People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
Tags: Smartphones, Camera
ATI Allegheny Ludlum, one of the major stainless steel producers in the US announced to hike its base prices for all 200 series grades, 300 series grades and 430 grades through cutting the functional discounts by two percentage points, ...
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According to data released by the American Iron and Steel (AISI), the US steel mills' shipments totaled 8.29 million short tons in October, rising by 5.2% from a month ago and increasing by 11.5% year on year and rising by 5.2% from a month ...
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In the first 10 months of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 1.12 percent on year-on-year basis, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. The country's CR sheet and strip shipments ...
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The IDC announced on November 26, 2013, the global smart phone market survey report shows that the sales of global smart phone in 2013 is expected to increase by 39.3% , more than 1 billion units, Japanese media reported. Although in many ...
Tags: Smartphone, Consumer Electronics, phone
Based on the data gathered by the "Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) Initiative," by 2017, all of that year's end-of-life refrigerators, TVs, mobile phones, computers, monitors, e-toys and other products with a battery or electrical cord ...
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AK Steel provided guidance for its fourth quarter of 2013 financial results Wednesday, saying it expects to realize net income of $0.02 to $0.06 per diluted share of common stock, excluding the effects of a potential non-cash income tax ...
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Friday that for the month of October 2013, US steel mills shipped 8,287,553 net tons, a 5.2 percent increase from the 7,879,747 net tons shipped in the previous month, September 2013, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Mill
Analyst firm tips Thailand to join China, Japan, Australia, and India as the major markets in the region. Market transition: the rise of the APAC region Demand for photovoltaic modules and systems in 2014 will be dominated by the ...
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Tire shipments are expected to increase more than 4%in 2013 to 297 million units,according to the Rubber Manufacturers Association(RMA).This represents an increase of 12 million units compared with 2012. In 2014,RMA expects demand ...
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Worldwide shipments of smart wearable bands are on the rise. Just over 200,000 smart wearable bands shipped in the first half of 2013, but this figure is set to grow by well over 500% in the second half of the year, according to Canalys. ...
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Seeing difficulties achieving further growth in the notebook business, Inventec is planning to switch its focus to the cloud computing and solar industries for 2014-2016, according to company chairman Richard Lee. As most ODMs are ...
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An index of leading economic indicators increased 0.8%in November after a 0.1%rise in October,the New York-based Conference Board said Dec.19. The increase was more than economists'medium forecast of 0.7%,Bloomberg News reported. "The ...
U.S.rail intermodal traffic set a record last week of 12.4 million shipments in a year,surpassing the previous mark of 12.28 million set in 2006. The record was reached in the 50th week of its freight reporting year. The Association of ...
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Steel Dynamics, Inc. provided fourth quarter earnings guidance Tuesday in the range of $0.21 to $0.25 per diluted share. The estimate compares to $0.25 per diluted share reported for the third quarter 2013 and $0.27 per diluted share ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy