Multi-channel distribution is likely to fuel the demand for on-demand packaging as companies continue their search for more cost-effective solutions. Only 7% of companies are making their boxes on demand. However, that figure is set to ...
Tags: on-Demand Packaging, Multi-Channel Distribution, Electrical
The forthcoming instalment of Children's Fashion Cologne (CFC) 2015, an international trade fair that showcases children’s fashion trends for the coming seasons, is slated to take place from January 11 to 13, 2015, in Germany’s ...
Peak Sports Products Q2 comps rose low-single digits. With the increase in same store sales for the period ended June 30, the Chinese company said its distributors and retailers recorded improved results due to better sell-thrus and fewer ...
Tags: Peak Sports, Sneakers
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers who are considering establishing production lines overseas in locations other than China specifically for exports to the US market have difficulties making up their minds due to possible ...
Tags: solar cell, Taiwan
The China National Energy Administration announced a new policy on September 4 aimed at bolstering the distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) market. “This new policy will loosen current regulations, which will give the market a needed ...
Tags: PV Market, distributed PV
Supported by favorable government policies China’s LED industry initiated a new round of financing during the first half of 2014, according to a Chinese-language report by Consumption Daily. Innovative technology and new products ...
Tags: LED Industry, LED market
China makers' shipments of touch panels used in handsets, tablets and notebooks grew 32.6%, 0.3% and 32.2%, respectively, on quarter in the second quarter of 2014, according to Digitimes Research. Tablet touch panel shipments decreased as ...
A monthly benchmark that gauges purchasing professionals' views on procurement activity in the electronic components marketplace. A reading below 100 indicates pessimism; a reading above 100 indicates optimism. After slowing in July, the ...
A British watchmaker has called time on the Swiss domination of the luxury timepiece industry. Christopher Ward, founded by Mike France, Peter Ellis and Chris Ward, has created a brand new, British-owned watch movement, breaking away ...
Tags: Swiss Watch, Watch
TV sales in China during the October 1 holiday period are estimated to grow 2-3% on year in 2014, according to sources in the supply chain. Additionally, China-based research firm AVC has indicated it expects sales to grow 2.2% to 5.53 ...
Tags: TV sales, Ultra HD TVs
New orders to U.S. production plants soared a record 10.5 percent in July on a 74 percent bookings spike in the volatile transportation sector. The somewhat misleading double-digit gain was propelled by an eye-popping 317.3 percent surge in ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Hardware
July U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $354.63 million according to AMT — The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTO program, was down 11.5 percent from ...
Tags: Manufacturing Technology
Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been exploring the potential of using 'van der Waals epitaxy' (vdWE) to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon [Yazeed Alaskar et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., published online 26 August 2014]. The team ...
In July of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.86 million metric tons, up 0.52 percent compared to July 2013 and up 0.67 percent compared to June, according ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In Sweden, industrial production decreased by 1.1 percent in July this year compared to June and decreased by 5.7 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral