TOKYO, Nov 25, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- First Solar, Inc. FSLR -0.38% today announced that it has started construction of a solar project in Kitakyushu-shi, Japan. Generation capacity of the project is 1.4MWDC, and it will start operating ...
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The global market for specialty films is projected to be worth $6.0 billion in 2013 and grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 6.0% until 2018, according to a brand new market report from Smithers Pira. The Future of Specialty Films: ...
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Even the post-turkey coma couldn't keep a good shopper down as millions of people across the country lined the sidewalks late Thursday night and by midnight on Black Friday to stock up on discounted toys, laptops, tablets, apparel, and ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Retail Sales
Brazil Steel Institute (IABr) has revised its forecast regarding the expected decline in Brazil's steel imports in 2013, from a drop of 14.4 percent to a fall of just 0.5 percent. Thus, Brazil's steel imports are expected to total 3.8 ...
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Positive retail sales numbers in the month of October point to a good holiday sales season ahead. According to the National Retail Federation – the world largest retail trade association – October retail sales, excluding ...
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Chemical manufacturers will spend $440 million in 2014 for centrifuges, clarifiers, hydrocyclones and dissolved air flotation systems. This is the most recent forecast in the continually updated, Sedimentation & Centrifugation World ...
Taiwan is the world’s leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world’s capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). Meanwhile, worldwide ...
Adjustments to Cotton Outlook's world supply and demand estimates during the past month imply an addition to world stocks of 1,669,000 tonnes at the end of the 2013-14 season, little altered from the 1,661,000 indicated a month ago. A ...
As the Rupp Report mentioned last week, the annual PCI Fibres Conference 2013 took place November 7-8, 2013, in Hong Kong. The event was an unlimited source of important information concerning the global fiber and textile industry. As ...
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Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
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On Nov. 26, 2013, Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. entered into a plea agreement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) agreeing to pay a fine of $120 million based on charges that it violated U.S. anti-trust laws in connection with ...
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The number of 4G-LTE mobile connections worldwide is forecast to pass one billion by 2017, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of GSMA, the international trade body for mobile operators. By 2017, it is expected ...
Hewlett-Packard reported results for the last quarter of its fiscal year on Tuesday, and although sales were down from a year earlier there were some much-needed signs of improvement. HP's enterprise division, which sells servers, storage ...
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Microsoft's version of Windows for ARM-based devices, Windows RT, is being lined up for the chop, after Microsoft executive Julie Larson-Green admitted that three different versions of the Windows operating system was one too many. ...
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With cement manufacturers in Nigeria rapidly ramping up cement production capacity, Nigeria is now the biggest Sub-Saharan Africa manufacturer of the commodity. According to a Renaissance Capital (Recap) report on the cement industry in ...
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