OSAKA — Japan’s major electronic components producers, such as Murata Manufacturing and TDK, have been handling record-high order volumes, propelled by Apple’s new iPhone. Orders at six major Japanese manufacturers ...
Tags: Japan, Volumes, Electronics
Japanese consumer electronics giants may be struggling, but many of the country’s parts makers are thriving. While some of them have long-standing relationships with Apple Inc.AAPL+2.64% and other well-known names, they are also ...
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PRP Technology Ltd, a holding company of PRP Optoelectronics Ltd of Towcester, UK (a privately owned firm designing and manufacturing LED-based products), has announced a long-term strategic investment partnership with Veruth Holdings Ltd ...
Tags: LEDs, PRP Optoelectronics
Samsung Electronics will reportedly withdraw from the global LED lighting market due to low-price pressure from China-based makers, while Taiwan-based TSMC Solid State Lighting will reportedly cease operations, according to industry ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Samsung, Lighting
TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) has extended business operation to EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) services for setting up PV systems and has set up PV systems with total installation capacity of 23.4MWp in Taiwan, ...
Tags: PV Systems, LCD panel
Solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) plans to issue new shares to raise paid-in capital by NT$8-10 billion (US$264-330 million) ahead of a move to list its subsidiary GlobaWafers on Taiwan's over-the-counter (OTC) ...
Tags: semiconductor wafer, solar wafers
Benefiting from Taiwan's thriving fastener industry, which could finish this year with export value exceeding US$4 billion, Chun Zu Machinery Industry Co., Ltd., a leading Taiwanese supplier, aims for annual revenue of NT$1 billion ...
Tags: fastener industry, machine tools
Citroen has launched Airbump exterior protective panels for its C4 Cactus passenger car. The technology has been created by polymer materials maker PolyOne and the air-filled Airbump panels are capable of compressing up to 20 mm and get ...
Tags: Citroen, protective panels, passenger car
Rohm upgraded its earnings forecast for the April-September half, raising guidance for net profit to 19 billion yen ($178 million), up 55% on the year and some 9 billion yen higher than previously predicted. Sales of the Japanese ...
Tags: Smartphone Electronics
CVD Equipment Corp of Central Islip, NY, USA (a designer and maker of equipment for developing and manufacturing electronic components, materials and coatings for research and industrial applications) has appointed Dr Steven Aragon to the ...
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The fine embroidery and intricate silver ornamentation of Miao ethnic minority wedding costumes impress many of the domestic and overseas visitors to Miao villages. The Miao people invest their assets in silver jewelry, in the form of the ...
Green Energy Technology (GET), the largest Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker, is reportedly talking about cooperation with crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries to help the latter manage in-house ...
Tags: GET, Production, Lighting
In the presence of the Republic of Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean Senate’s President Isabel Allende and Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco, cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker ...
Tags: Solar Installs, PV Project
Sapphire wafer maker Tera Xtal Technology has cancelled a plan to issue 25 million new shares mainly due to large drops in its stock prices. The new shares were originally meant to be subscribed by existing shareholders (90%) and ...
Tags: Sapphire wafer, Tera Xtal
Crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has obtained from Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office a patent for a process to grow polycrystalline silicon ingots, according to the company. SAS filed for the patent ...
Tags: SAS, Wafer Process