products
The electronic smart packaging market will grow rapidly to $1.45 billion within 10 years, according to new projections. Researcher IDTechEx said an ageing population and changing lifestyles would mean greater demand for packages that ...
Tags: Smart Packaging, packaging
Premium meat and dairy producer, Truly Irish Country Foods, has enlisted warehousing and distribution experts, Oakland International, to expand distribution for their premium Irish meat and dairy product range across Ireland and the UK. ...
Tags: meat, dairy, Country Foods
Taiwan-based vendors Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) and China-based vendor Colorful Technology have seen shipment and profit growths from marketing bundled motherboards and graphics in the China's DIY PC market, ...
Tags: Motherboard, Graphics Cards
Coca-Cola has launched a new $5.7m PET bottling line in Liberia which was formally commissioned by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has challenged Liberians to create the enabling environment for businesses investing in this country to ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Pet Bottling Line
2 Sisters Food Group plans to invest £150m into its poultry unit, an announcement that comes a few days after the Birmingham-based company stated that it intends to invest £55m into its ready meals business. The investment ...
Tags: Poultry Business, poultry unit
US-based Mars Food has pledged its commitment with the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) to augment sustainable rice cultivation while reducing environmental footprint and improving the lives of farmers. The partnership has launched a global ...
Tags: Sustainable Rice, rice
ACCO Semiconductor Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a fabless provider of RF front-end component manufactured using standard high-volume bulk CMOS processes, has announced mass production of the AC26120, a CMOS multi-mode multi-band power ...
Tags: ACCO, Semiconductor, smartphones
ColaLife and Amcor Flexibles have developed a pouch which effectively delivers diarrhoea medicine to children in remote parts of Zambia. The lightweight Flexi-pack offers a measure for the water required to make up each of the four 200ml ...
Tags: Life-Saving Kit, Flexi-pack