Powered by a growing range of applications, 3D printing – encompassing laser additive manufacturing at the higher end – will become a mainstream production tool in many industries. Significant growth for this sector is predicted ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2014 edition of its Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap. The Roadmap, which complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan, intended for R&D programs, aims to guide ...
Tags: LED, OLED Lighting
US-based agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has completed the acquisition of some assets of Eaststarch C.V., which is ADM’s 50-50 joint venture with Tate & Lyle. Tate& Lyle is a UK-based agribusiness which ...
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Shell is to operate a standalone integrated gas division from the start of 2016 -- given the business's increasing importance to the overall group -- in a move that will also help Shell to integrate BG Group which it agreed to buy in April ...
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Ecolean is expanding its footprint to Japan in a bid to cater to the increasing demand for lightweight and convenient packaging solutions with low environmental impact. As part of the expansion, the company opened a new office in the ...
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GAC Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has rolled out the first locally produced sport-utility vehicle (SUV) Jeep Cherokee from its Changsha manufacturing plant in China. Expected to be in full production in November, the Jeep Cherokee is ...
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The National Business Work Conference was held in Beijing on December 28, 2014. The main tasks of the conference were to fully implement the spirits of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 3rd and the 4th Plenary ...
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Under the background that China’s economy entered into the new normal, new technologies, commercial formats and business modes in the service outsourcing industry sprung up, the role of innovation in development was even more ...
Tags: service outsourcing industry, Belt and Road Initiatives, foreign trade
On January 15, 2015, the journal Qiushi published a signed article by Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, titled “Grasp the World Situation and Promote the Level of Opening—Understanding of Studying and Implementing Important ...
On April 25, 2015, the 2015 Quarterly Analysis Conference, sponsored by China Association of International Trade, and undertaken by the Study Commission of Investment Planning association and the China Enterprise Cooperation and Promoting ...
Tags: Foreign Trade, international economic order, financing environment
The Conference of Chief Negotiators of the 7th Round of China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Area Negotiations was held in Seoul Korea on May 12. The Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen led Chinese delegation and attended the conference. ...
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The 21st Conference of Trade Ministers of the APEC was held in Boracay Philippines,on May 23-24, 2015. The Vice-Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen and the Chinese Ambassador in the WTO Yu Jianhua attended the conference. The participants ...
Tags: WTO, regional economic integration, multilateral trade system
People’s Daily published the signed paper of Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng’s To Cooperate for the Prosperity of Regional Development with the Help of the China-Korea Free Trade Agreement on June 2. The full text follows: ...
Tags: China-South Korea FTA, textile, garment, steels, liquid crystal display
The “Seminar of the 20th Anniversary of the WTO”, jointly hosted by China Society for World Trade Organization Studies (CWTO) and the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), was successfully held in Beijing on ...
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When people think about wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials for power electronics applications, they usually think of gallium nitride (GaN) or silicon carbide (SiC) – which is not surprising, since SiC and GaN are currently the ...
Tags: Power Electronics, semiconductor, LED