Wilsonart has announced an agreement to acquire Durcon, a manufacturer of laboratory-grade work surfaces. The Taylor, TX-based Durcon provides laboratory tops, student tabletops, sinks and other work surfaces worldwide, and is best known ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced that it has reached agreements with its customers for coking coal and coke sales for the fourth quarter of 2013. Accordingly, NWR has set the average agreed price of ...
Tags: Coking Coal Prices, Mineral
Chip resistor supplier Ralec Electronic saw its revenues rise 10% sequentially to a record high of NT$809 million (US$27.56 million) in the third quarter of 2013, powered by shipments of chip resistors for LED lighting applications. ...
Tags: Chip Lighting, Lighting
Taiwan-based LED packaging houses Everlight Electronics and Unity Opto Technology as well as LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics hold optimistic business outlooks for the fourth quarter of 2013 mainly because demand for LED ...
Tags: Everlight, LED packaging
The average spot market quote for solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer has risen slightly by 1.18% to US$0.86/W, while that for high-efficiency models by 1.09% to US$0.926/W, according to Taiwan-based maker Green Energy Technology ...
Tags: Spot Prices, Silicon Wafers
Some Taiwanese LED manufacturers were affected by decreased backlight shipments, which lead to a clear drop in September revenues, according to LEDinside, a green energy research subsidiary of Trendforce. Korean manufacturers still have ...
Tags: LED Manufacturers, LED Lighting
Fourth-quarter contract price negotiations in the European caustic soda market have concluded at rollover to Eur15/mt price decreases, depending on the region and customer size, market sources said Monday. Most Q4 contracts were settled ...
Tags: Caustic Soda, Chemicals
Israeli pharmaceutical company Protalix BioTherapeutics has announced initial positive results from its Phase I clinical trial of oral glucocerebrosidase (GCD), or oral GCD (PRX-112), in patients with Gaucher disease. In the trial, oral ...
Europe's biggest car maker Volkswagen group is expected to renew the car sales record in the fourth quarter of 2013. Volkswagen said on Friday, in the third quarter of 2013 the public brand cars and light commercial vehicles worldwide sales ...
Tags: Volkswagen, Auto, Transportation, Car
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) generated consolidated revenues of NT$337.862 billion (US$11.3 billion) for September, the highest monthly level so far in 2013 and increasing 20.48% on month and 14.26% on year, according to ...
Tags: Foxconn, Electronics
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 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 ...
Aston Martin has posted a £24.6 million ($41.5 million) loss for 2012 on the back of diminishing demand for its luxury sports cars. The Telegraph in the UK reports demand for the Gaydon-based manufacturer’s high-end V8- and ...
Tags: Aston Martin, Falling Demand
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Lextar Electronics has reported September consolidated revenues reached NT$1.139 billion (US$38.1 million) decreasing 7.89% sequentially but increasing 13.15% on year. LED chip packaging house Unity Opto ...
US-based Binder Biomedical has obtained the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Logic, a new anterior lumbar fixation system designed for use in a direct anterior surgical approach for accessing the intervertebral disc ...
Tags: Spinal Fusion Device, Medicine