Amid falling prices and rising consumer acceptance, light-emitting diode (LED) technology is taking over the lighting business, spurring a 96% increase for global revenue for packaged LEDs used in lighting applications, from $3.6bn in 2013 ...
Tags: LED market, LED, Electrical, Electronics
LED chip packaging house Everlight Electronics had September 2013 consolidated revenues of NT$2.413 billion (US$80.7 million) hitting a monthly record for the third consecutive time, while LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar saw ...
Tags: LED chip packaging, Lighting
LED makers are aggressively targeting an increase in LED lighting product shipments, and one product introduced in 2013 - the LED fluorescent tube - is already slated for expansion. According to DisplaySearch, the LED tube penetration rate ...
Tags: LED Fluorescent Tube, LED Lighting
The Russian steelmaker Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) said that it plans to ship 427,000 tons of hot rolled (HR) steel products in October, down by 2% from a month ago. Among them, 261,000 tons were expected to ship to domestic ...
Tags: Construction, HR, MMK, steel
Ireland-based Crospon has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its EsoFLIP balloon dilation catheter. The device allows measurements of lumen diameter to be made electrically and it eliminates the patient's ...
Webb Wheel Products and Manus Products have recently been honoured at the Great Dane 2013 Supplier of the Year awards. Webb Wheel Products (OEM Business Unit) was recognized in the large vendor category and Manus Products was honoured in ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
The bedding industry turned in a solid performance in August, with units increasing by 3.5% and the dollar value of bedding shipments rising a healthy 6.9%. The average unit price rose 3.3%, to $212.01. Those figures from the August ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use, Bedding
Bob Sherman, who built Serta into the nation's largest bedding producer, is leaving Serta to pursue other interests, officials announced. His wife, Barbara Bradford, a senior Serta official, is also leaving. No reason for the departures, ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
The Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) reported that its August 2013 booked orders decreased 15.9% when compared to August 2012 orders. August 2013 booked orders when compared to July 2013 booked orders were up 12.8%. ...
Tags: Conveyor Equipment
Widespread improvement in a number of indexes suggests optimism for the manufacturing sector in the next three to six months, according to the quarterly Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) Business Outlook. The ...
The PC market remained weak in the third quarter, but the expiration of Microsoft’s support for Windows XP in April next year may have prompted users to look at upgrades, which eased the slump. About 81.6 million PCs shipped during ...
Tags: Windows XP, PC Market
The PC market moved into its sixth straight quarter of declining sales, analysts reported on Wednesday, although the dip was less pronounced than one firm expected. Market research firm Gartner reported that third-quarter PC sales dipped ...
Intel, whose chips have long gone into PCs, servers and mobile devices, has begun chasing the market for the so-called “Internet of things” with new low-power chips and software for connected devices and data-gathering ...
NEMA’s T5 lamp shipments index sustained a recent growth trend by posting its fourth consecutive quarterly increase during 2013Q2. The index grew by 2.6 percent compared to the previous quarter and 13.3 percent on a year-over-year ...
Tags: Sustained Growth, Fluorescent Lamp
Taiwanese LED packaging manufacturer Edison’s consolidated revenue for September experienced a monthly decrease of 18.89 percent to reached NT$235 million (US$8 million), but grew at a YoY rate of 34.76 percent a monthly decrease of ...
Tags: LED packaging, Lighting