"Clariant had a promising start to the year with good volume growth and an increase in operating profitability," said CEO Hariolf Kottmann. "Overall, our businesses performed well in an improving but still mixed economic environment. The ...
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China's white-box tablet players have been turning to adopt application processor (AP) solutions from Intel and MediaTek for their 3G and LTE-enabled models because of Intel's subsidies for tablet products and MediaTek solutions' pricing ...
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The frenzied pace of infrastructural developments in South Africa and Kenya is growing the market for thermoset resins in both countries. Significant government investment, especially in low-cost housing, road and other non-domestic ...
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Consistent improvements in technology and gradually lower costs will drive high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) systems to superior efficiencies, making HCPV an increasingly viable rival to conventional solar-generating solutions, ...
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Consistent improvements in technology and gradually lower costs will drive high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) systems to superior efficiencies, making HCPV an increasingly viable rival to conventional solar-generating solutions, ...
Tags: Solar PV Systems, HCPV systems
HanesBrands a leading marketer of everyday basic apparel under world-class brands will highlight its margin-enhancing Innovate-to-Elevate strategy and priorities for use of cash flow at the company’s investor day meeting Thursday, ...
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Sales of optical splitters, fiber sensors set for significant growth 27 Feb 2014 FTTH deployment dominates the PLC splitter market, while military and aerospace still taking lion’s share of sensors. The FTTH market is a great ...
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Sodium-ion batteries offer an attractive alternative to Li-ion batteries not because they outperform Li-ion batteries, but mainly because of lower costs due to the the nearly unlimited supply of sodium. They are also an attractive ...
Tags: Li-ion batteries, ACS Nano, 2-D materials
Riverbed has unveiled Riverbed Granite 2.6, with new features that support bigger data sets and additional enterprise-class storage solutions, including IBM Storwize V7000. The branch converged infrastructure solution centralises branch ...
Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced that its listed subsidiary Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd will see an estimated 50-100 percent year-on-year rise in its net profit for 2013. ...
Tags: steelmaker, reduced prices of raw materials, lower costs, net profit
Tera-Barrier Films (TBF) has made nano-technology one of its fortes. Patently, invention is another. The spin-off company from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering's (IMRE) has invented a new plastic that creates an air ...
Driven by lower costs and emissions, the trucking industry is slowly shifting towards natural gas engines. A report by Navigat Research, a consulting team that analyzes global clean technology markets, forecasts that sales of natural gas ...
For the last year, there's been some guarded optimism that the U.S. hog herd could be on its way to expansion. But, the sustained growth forecast in 2013 never really reached fruition by the year's end that industry-watchers saw coming. ...
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This story appears in the December 2013/January 2014 issue of iTECH, published in the Dec. 16 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. A new "blue paper" by the research department of investment bank Morgan ...
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In 1879, the incandescent light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison, according to a report by a South Daily Media Group subsidy. Yet, 135 years later today, incandescent bulbs will officially become history in the U.S. Starting from Jan. 1, ...
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