Two Indiana coal companies have received state regulatory approval for new or extended mining operations that could produce an additional several million short tons of high-sulfur steam coal annually for the US electric utility market, a ...
Tags: Coal Production, Mineral
Capesize iron ore freight rates fell across most routes Thursday, as charterers took advantage of a relatively quiet trading day to press rates down in the Pacific. Fixture activity in the Pacific slowed Thursday after a flurry of ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Limited Fixtures
Nigerian crudes for March loading have sold well with less than 10 cargoes unsold from the March program, because of healthy demand from Europe and India, although the remaining grades were struggling to sell, sources said Wednesday. More ...
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Ultra low sulfur diesel cracks are at a 6-week high on strong buying interest for cargoes in the region and a rise in the front-month 0.1% ICE gasoil futures contract. The crack for physical FOB Rotterdam ULSD barges rose to a $17.04/mt ...
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Offer prices in the Argentinian ferrous scrap market are up 50% in February compared with January levels, a reflection of the steep devaluation of its currency, sources said Wednesday. On January 23, the central bank of Argentina scaled ...
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Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, announced the availability of Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the company's new application that helps link vital areas of ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue for full-year 2013 of $331.7m, down 36% on 2012's $516m, with all of the firm's businesses experiencing down cycles. LED & ...
Tags: Veeco MOCVD MBE ALD, Epitaxial deposition, process equipment, Electrical
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and epiwafer foundry IQE Inc have developed 1.3μm-wavelength indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) lasers grown on silicon (Si) with “record performance” [Alan Y. Liu et al, ...
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Picometrix LLC, a subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc (API) of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation), has been chosen to ...
Researchers associated with Taiwan National Central University and Epistar Corp are developing a method to transfer indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to ceramic aluminium nitride (AlN) substrates for high-voltage ...
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University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
Tags: UV Light Emission, LEDs
The world’s love affair with the smartphone continued unabated in 2013 with consumers snapping up more than 1 billion handsets during the year, according to an IDC estimate published on Wednesday. The figure, which represents a new ...
Tags: Smartphone, global market
Iron ore supply may exceed demand growth rates in China later in 2014 as the nation has recorded slow steel production rates since the start of the year and is currently operating at an annualized rate of 730 million mt, BHP Billiton CEO ...
McLaren Automotive will return to the International Geneva Motor Show this year with its fastest, most engaging, best equipped and most beautiful series-production supercar yet. The McLaren 650S joins the range as an additional model ...
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending February 8, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,839,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.8 percent. Production was 1,875,000 net tons in ...