Indonesian thermal coal exporters are now required to produce a certificate clearing the miner to produce coal before they ship material overseas, a government official said. The latest move is the second regulatory obstacle encountered ...
Tags: Coal Exporters, Regulatory Hurdle
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and epiwafer foundry IQE Inc have developed 1.3μm-wavelength indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) lasers grown on silicon (Si) with “record performance” [Alan Y. Liu et al, ...
Tags: Silicon, `Quantum Dot Lasers
Researchers associated with Taiwan National Central University and Epistar Corp are developing a method to transfer indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to ceramic aluminium nitride (AlN) substrates for high-voltage ...
Tags: InGaN LED, Ceramic Substrate
University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
Tags: UV Light Emission, LEDs
China reported robust exports for January, but assessing the nation’s true economic strength is no easy task. The Lunar New Year holidays that began at the end of January apparently created an export surgeA transient variation in the ...
Tags: Export Data, economic strength
The world’s love affair with the smartphone continued unabated in 2013 with consumers snapping up more than 1 billion handsets during the year, according to an IDC estimate published on Wednesday. The figure, which represents a new ...
Tags: Smartphone, global market
McLaren Automotive will return to the International Geneva Motor Show this year with its fastest, most engaging, best equipped and most beautiful series-production supercar yet. The McLaren 650S joins the range as an additional model ...
The US Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development jointly announced Wednesday that privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in January were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 937,000. This is ...
Tags: Housing Completions
Brazil's motor vehicle output in January this year increased by 2.9 percent from the previous month and decreased by 18.7 percent year on year to 237,491 units (excluding agricultural vehicles), according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, Mineral
On February 19, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in early February (Feb. 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.761 million mt, ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
On February 13, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in late January (Jan. 21-31) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.6594 million mt, ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
Mexican steel producer DeAcero released a request Thursday that the US Department of Commerce avoid trade disputes with Mexico and focus on the defense of NAFTA regions, which receive unfair imports from China and the European Union. In ...
Tags: DeAcero, Rebar Mills
“2013 was the most profitable year ever for the Trelleborg Group, despite the fact that the anticipated economic recovery did not materialize. We further strengthened our market positions and closed in on the long-term targets we have ...
Tags: Net Sales, Trelleborg
China's drive to transform its economy, which includes reducing the role of energy-intensive industries and paring steel capacity, is driving up coal inventories at key ports as demand across a variety of sectors weakens. Inventories at ...
A new natural gas discovery in southeast Sichuan province - the single biggest ever - could ease domestic shortages in as little as a year and give China a stronger hand in energy negotiations with Russia, according to some experts. China ...
Tags: natural gas, domestic shortages