Canadian organic food company SunOpta has completed the acquisition of Sunrise Holdings from investor group led by Paine & Partners for $444m, as part of its strategy to expand its portfolio of frozen fruit and fruit ingredient processing ...
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“The (Chinese) LED industry is in deep waters, and only a few manufacturers will survive in the next few years,” said several industry insiders during recent interviews with LEDinside’s editorial team in China. With the ...
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The global average price of 40W replacement LED light bulbs fell 1.5% in August to US$10.9, while the 60W replacement LED light bulbs fell 2.3% to US$14.9, based on the latest report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. The U.S. was ...
OPPLE Lighting, a leading lighting manufacturer based in Shanghai, China, recently launched a branding campaign extending point of sales with aggressive promotion in Bangkok, Thailand, with an aim to enhance the brand awareness, help the ...
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Taiwanese LED manufacturers revenue performance continued to wane in August, according to Pingan Securities. Revenue performances downed both annually and on a monthly basis, according to statistics released by Taiwanese companies. The ...
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Leading LED chip manufacturer Epistar’s has raised the number of job cuts from the previously announced 65 to about 180, reported UDN. Job cuts at the company’s factories in northern Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park will ...
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This August saw complete production solution specialist White Light once again sponsor London’s Free Open Air Theatre Season at The Scoop in Central London. The season offers a programme of free shows, with the incentive being to ...
Tags: Lighting project, SGM lighting, Outdoor LED luminaires
Chinese manufacturers exported LED lighting goods to India for the first eight months of 2015 reached US $355 million, according to a DIGITIMES report. LED lighting exports to India soared 76.61% annually, broken down into different ...
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Stranded on the barren red planet Mars with few supplies available, astronaut Mark Watney played by Hollywood actor Matt Damon in The Martian is fighting for survival against harsh natural elements. To sustain himself, Damon’s ...
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Next generation OLED TV sales have soared 317% during the first half of 2015, according to a report from Business Korea. Even though OLED TV sales grew exponentially, prices remain the TVs Achilles heel, and make up less than 1% of market ...
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When GE sold its home appliance division in September 2014 for US $3.3 billion to Swedish company Electrolux, market rumors surfaced that the company might sell its lighting business too. The company denied intentions of selling its century ...
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The IATA reports that air freight volumes were broadly unchanged in August compared to a year ago, with freight tonne kilometres 0.2% higher. The August data shows a pause in earlier declines in air freight volumes, consistent with ...
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Valmet will supply a CompactCooking G2 pulp cooking system to bleached paperboard and pulp company Clearwater Paper's mill in Lewiston, in the US state of Idaho. The supply is in line with Clearwater Paper's $160m upgrade project to ...
China's economic data for September may show a stabilizing economy but they can't prevent the third-quarter growth sliding to as low as 6.6 percent, said analysts ahead of the data's release starting next week. "We expect the upcoming ...
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An investigation of the outbreak of Salmonella Poona infections across multiple states in US has caused recall of imported cucumbers. According to the figures of Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Salmonella Poona ...
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