The company’s upholds a positive outlook, having made a production capacity breakthrough in June 2014, lowered costs in 3Q14 and optimized utilization rates and product portfolio. Optimistic about the emerging LED lighting market, ...
Tags: Lextar, Production Capacity, Lights
Sapphire maker Tera Xtal Technology will expand its PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) monthly production capacity from 100,000 units currently to 200,000 units by the end of 2014 due to fast growing demand for LED lighting, according to a ...
FutureMark Alsip, a company that makes coated publication and printing papers from recycled materials, will indefinitely place its mill in idle mode due to challenging market conditions in the North American coated paper market. The ...
Tags: Futuremark Alsip, Mill, Packaging
The second half of the year is really starting to gain momentum for John Lewis, with a change in the weather this week driving a great week's trade, 13% ahead of last year. Online continued to trade strongly, growing a percentage share of ...
Tags: John Lewis, Sales, Furniture
JBT Corporation announced today that the Company has received orders in excess of $5 million for in-container sterilization technology from a packaged foods company. JBT will supply a comprehensive rebuild package that will transform and ...
Tags: JBT Corporation, technology, Food
Frozen and Loom Bands may be topping the Christmas predictions lists this year, but flexibility is the real key to a successful festive period, says our Retail Advisory Board. While it’s no surprise that planning for the festive ...
Tags: toy market, Toys
This September Scotland will vote on whether to leave the UK or not. But how might the outcome affect the country's retailers? By the end of this summer, a question will be asked of Scotland with the potential to change the UK as it is ...
Tags: Toy Industry, Independence
Renault has started taking orders for its city car, Renault Twingo in the UK with a starting price of £9,495. The car will be available in two engine option, a 1.0-litre Twingo 'Expression that is capable of producing 70 HP and the ...
Tags: Renault, City Car, Auto Parts
In the January-July period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 20.66 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 21.5 percent year on year, according to figures released by the China Association of the ...
Tags: Shipbuilding Output, new ship
Peripheral chip suppliers for the next-generation iPhone reportedly are preparing to build up combined inventories of related ICs equivalent for the production of 100 million units in the second half of 2014, according to industry sources. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Chip
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have seen increases in orders from China-based PV module makers as demand from the country grows. Overall solar cell demand in China has been rising, driven by increased government ...
Tags: Solar Cell, PV module
Passive component supplier Taiwan Chinsan Electronic Industrial will complete construction of its new plant in Guangzhou, China in the fourth quarter of 2014 with volume production slated to begin one quarter later, according to company ...
Tags: taiwan, Electrical, Electronics, component
Brazilian sales of flat steel are expected to slow down this year, steel distributors said recently. Brazil distributor association Inda said domestic sales of flat steels reached 2.5 million mt from January to July, reflecting a 1.9 ...
Tags: Brazilian, Sales, Metallurgy
Dematic has launched its modular goods-to-person storage and retrieval system to Australian distribution centres that the company says can deliver a picking rate improvement of 500% compared to a traditional environment. The new modular ...
Tags: GTP System, Improvements, Service
On August 19, the US Department of Commerce announced it had revised the preliminary anti-dumping duty on solar products produced by Motech Industries in Taiwan, causing Motech’s tariff rate to drop from 44.18%, the highest among ...
Tags: PV, Anti-Dumping Duty, Solar Cell