US commercial crude stocks fell 9.87 million barrels to 373.92 million barrels for the reporting week ended July 5, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. The latest decline marks the sharpest two-week draw in US crude ...
Tags: Crude Stocks, Crude imports
The oil complex nudged slightly higher during light trading Tuesday. Those gains were led by NYMEX August RBOB, which settled 4.23 cents higher at $2.9260/gal. NYMEX August crude settled 39 cents higher at $103.53/barrel, while ICE August ...
NWE ethylene spot prices rose Eur15/mt on the week Thursday to Eur1,020-1,025/mt ($1,314-1,320) FD NWE, driven by better-than-expected offtake from primary derivative polyethylene in July. On Friday, a buyer and seller confirmed a 2,000 ...
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According to the latest '2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report' published by the LEDinside research department of market research institute TrendForce, sapphire substrate manufacturers are optimistic about the emerging demand for ...
Tags: substrates LEDs, LED, Electrical, Electronics
International credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has announced that it has raised the long-term corporate credit rating of Turkish steelmaker Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari T.A.S. (Erdemir) to 'B+' from 'B', with the outlook being ...
Tags: Turkey-Based Erdemir, Mineral
South Korea-based TV makers hope to further reduce the cost of direct-lit LED TVs by using fewer LED chips in backlight modules, hence the firms hope LED packaging houses can increase the wattage of the packaging to 1.2W per chip. This ...
Tags: LED Packaging, Lights
US commercial crude stocks likely fell around 1.5 million barrels for the reporting week ended May 24, according to a Platts analysis and a survey of oil analysts Tuesday. The American Petroleum Institute will release its weekly report at ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
For first-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $8.3m, down 18.6% on ...
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
Since the beginning of the second quarter, prices of solar wafers and cells in Taiwan have been increasing due to expectations that Europe may levy anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on China-based peers. Currently, prices of solar cells ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Energy
Analysts see sanity returning to PV market 21 May 2013 Lux Research and Solarbuzz see industry 'returning to equilibrium' as uncompetitive suppliers disappear. Despite the looming possibility of a photovoltaics (PV) trade war between ...
Lextar Electronics is expected to see gross margin rise from 6.82% for the first quarter of 2013 to 13-14% for the second due to growing orders for LED backlight units used in TV, monitor, tablet and smartphone panels, according to market ...
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Taiwan-based solar conductive paste maker Giga Solar has reported front silver conductive paste shipments in the first quarter reached 2.4 tons. Including shipments of back silver conductive paste, silver conductive paste sales have ...
Tags: Giga Solar, Silver Paste Shipments
Due to rising capacity utilization rates and rising solar cell prices in the first quarter of 2013, Taiwan-based solar cell maker Motech saw gross margin rise to negative 8% from negative 15.7% in the fourth quarter of 2012. According to ...
Refiners along the US Gulf Coast "left money on the table" by performing much-needed seasonal maintenance this winter, giving up profits from exports during a period of substantially higher diesel crack spreads, RBN Energy analyst Sandy ...
Tags: Refiners, Gulf Coast