Summer Las Vegas Market which runs through July 31, 2014 – welcomed a growing number of buyers from an increasingly diverse range of U.S. regions and countries, drawn by the Market’s dramatically expanding and enriched ...
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BELLEVUE, WA — Truck manufacturer Paccar announced a nine-percent increase in profit in the second quarter of 2014 and Paccar Parts is building a new distribution center in Washington. "This new facility will more than double the ...
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Bank of China, China's fourth biggest lender, plans a RMB30.7 billion (US$5 billion) bond sale that will be the largest of all tier-1 notes in the country, Bloomberg reported. Bank of China plans to issue the bonds in various currencies, ...
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On August 20, Guangdong Province-based Chinese steel rolling and processing company SGIS Songshan Co., an affiliate of Guangdong-based Shaoguan Iron and Steel Co. (Shaogang), announced in its financial report for the first half of the ...
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Australian mining company BHP Billiton has announced its financial results for the year ended June 30 this year. According to the company's financial statement, BHP Billiton has posted a net profit of US$13.83 billion for the financial ...
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For the 2014/15 season, the August report of USDA forecasts global world cotton production at 117.6 million bales, up 1.2 million bales above the forecast made in July, but is slightly below 2013/14 cotton output. In its report, the US ...
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Friday's USDA grain stocks and production data didn't hold many surprises for the trade, with carryout numbers falling fairly close to previous estimates, ones that the trade has largely digested. Corn carryout for the U.S. is pegged at ...
No need to drag out the Carhartts just yet, but be ready for a cooldown in parts of the nation's midsection in the next few days, forecasters say. Remember the polar vortex that swung down into the Midwest a few times last winter, ...
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For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (to 28 June 2014), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $316.3m, up 23.6% on $256m last quarter and up 8% on $293m a year ago (and well above the $305m forecast at the ...
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RF front-end component maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA says that it is the first gallium nitride (GaN) RF chip maker to achieve Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 9, meaning that its GaN manufacturing processes have ...
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For second-quarter 2014, Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has reported revenue of ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 27 June), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $587m, up 22% on $481m last quarter and 34.6% on $436.1m a year ...
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University of Liverpool researchers propose replacing a toxic treatment step in cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell production with one that is benign, but apparently just as effective [J. D. Major et al, Nature, published online 25 June ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has achieved record photovoltaic (PV) solar module efficiency of 36.7%, as measured under Concentrator Standard Testing Conditions (CSTC). This has been done by ...
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Agnitron Technology Inc of Eden Prairie, MN, USA is scheduled to ship its latest 1500°C+ reactor upgrade for the Veeco metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) D-series Legacy System platform. The single 2”- or ...
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