Despite the booming profits of TiO2 producers in Europe, they still want to diversify their portfolio into speciality pigments to ensure higher profit margins in the long-term. This switch into specialities is causing concern among ...
Tags: TiO2, Europe, coatings producers
In the ongoing race to build ever better flat-screen displays, a potentially disruptive technology has made a small debut at IFA, the consumer electronics show currently taking place in Berlin. In a corner of the booth of Japan's Sharp ...
Tags: disruptive technology, IFA, LCD, IGZO
Chinese mining group MMG Ltd estimated total capital costs of its Dugald River zinc-lead-silver mining project in Australia will hit AUD 1.49 billion(USD 1.57 billion)with production starting a year later than expected. The company said ...
Tags: MMG, Dugald River project, zinc lead silver mining, Chinese mining group
Enterprise Metals has identified four more copper prospects from aircore drilling and soil sampling at its Doolgunna project, 130 kilometers northeast of Meekatharra. Sandfire Resources' DeGrussa Project is located about 10 kilometers to ...
Current bright blue LEDs are based on the wide band gap semiconductors GaN (gallium nitride) and InGaN (indium gallium nitride). They can be added to existing red and green LEDs to produce the impression of white light, though white LEDs ...
Bloomberg reported that workers at Southern Copper Corp, the largest producer of the metal in Peru, plan their first strike in four years on December 24 after wage talks broke down. Smelter union official Ricardo Juarez said that unions ...
Tags: metal, Southern Copper Corp, strike, wage talks, smelter union, copper, zinc
Venturex Resources has completed a Definitive Feasibility Study confirming the robust economics of its Pilbara Copper-Zinc Project.This has found that the project could produce 16,500 tonnes of copper,30,000 tonnes of silver and 200,000 ...
Many companies will now operate with a specific data centre, in which they house much of their technological equipment, including servers and network systems. These data centres are of vital importance to the operations of many businesses ...
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Patch panels are sometimes referred to as patch bays or jackfields, and are rackmounted panels designed to house cable connections. We look into their purpose and important within a server rack. Assembling hardware is normally arranged so ...
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Kazakhstan's refined copper and gold output rose in January to November 2012, while production of alumina, zinc and steel fell compared with the same period last year. Production of refined copper rose by 7.9% YoY to 332,620 tonnes in the ...
Tags: Copper Output, Gold Output, production of alumina, Kazakhstan
Diodes, in general, are made of very thin layers of semiconductor material; one layer will have an excess of electrons, while the next will have a deficit of electrons. This difference causes electrons to move from one layer to another, ...
Tags: LED, Light Emitting Diode
At the new copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) facility of the Solliance collaboration platform in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the first CIGS solar cells have been fabricated, demonstrating solar energy conversion efficiency of ...
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Broking firm Kotak Commodity Services gave following outlook on base metals segments: Copper - MCX Copper may note some decline tracking slight retreat in international markets, however the downside. LME Copper trades slightly lower ...
Reuters reported that demand for base metals in India could rise next week, particularly for copper and zinc, helped by a surge in construction activity and on higher buying of geysers and other heating equipment as winter sets in. ...
Tags: demand for base metals, copper and zinc, heating equipment
It’s not India but China and Iran that Steel Authority of India Ltd might be serving initially from the iron ore mine at Hajigak in Afghanistan for which negotiations are at a final stage and signing of the project likely to happen in ...
Tags: iron ore mine, steel, iron ore, ore