Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has rolled back its plan to set up a US$ 5.3 billion methanol plant in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. The negotiations for constructing a methanol complex were stopped after SABIC ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering users a monthlong free trial of a set of system analysis tools that the company is developing. The free offer is one of a number of price cuts and expanded services the company has introduced in the ...
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American Apparel, Inc., a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of branded fashion-basic apparel, announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012. The Company also provided ...
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The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) held its Annual National Bargaining Conference from 28th February to 3rd March 2013, in Cape Town. The Conference was attended by 200 delegates ...
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Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
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Alta Devices has disclosed that it has reached 30.8% solar cell efficiency. This new NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) verified record has resulted from the company's first implementation of a new generation "dual junction" solar ...
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Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA says that the first implementation of its new-generation dual-junction solar cell technology (augmenting its single-junction technology) has set an energy conversion efficiency record of 30.8% for ...
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AKHAN Technologies Inc of Hoffman Estates, IL, USA has been granted exclusive diamond semiconductor application licensing rights to low-temperature diamond deposition technology developed by the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the ...
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Reportedly, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the Gulf Cooperation Council's largest steel producer, will aim to increase its wire rod annual production capacity to 700,000 tons in the second quarter of this year. Meanwhile, ...
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The Renault Captur urban crossover has been unveiled at the Geneva motor show today ahead of its anticipated launch in Australia in 2014. The Captur, which is the second car by Renault’s new head of design, Laurens van den Acker, ...
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Fujitsu promises that its Lifebook E Line laptops will use all the same standard components, including the main board, drives for the modular expansion bay and AC adaptors, despite coming in screen sizes from 13.3 inches to 15.6 inches. ...
Canton Fair has reached new attendance peak in 2012 No doubt, the Canton Fair with its ever expanding exhibition buildings and numbers of visitors is an impressive event. Yet the ever growing exhibition space and amount of suppliers makes a ...
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Trading company Trading companies are middlemen between you and factories. Good trading companies can add a lot of value. A good trading company often knows the right supplier for your product, manages the supplier, does quality control ...
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Most companies that do not have extensive experience negotiating in China tend to follow the same negotiation strategy as they would in their home country, mistakenly believing that applying a few Chinese customs to their set negotiation ...
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Handling original equipment manufacturing (OEM) contracts in China can be a bit of a minefield, especially for the new-to-China business. Stories of molds and design IP being ripped off and then sold by your own supplier are legendary. Here ...
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