The light bulb that has lit up our homes since the 1800s is officially on its way out. The inefficient incandescent, which loses most of its energy as heat, has fallen out of favor with the financially and ecologically concerned. LED, ...
Tags: Outrace Technology, LED Technology, OEM/ODM Manufacturing, light bulb
Economists at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have downwardly revised their world trade growth estimate for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous estimate of 5.3 percent. For 2014 also, the WTO has reduced its world trade growth ...
Tags: world trade growth, GDP growth
Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced that in the third quarter of the current year its overall iron ore pellet production increased by 13.2 percent year on year ...
When the U.S. is switching to midterm election time, the media's attention is usually focused on domestic issues. It is not that international affairs are not important, but comparatively the public that is overwhelmed by local issues often ...
Tags: Foreign Policy, Policy
UK-based LED specialist Intelligent LED Solutions (ILS) - a division of display and optoelectronics provider Intelligent Group Solutions Ltd (IGS) - has launched a range of high-power UV LEDs suited to demanding industrial applications such ...
Tags: UV LEDs, LED, LED Component
More than 24 million vehicles will be sold this year in the world's largest auto market, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) has forecast. China's vehicle output is also expected to top 24 million units this year, ...
Tags: vehicles, auto market
China's environmental degradation has become a growing source of public consternation and a potential political liability. Premier Li Keqiang declared a "war on pollution" in March 2014, vowing to reduce emissions from power generation and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Shale
The Nikkei recently published a report on China's environmental pollution on August 4th, and I was shocked and dumbfounded by the sensational headline – China, A Perishing Nation Amid Environmental Pollution – written with an ...
Tags: China Air, China Climate
In the January-August period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 550.10 million mt, up 2.6 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The growth rate in question ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Crude Steel, Steel
Chip suppliers are expected to begin to pull in orders for wafers in order to produce chips for non-Apple device vendors, a move which is likely to start a new round of competition for wafer capacity, according to industry sources. Most ...
Tags: Wafer, Chip suppliers
Airlight Energy of Biasca, Switzerland, which supplies proprietary technology for large-scale production of electricity using solar power and for energy storage, has partnered with IBM Research, aiming to bring affordable solar technology ...
Tags: CPV IBM, Electrical, Electronics
Dextra Group, parent company of Dextra Lighting, has expanded its electronics facility, allowing it to become one of the first European lighting manufacturers to produce LED components in-house. With an investment of more than £4 ...
Higher aluminum prices have prompted some Chinese smelters to abandon production cutbacks and are seen leading to restarts of other plants, chipping away at what was expected to be the first global deficit after years of oversupply. A ...
Tags: Aluminum, physical material, Metal
Malaysian industrial stretch film producer Scientex has invested $91.97m in the next three years to expand into the Japanese and South-East Asian market for its consumer packaging products. The company will use the money to expand its ...
Chinese imports of iron ore in 2015 will increase from a record 900 million mt, an executive at Vale told media Thursday. According to Claudio Alves, global director of marketing and sales at the Brazilian mining company, the Asian ...