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 ...
After a very strong second quarter of 2010, the photovoltaics market is on track to deliver more than 15 GW of installations in 2010 - more than double the 2009 figure and up slightly on the consensus figure arrived at earlier this year. ...
Tags: photovoltaics market, supply, demand
Led by China, the solar industry will grow at a CAGR of 8.3% – from 37.5 GWp (gigawatt peak) in 2013 to 65.6 GWp in 2019 – but emerging trade disputes involving the Asian giant, as much as global policies, cast a shadow over ...
Tags: solar industry, Market, X-Si
Analysts at the consultancy company IHS are predicting a 25 per cent rise in global demand for photovoltaics in 2015, with the emergence of the Indian market set to contribute strongly for the first time. “While 2014 remained a ...
Tags: PV Market, solar panels, solar PV
New predictions from Greentech Media’s market research division (GTM Research) suggest that solar photovoltaics will account for half of all the new electricity-generating capacity added globally over the next five years – and ...
Tags: PV industry, global PV demand, PV market
While Ford has made inroads into increased usage of aluminum sheet in its vehicles, it is still "too early" to expect additional steel-to-aluminum announcements from other major automakers such as Toyota and General Motors, Sean Stack, CEO ...
Tags: Ford, aluminum sheet, Steel
Constantia Flexibles has opened a new research and development (R&D) center for polymer films and film laminates for flexible packaging in Germany. The move is in line with the company's multi-million investment for upgrading equipment ...
Wacker Chemie AG has officially started up a new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene co-polymer (VAE) dispersions at its Calvert City site in Kentucky, USA. By expanding its capacities, WACKER is meeting global demand for its dispersions and ...
Tags: Wacker, dispersible polymer powders, VAE
A surge in global demand for Soraa’s full visible spectrum GaN on GaN™ LED lamps and Optical Light Engines has led the company to name George Stringer as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. Stringer, who most ...
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Major regional markets (i.e. China, the U.S. and Japan) and other emerging markets continue to drive the demand growth of this year’s photovoltaic (PV) market. The latest report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, says that the ...
Tags: PV market, PV installation
It’s a long way from New York’s Madison Avenue advertising agencies to Gaborone, but for Botswana a lot is riding on the success of the ad campaign De Beers will launch in the coming weeks. Like oil-exporting countries now ...
Liquor store chain Licor Zone is to acquire several Mexican tequila distilleries in a bid to become heavy weight in the tequila business. The move comes as several small and medium-sized distilleries may cease their operations or may ...
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Belgium based weaving technologies manufacturer Picanol Group reported an 18 per cent year over year hike in sales for the six months to June 30, 2015. Picanol realised a consolidated turnover of €259.8 million in the first half of ...
New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that GE Global Research Center of Niskayuna, NY, USA will expand its New York global operations to the Mohawk Valley, serving as the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization ...
Tags: SiC Power Electronics, packaging
Mainstream PV products are currently struggling against sameness and virulent price competition. To become outstood over others, solar companies have to develop differentiated and competitive products. The trend is triggered by the ...
Tags: PV products, PV cells