The Valspar Corporation celebrates 50 years of Fluropon 70 percent PVDF resin-based coatings. Since the flagship architectural coating launched in 1965, Valspar’s Fluropon exterior coatings have become the industry standard for both ...
Tags: Color, golden anniversary, Construction
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been impacted by the US imposing an average 19.5% anti-dumping tariffs rate. But rooftop PV systems, especially those built with high-efficiency cells, will provide market ...
Tags: PV, solar cell, Lighting
Due to the major aggressive expansion plans of some China-based LED companies, IHS forecasts that 220 gallium nitride (GaN) reactors will be installed in 2015. This new capacity expansion is slightly different from what happened several ...
Tags: GaN, MOCVD Companies, Lights
Chairman Jimmy Chu of the Fair Friend Ent. Group, Taiwan's biggest machine-tool conglomerate by revenue, announced plans to go public in Taiwan around the end of 2017 by consolidating resources of all of its subsidiaries worldwide. The ...
Tags: machine-tool, horizontal machining
IC demand from China's smartphone market is showing signs of a pick-up, as inventories at non-Apple vendors ease, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. Strong sales of Apple's iPhone 6 devices in China resulted in excess ...
China-based PV firms expect orders to significantly rebound in the second quarter of 2015 as domestic demand is expected to increase after the China government set a target total PV installation capacity of 17.8GWp for 2015, according to ...
Tags: PV module, PV installation
The Department of Resources Engineering under National Cheng Kung University in southern Taiwan has developed a method to separate high-purity silicon and silicon carbide from silicon slurry, a waste from making crystalline silicon solar ...
China-based LED packaging service provider MLS has extended production to own-brand LED lighting and began to sell LED light bulbs and tubes in the US market in 2014, and expects LED lighting revenues from the US in 2015 to grow on year by ...
Tags: LED Lighting, US market, LED
Nan Ya Photonics is showcasing a DLC (diamond-like carbon coating) omni-directional LED light bulb at the 2015 LED Taiwan exhibition taking place in Taipei March 25-28 and indicated that the product weighs 70g, compared to 150-200g for ...
Tags: LED Light Bulb, LED Bulb
Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) on March 26 decided not to distribute any dividend for 2014, according to the company. GET posted consolidated revenues of NT$15.285 billion (US$484 million), gross ...
Optical lens module maker Genius Electronic Optical has extended development and production to LED lighting and has offered LED fishing lights for Pacific saury fishing boats, according to the company. Conventional fishing lights on ...
Tags: Optical lens module, LED lights
Patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) maker Rigidtech Microelectronics is seeing strong orders in March and expects continued growth into April, with 4-inch units expected to be at the forefront, according to company president Hung Wen-ching. ...
Tags: Sapphire, LED Chip, epitaxial wafer
Taiwan has recalled food products illegally imported from five Japanese regions affected by the earthquake in 2011 and consequent nuclear disaster. According to Food and Drug Administration director General Chiang Yu-mei, country's health ...
Tags: BES, health officials, Food
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have lowered quotes for PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) monocrystalline models from US$0.49/W at the beginning of 2015 to US$0.45/W currently due to lower-than-expected demand, ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Crystalline Silicon
The lowest price for an LED light bulb will drop from US$8 in 2014 to US$5 in 2015 and ex-factory prices will slip to US$2-3 in 2015, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye for Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar. The ...