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
Scott Bader Asia Pacific is exhibiting advanced composites at the 20th China International Composites Industrial Technical Expo (CCE 2014), taking place from 3-5 September at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre. This ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
AK Steel announced Wednesday that for the third quarter of 2014, the company expects shipments of approximately 1,350,000 tons, a decrease of approximately 3 percent from the 1,398,000 tons shipped in the second quarter of 2014. Shipments ...
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Automotive supplier cand increase production of gasoline high pressure injector, fuel rail and pump assembly lines in Newport News, Virginia, US with an investment of $150m. The project represents the company's first investment in ...
Tags: Continental, Operations, Auto Parts
General Motors has unveiled plans to temporarily scale back production at its facility near St Petersburg, Russia. The proposed plans come in response to a slump in demand in the Russian automotive market. A General Motors spokesperson ...
Tags: General Motors, Plans, Auto Parts
American flexible packaging supplier Prolamina Corporation has secured the latest pouch-manufacturing equipment, a custom-built Totani BH80, to increase production speed. This new addition will make Prolamina's Wisconsin facility the ...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) –The government on Tuesday cut its forecast for Japan’s economic growth in fiscal 2014 to 1.2 percent from 1.4 percent in real terms amid lingering fears that the April 1 consumption tax hike, the first in 17 ...
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Beijing-based clean-energy power generating firm Hanergy Holding Group Ltd (parent of thin-film photovoltaic module maker Hanergy Solar) has completed the acquisition of Alta Devices of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2007, Alta is a ...
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Munson Machinery is expanding the size of its Utica, New York, headquarters by approximately one-third, it was announced by Charles Divine, President and CEO. “The expansion will boost our fabrication and assembly capabilities to ...
Tags: Munson Machinery, headquarters, Construction
Elbit Vision Systems Ltd (EVS). a global provider of vision technology for automatic surface inspection and in-line quality monitoring systems, announced the release of iBar. iBar is positioned to become an essential tool for textile ...
Russian pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has stated that in the first half of this year its Casting-Rolling Complex (CRC) increased the production of hot rolled coiled steel by six percent year on year to 530,000 ...
Tags: Casting-Rolling Complex, steel
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), plans to increase its production in the current month. In particular, in July DMKD plans to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron, Steel
Contrary to PV manufacturers’ high utilization rates spurred by UK and Japan market demands in first quarter of 2014, pricing in the PV industry is likely to drop in the following quarter, according to EnergyTrend, a subsidiary of ...
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Singapore-based tire manufacturer Giti Tire has announced plans to build a new tire manufacturing plant in Chester County, South Carolina, US with an investment of $560m The new facility is expected to address the growing demand for tires ...
Warren Steel is asking Ohio regulators for an electricity rate discount the company says could allow it to attract "strategic partnerships" and reopen its Warren steelmaking plant that was shut in late March. Warren is the latest in a ...