Home furnishing retailer IKEA has announced total sales of £1.4b in the UK for the financial year ending 31st August 2014, an increase of 11.3% on the previous year. Following an ambitious pledge last year by UK country retail ...
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After falling by about 50% from 2009-2014, pricing for solar glass is set to commence a rebound starting in 2015, as anti-dumping duties levied by the European Union go into effect on China suppliers. Average global pricing for glass used ...
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New Taipei has adopted a PFI (private finance initiative) scheme to replace streetlamps with LED models in the northern Taiwanese city. Lite-On Technology and Delta Electronics have both won the city's PFI contracts to install 120,000 and ...
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Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Friday that the US imported a total of 3,892,000 net tons (nt) of steel in September, including 2,946,000 nt of finished steel (up 5.2 percent ...
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Third quarter pre-tax profit of $1.2 billion, a decrease of $1.4 billion compared with a year ago; after-tax earnings per share of 24 cents, excluding special items; 21stconsecutive profitable quarter. Net income of $835 million, or 21 ...
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China's e-commerce market scale will reach US$445.1 billion in 2014, and the lighting e-commerce market scale in China has reached US$2.4 billion in 2014, according to LEDinside. "As LED lighting products continue to sellout online, the ...
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PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials began shipments of front-side and back-side PV silver pastes in 2013 and expects to ship 240 tonnes of the PV materials in 2014, seven times the volume of 2013 and accounting for about 20% of ...
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This growing demand for packaging is met by the automation packaging which helps speeding up the process of packaging of goods. As the demand for packaging increases the, demand for automated packaging also increases. Increasing ...
Smart meter is fundamentally equipped in smart grid. The advancing smart grid construction in China spurred the constant growth of smart meter demand. By the end of 2013, 370 million smart meters had been accumulatively installed in China, ...
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Transparency Market Research has published a new report titled "High-performance Ceramic Coatings Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020." According to the report, the global ...
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USDA in its latest report warns that countries with policies that support prices above the world levels may in turn reduce their export competitiveness for both cotton and textiles, especially yarn and fabric. China’s new cotton ...
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Flow instrumentation manufacturer AW-Lake Company has reshaped its management team in response to growing business needs. Mark Iverson has been promoted to General Manager of the company, reporting to Flow Division President, John McKenna. ...
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In the January-September period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 26.06 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 14.9 percent year on year, according to the figures released by China's Ministry of ...
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Stronger demand from China led Taiwanese PV manufacturers to perform better in September than in August. Makers include Tainergy Tech, Motech, Gigasolar and Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) were profitable due to significantly higher ...
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The next-generation power semiconductor market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 63% between 2011 and 2017 to more than $500m, forecasts market research firm The Information Network in its report 'Next-Generation ...
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