China s State Development and Investment Corporation (SDIC) has continued its plans for international expansion by expressing its intention to invest US$200 million in a new cement plant in Indonesia. The cement plant would be based in the ...
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Illinois is trying to persuade Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), the world’s largest construction and mining- equipment maker, that its home state is the best location to build a factory that will employ more than 1, 000 people. “We have ...
LED chipmaker Genesis Photonics has completed the construction of its third plant, located at the Tainan Science Park (TSP). Genesis will install a 6-inch epitaxial wafer production line in the plant. David Chung, chairman of Geneis ...
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JTEKT CORPORATION (JTEKT; Nagoya, Japan; President: Shoji Ikawa) is pleased to announce that we established a new production plant in Indonesia, and we will start the local production of bearings from coming December 2011. Since October ...
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LED sapphire ingot maker Alpha Xtal and substrate maker Tera Xtal will merge on December 10. According to Alpha Xtal, revenues for November and December are likely to be flat compared to October. The firm believes demand will return in ...
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The Hatch Solar Energy Centre’s Amonix CPV systems incorporate the world’s most efficient compound semiconductor multijunction solar cells and advanced optics to convert more sunlight into electricity than conventional solar ...
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The Hatch Solar Energy Centre’s Amonix CPV systems incorporate the world’s most efficient compound semiconductor multijunction solar cells and advanced optics to convert more sunlight into electricity than conventional solar ...
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US-based NatureWorks is set to build a new manufacturing plant in Thailand after announcing a $150m (€108.7m) investment from PTT Chemical, Thailand’s largest chemical producer. NatureWorks, which until now was wholly owned by ...
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Recently, Taiwan’s No.1 lamp maker, China Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.,has annonuced to inject US$30 million to form a new company in Xiamen of mainland China to manufacture general lighting fixtures, LED lamps and lithium iron phosphate ...
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Tightness in raw material supplies has sent North American prices for PET bottle resin up by an average of 4 cent per pound since Sept. 1. Paraxylene feedstock, in particular, has been in tight supply, according to buyers contacted recently ...
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Recently, a plant of Epicrystal, a subsidiary of Taiwanese LED maker Epistar, in Changzhou, Jiangsu, was officially inaugurated, underlying Epistar’s endeavor of making inroads into the Chinese market. Mr. Biing-jye Lee, the Chairman ...
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Recently, a plant of Epicrystal, a subsidiary of Taiwanese LED maker Epistar, in Changzhou, Jiangsu, was officially inaugurated, underlying Epistar’s endeavor of making inroads into the Chinese market. Mr. Biing-jye Lee, the ...
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Kansai Electric Power Co. has finished building Japan's largest solar power plant, a 10,000-kilowatt facility in Osaka Prefecture capable of generating enough electricity to run about 3,000 households. It has also started testing a ...
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West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. has begun constructing a compression molding plant in Shanghai, China, to handle new growth and expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. While West is growing in Asia, it's consolidating in the U. S. ...
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The Obama administration provided a loan guarantee of $737 million to SolarReserve on Thursday to construct the first large-scale solar power plant that stores energy and provides electricity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The solar power ...
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