Worldwide robot makers have been expanding their capacity recently with Germany-based Kuka cooperating with the China-based Midea Group to expand its capacity in Europe and China. Meanwhile, Japan-based Yaskawa has also increased investment ...
Tags: Industrial Robot, Robot
The outline for China’s 13th five-year plan isn’t exactly summer beach reading: The 65,858-character document, which lays out in broad terms how China’s leaders want the country’s economy to develop between now and ...
Tags: five-year plan, political economy
Freight rates for shipping coal from northern China's Qinhuangdao port to the other Chinese ports of Zhangjiagang, Shanghai and Guangzhou in eastern and southern China began to rise in the week to Tuesday, port operator Qinhuangdao Port ...
Tags: coal, coal demand
ODM Quanta Computer shipped 2.7 million notebooks in January, declining 30.8% on month but rising 17.4% on year, according to the company. Quanta expects notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2017 to decrease about 20%. Quanta on ...
China National Energy Administration released statistics right after the Lunar New Year: Up until late-2016, the cumulative PV installation reached 77.42GW in China. The newly-added installation reached 34.54GW in 2016, a doubled growth ...
Tags: PV installation, mono-Si modules
The major problems facing China's agricultural sector are structural ones, mainly on the supply side, according to the document by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. The document calls for ...
Major Chinese miner Shenhua Group's commercial coal production in December reached 25.30 million mt, up 0.4% year on year, the company said Sunday. Coal sales rose 4.8% year on year to 34.7 million in December, of which sales of ...
Tags: commercial coal, coal
Prices for 12-inch blank silicon wafers are set to continue rising, driven by robust demand from foundries and memory chipmakers, according to industry sources. Wafer suppliers are mulling adjusting upward their contract quotes for ...
Tags: Silicon Wafers, memory chip
Toyota Motor has partially redesigned the Vitz car with a 1.5-liter engine hybrid system and enahnced control of the engine, motor, inverter, and other parts. The Vitz2 is a core Toyota brand model that was initially introduced in 1999. ...
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Samsung SDI has unveiled a new battery cell which allows electric vehicles (EVs) to run up to 600km with fast charging. Marking its 4th consecutive year, Samsung SDI (President and CEO: Namseong Cho) (KRX:006400) participated at the North ...
Phosphor export values of Changshu, a city located in Jiangsu Province in China, reportedly tumbled 55% Year-on-Year in 2016, based on data compiled by local customs agency, reported Chinese-language media China News Service. LED phosphor ...
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The World Bank on Tuesday kept its forecast for China's economic growth rate for 2017 unchanged at 6.5 percent, saying that the economy will continue sustainable growth as it is rebalancing from manufacturing to services, despite reemerging ...
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Global production value for high-brightness LED chips in 2017 will reach US$13.179 billion, growing 2.8% on year, according to Digitimes Research. There will be 303.754 billion high-brightness LED chips shipped globally in 2017, ...
China's direct investment in the U.S. is expected to grow fast in 2017, but political realties pose major downside risk to it, according to a research report by a U.S. consulting firm. Chinese companies invested a record of 45.6 billion ...
China's manufacturing activity expanded for a fifth month in December. The manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) came in at 51.4 in December, lower than 51.7 in November and staying above the 50-point boom-bust line for the fifth ...
Tags: Manufacturing Activity, PMI