For northerners that lovely time of year between shoveling snow and mowing the lawn is about to end. And now, before the blades of grass reach an unsightly height, is the best time to make sure your mower is in working order. If you put it ...
Tags: Mower, Consumer Electronics
In March this year, the purchasing managers’ index (PMI) of China’s steel sector decreased to 44.6 percent, sharply down 14.3 percentage points compared to the previous month, as announced by the China Steel Logistics Committee ...
Tags: Chinese Steel Sector, PMI, Mineral
With the media days at the New York International Auto Show behind us, the cars team has had time to reflect on the approximately 1,000 vehicles on display. Many new models made impressions, and some were utterly forgettable. To share our ...
Tags: Transportation, Cars
LCD panel makers in Taiwan, Japan and Korea have been suffering. Despite the growing demand for LCDs the high number of panel makers and new competition from China has resulted in tough price competition for panel makers, to the point that ...
Tags: LED, LCD, Electrical, Electronics, LCD panel
Stung by plunging sales in Japan and declining demand in North America and Western Europe, global television shipments in 2012 fell, marking a major inflection point that will have a lasting impact on the market, according to an IHS iSuppli ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
As of April 1, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 73.21 million mt, up 620,000 mt or 0.85 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of April 1, the Xinhua-China Iron Ore Price ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
The next-generation Subaru WRX is less than a year away from being shown in production form, after this design concept was revealed at the 2013 New York auto show. Although Subaru was tight-lipped about specification details and timing, ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Transportation
Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), noted in August 2012 that the firm had changed its position in relation to investments in solar cell maker Motech, shifting from strategic purposes to ...
Tags: solar industry, solar
Sharp Corp. is considering selling a Polish factory where it has been assembling liquid crystal display televisions for the European market as part of turnaround efforts, Kyodo News reported Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter. ...
Tags: liquid crystal display, Sharp, liquid crystal display televisions
In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
German packaging firm Multivac has launched a vacuum chamber equipment for the packaging long food products such as cylindrical sausages and certain varieties of whole fish. Equipped with a 1.4m-wide chamber, the C 800 vacuum chamber ...
Tags: Food Products, Food, cylindrical sausages
The more established shutter glass 3D technology now faces competition from the film patterned retarder technology as the demand for 3D TV rises, notes NPD DisplaySearch. According to the NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Display Optical Film ...
Tags: 3D TV, Shutter Glass Technology
Quantum dots will cascade into the marketplace. They offer lower cost, longer life, and brighter lighting, according to WinterGreen Research’s new study Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display (QLED) Market Shares, Strategy, and ...
Tags: QLED market, Dot LED, LED lighting
China's National Development and Reform Commission on Thursday refuted local media reports that it was planning to raise the price of natural gas. In a statement on its website, the NDRC said media reports about a sharp rise in natural ...
Tags: natural gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Multivac, a global supplier of packaging solutions, is all set to exhibit its new C 800 vacuum chamber machineat IFFA 2013, a trade fair for meat processing industry that will be held from 4 to 9 May 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany. C 800, ...
Tags: Single Chamber Machine, Frankfurt Trade Fair, Packaging