Kyocera Corp. aims to boost pretax profit by around 40% over the fiscal 2013 figure to more than 200 billion yen ($1.94 billion) in fiscal 2017, says President Goro Yamaguchi. The Japanese ceramics maker will work to sell more components ...
Turkey continues to take steps toward increasing its own security of supply, as energy use is expected to double by 2023, triggering a requirement for around 100 GW of capacity, although market participants said the current "crisis" in the ...
Tags: Gas Market, Gas plant
LASYS 2014 to see demo of high-power welding with online seam tracking; BMW-Mini already a fan. Laser positioning and deflection technology developer Scanlab and subsidiary Blackbird Robotics will be presenting their new robot-assisted 3D ...
Tags: Scan System, Laser-Robots
In the 'Global and China RF Industry Report, 2013-2014', market analayst firm Research In China notes that the biggest event in the RF industry in 2014 is RF Micro Devices' 'takeover' of Triquint Semiconductor. Triquint suffered ...
Tags: Filter, Electrical, Electronics, Mobile RF Industry
More than half of Asia's gas needs will be supplied by LNG by 2030, Santos Ltd CEO David Knox said Thursday, adding that this will provide the Australian LNG exporter opportunities to grow. Speaking from the Brisbane Mining Club, Knox ...
Tags: Gas, Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Chinese manufacturing grew for the third consecutive month in May, suggesting a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is stabilizing, a state-sanctioned industry group said Sunday. The China Federation of Logistics and ...
Tags: economic growth
PVC market prices across Asia are expected to rise as of June offers on reduced market supply from Taiwan, Japan and India, market sources at the Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference in Pattaya said Thursday. Market participants said ...
Tags: PVC Prices, VCM Shortages
Renewable energy is a solution to carbon emission and climate change. As the world’s biggest carbon emitter, China has been encouraging solar power development and installation to lower its emission volume. To cut its reliance on ...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Solar Power
China's steel production has plateaued and mills are focusing on complying with tougher anti-pollution measures instead of expanding capacity, a senior official at the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) said on Wednesday. The fight ...
Tags: Steel Production, Iron, Steel
The $156 million final judgment against Nucor Corp. Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., American Alloy Steel Inc. and JSW Steel (USA), for conspiring to drive competitor MM Steel LP out of business was delayed Monday by US District Judge Kenneth ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
A three-month old arbitrage window to export Asian butadiene to the US that had been slowly closing earlier this month has widened again this week and as a result producers and traders have been heard trying to arrange for butadiene cargoes ...
Tags: Butadiene, Asian butadiene
Energy and Climate Minister Greg Barker has announced a new UK Solar PV strategy this month that involves developing government estates, factories, supermarkets and car parks into 'Solar Hubs'. The strategy will support the government's ...
Tags: Solar PV Market, PV, Solar
The Samsung affiliate announced on April 28 2014 that it will begin mass producing raw material for green phosphorescent OLED. After developing the material for two years, the company is finally ready for mass production. It estimates a ...
The total electricity used in industrial, commercial, residential and public (including street lamps) lighting in Taiwan in 2013 has been estimated at 22 billion kWh, and if all lighting had used LEDs, the total power consumption could have ...
Tags: LED lighting, lighting, Taiwan, LED
The Asian naphtha industry agreed Thursday that carbon disulfide, or CS2, levels in the light distillate have to be reported for cargoes originating from Sikka, India, and those from Western arbitrage flows into the region. Currently, ...
Tags: Naphtha Industry, Carbon Disulfide