Shell's hopes for a new gas-to-liquids mega project on the US Gulf Coast would benefit from much-improved process efficiencies, but any resulting cost savings could be limited by the need to build most of the plant outside the US, Shell ...
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The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) has released the June 2013 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative assessment of ...
Total capital spending in 2012 for the top 100 US producers, including acquisitions, rose 18% year over year to the highest level on record at $316.6 billion, driven by development capital spending of a combined $208 billion, according to a ...
Sapphire is currently used in some exotic, luxury phones. However, the sapphire price reduction combined with the massive adoption of touch screens in smartphones have stimulated the interest of cell phone OEMS for this material. Crystal ...
Tags: Electronics, Electrical
LED lighting demand has been rising and Taiwan-based LED packaging house Edison Opto noted that 2013 capex will reach NT$400-500 million (US$13-16 million). Edison Opto disclosed that despite rising demand in the LED lighting market, due ...
For fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to end-March), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufactures compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $42.3m, up ...
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Fab equipment spending will grow two percent year-over-year (US$ 32.5 billion) for 2013 and about 23 to 27 percent in 2014 ($41 billion) according to the May edition of the SEMI World Fab Forecast. Fab construction spending, which can be a ...
Tags: Fab Equipment, 2014
China-based solar module maker Hanwha SolarOne saw first-quarter 2013 consolidated revenues show a 33.3% sequential growth to CNY1.1129 billion (US$181 million). First-quarter 2013 revenues also showed an on-year increase of 38.4% compared ...
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All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies. For better or worse, many types of data are copied multiple times for multiple purposes, including backup, archiving and development work, ...
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Better than expected economic data provided a cushion for the Australian dollar yesterday, with a sharp rebound in home building and still-resilient corporate investment plans easing the need for the central bank to cut rates again. But ...
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For fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to end-March), optical component, module and subsystem maker Oclaro of San Jose, CA, USA, has reported revenue of $141.6m, down 11% on $159.5m the previous quarter and up 60% on $88.7m a year ago (which was ...
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Including $0.4m from the March acquisition of Arieso, optical networking and associated semiconductor technology firm JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported net revenue of $405.3m for its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to end-March), down 5.6% ...
Although global capital spending this year in the solar supply chain is expected to fall to its lowest level since 2006, indications signal that the downturn in investment has hit bottom and that purchases of equipment may soon rebound. ...
Tags: Solar Industry, Energy
Xilinx Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides all-programmable field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), systems-on-chip (SoCs) and 3D ICs, and Japan's Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd are collaborating to reduce capital expenditure (CapEx) ...
Tags: SEI, Electrical, Electronics
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.17 billion in orders worldwide in April 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.08, according to the April EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published ...