The domestic iron and steel industry began to turn a profit in July largely driven by the rebound of market demands and steel prices, but this may be hard to maintain in the fourth quarter as the cost of raw materials will increase, the ...
Tags: Steel, Iron, Construction
US-based Moirai Orthopaedics has obtained CE Mark approval for its new Pyrocarbon Implant Replacement (PIR) system, designed to treat patients with focal chondral and osteochondral defects of the medial femoral condyle of the knee. The ...
The Alkaline Water has signed a letter of intent (LoI) to acquire the North Cove Bottling plant located on 5.4 acres of land in Marion, North Carolina. According to Alkaline Water, the transaction would bring calculated logistical ...
Tags: Alkaline Water, Bottling Plant
FAW Jiefang, after a surprising growth in both sales and market share in July also achieves good marketing results in August, a traditional off-season. A total of 13,000 MD and HD trucks are sold, up by 56.5% over the same period of last ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto
Alkaline Water, a US-based producer of alkaline water, has signed a letter of intent (LoI) to acquire the North Cove Bottling Plant in Marion, North Carolina. The acquisition is expected to provide logistical advantage to Alkaline Water ...
Tags: Alkaline Water, Bottling Plant
Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to grow 5.1 percent in September over the same month last year as retailers head into the holiday season, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report ...
Tags: container ports, Apparel
Assurant, a US-based provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, has agreed to acquire British mobile phone insurance provider Lifestyle Services in an all-cash deal of $160m from Phones 4u Finance. ...
Tags: Assurant, Mobile Phone Insurance
Quintain Steel, one of the major carbon steel wire products re-rollers in Southern Taiwan announced that its profit after taxation totaled NT$3 million in July, in comparison of the loss of NT$78 million in June. The company believed that ...
Tags: Quintain Steel, Construction, Steel
Due to falling steel prices and the weak demand in the Taiwanese domestic market, Taiwanese Tung Ho Steel's second-quarter sales were not as good as the figures in the same period of the previous year. Since the steel rebar prices have ...
Tags: taiwan, Steel, Construction
Ahlstrom is increasing prices in the fourth quarter of 2013 for its filtration materials globally. Ahlstrom says that the price increases will be made to compensate for the continued rise in raw material costs such as speciality pulps, ...
Solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.128 billion (US$37.6 million) for August, the highest monthly level since October 2011 with on-month growth of 1.23% ...
Tags: polycrystalline silicon, Lighting
Panel makers maintained high utilization rates for large-size TV panels in August 2013 while shipments only grew slightly. This has lead to high reserves and a decline in pricing for the panels as a result, which could last until the fourth ...
Tags: Panel Pricing, Shipment Growth
Motech Industries plans to expand its PV module production capacity in fourth-quarter 2013 and crystalline silicon solar cell capacity in 2014, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN). Motech currently has annual ...
In the world of 4K television – that’s TV with four times the resolution of today’s high-def sets — size is king, because you really need a big screen to benefit from all those extra pixels. But at this ...
Qualcomm on Wednesday announced its own smartwatch that will have a low-power Mirasol display and be compatible with Android mobile devices. The smartwatch, called Toq (pronounced “talk”), will ship in the fourth quarter this ...
Tags: Qualcomm, Mirasol Display