Taiwan-based handset ODMs, including Foxconn Electronics/FIH Mobile, Compal Electronics and Arima Communications, reportedly have landed orders from regional brands in China, India and Southeast Asia, according to industry sources. The ...
Tags: emerging markets, handset
US automotive giant General Motors (GM) will join forces with its Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry (SAIC) to develop a line of Chevrolet vehicles to cater to fast-growing emerging markets, pumping in $5bn over the next several ...
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German automotive giant Volkswagen (VW) has for the first time edged past Japanese carmaker Toyota to rise to the numero uno position in automobile sales during the first half of the current year. VW managed to sell 5.04 million units ...
Tags: Volkswagen, Carmaker, emerging markets
German petrochemicals producer BASF said July 24 that it expected the economic slowdown in China, margin volatility and growth uncertainty in Europe to be the biggest risks to growth for its chemicals division during the second half of the ...
Tags: Petrochemicals, oil
Khadi sales have jumped after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call last October advocating the need for use of such products, micro small and medium enterprises (MSME) minister Kalraj Mishra has said, according to media reports. "Khadi ...
Tags: textile manufacture, textile sales
OEM Group of Phoenix, AZ, USA (which supplies new and re-manufactured semiconductor capital equipment and upgrades focused on emerging markets) says that a leading LED maker has placed a repeat order for an AGHeatpulse RTP (rapid thermal ...
According to its 2015 Chinese LED Industry Market Report, LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, finds the scale of the Chinese LED package market for 2014 reached US$8.6 billion and grew by 19% annually. The general lighting market has been ...
Tags: LED Package, LED Chip
ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA, which manufactures wet-chemical processing equipment (especially for cost-conscious users of small substrates in emerging markets), has added to its Solstice family of <200mm-wafer electroplaters ...
ALUMINIUM CHINA 2015 is Asia’s leading aluminium industry platform, annually held in Shanghai. By presenting customized match making programs, buyers with emerging and established demands from booming industry clusters ...
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For branded media tablets, or tablet PCs, the year 2015 is off to a rocky start. For the first time since inception, the popular consumer item experienced its largest quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline to date of 35 percent, in the first ...
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Japan-based Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI) and Turkish firm Abdulkadir Ozcan Otomotiv have flagged off output at their tire manufacturing unit, set up through joint venture in the Central Anatolian province of ankr, Turkey. Under the ...
Tags: tire production, automobile accessories, tire business
China based Swellfun, the subsidiary of Diageo, has terminated its CNY2.3bn ($370m) Chinese liquor brand industrial park project owing to the recent anti-graft campaign in the country. As cited in Guangzhou's Time Weekly, the project was ...
Tags: Swellfun, misguided policies
Outsourcing to Asia means frequent contact with your suppliers. One in five Australian businesses have lost out financially because of poor supply chain management. As elements of Australian supply chains are increasingly being ...
Falling product ASPs and gross margins are set to erode Taiwan's fabless IC firms' profitability in 2015, according to industry sources. Foundry chipmakers have seen their production capacities stay loose thus far in 2015, said the ...
Tags: fabless IC, IC industry
MM Packaging is an Austrian coated recycled cartonboard firm with a growing position in virgin fiber based board and a major European manufacturer of folding cartons. Based in France, Ileos designs and manufactures plastic, metal and ...
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