BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that one of its key specialized epitaxy customers has committed to an order for about $300,000 of foundry development, to be delivered over the next six months. The customer is developing a ...
Tags: BluGlass, solar cells, LED
Capacity expansion by Chinese LED chip makers has resulted in a supply glut, with this year's LED chip supply-demand ratio reaching 22%, according to the latest '2015 Global LED Industry Supply and Demand Database Report' by LEDinside (a ...
Tags: LED Chip, MOCVD Capacity
China is the key production base of relays in the world, with its output holding more than 50% of global total. Driven by the expanding demand from downstream markets, China’s relay sales and output reported RMB18.5 billion and about ...
Tags: Relays, Electronic Components
Mainly benefiting cost savings from utilization of in-stock raw materials procured earlier at lower prices, Taiwan-based China Steel Corp. (CSC), the island's largest steelmaker by size, therefore chalked up a 54-percent growth in pretax ...
Tags: raw material, global market, coking coal, iron ore
The recent drop in the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan (RMB) and U.S. dollar, the so-called "black Monday" on China's stock market and successive steep fall of the primary commodity market allowed much of the world to accuse China of ...
Tags: stock market, RMB depreciation
Premier Li Keqiang has encouraged State-owned enterprises to play a key role in the drive by the nation's industries to "go global", and make the most of their financial and technological advantages as they step up their international ...
Tags: nation's industries, economy
Four Taiwanese manufacturers have announced to increase capital to fund their expansion plans in the Taichung Export Processing Zone in central Taiwan and Chiayi Dapumei Intelligent Industrial Park in southern Taiwan. The four companies ...
Tags: IC packaging, single-lens camera, camera
For first-half 2015, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported unaudited results in line with expectations and its July trading update. Revenue was £53.2m, down 11% on £60m in second-half ...
Frito-Lay's Ruffles brand has begun offering Ruffles All Dressed potato chips for a limited period, till 7 December in the US. Ruffles All Dressed potato chips are considered popular for the combination flavours it offers that include ...
Tags: Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, potato chips
Two of the best known Taiwanese personal computer (PC) vendors, Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. (Asus), are aggressively targeting the mobile-device market, especially the smartphone segment, by launching several new cellphone models in ...
Tags: PC Vendors, Smartphone
Inventec Corp., a major EMS (electronics manufacturing services) provider headquartered in Taiwan, reportedly has become a supplier to Fitbit, the American vendor of wearable devices that recently went public on the New York stock exchange ...
Peak Performance, Scandinavia's largest technical sports and fashion wear brand, generated revenue of DKK 953m ($154 mm) in the fiscal year ended June 30, up 2.5 percent from the prior fiscal year, or 4.1 percent in currency-neutral terms, ...
Team Sportia Ab of Sweden and its majority owner SGN Sportia of Finland have joined Sport 2000 International, greatly extending the reach of Europe's second largest buying group for sporting goods retailers in the Nordic countries. Team ...
Tags: Team Sportia, fitness, unning and bicycling
Polyethylene films manufacturer BP Plastics is increasing production capacity at its plant in Batu Pahat, Malaysia, in a bid to increase exports. The company invested MYR13.5m ($3.12m) in a new cast stretch film machine from Austria amid ...
Tags: BP Plastics, Film Production
Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) Limited, the world's largest branded footwear manufacturer, reported net consolidated operating revenue grew 1.5 percent to $665.5 million in August, thanks to continued double-digit growth at its Chinese ...