Electric motors and motion subsystems firm Johnson Electric Holdings will purchase Stackpole International group of companies, an engine and transmission pumps powder metal components supplier for automotive sector in a deal valued at ...
Tags: Electric motors, motion subsystems
For fiscal third-quarter 2015 (to end-June), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA (which provides compound semiconductor-based chip-level devices, optical components, subsystems and systems for broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets) has ...
For fiscal 2015 (ended 27 June), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $341.3m, down 12.7% on fiscal 2014's $390.9m. This is due to a 25% ...
Tags: laser product, telecom products
Although Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), reportedly the world's No.1 pure IC assembler, posted reduced earnings in the second quarter, the company remains upbeat about its business outlook for the third quarter due to having ...
After prices for LED chips and packaging services fell 10-17% in first-half 2015, prices are expected to be stable in third-quarter 2015 due to peak demand, but may fall again in fourth-quarter 2015 and first-quarter 2016 due to slow ...
Tags: LED market, LED Prices
For the second quarter ended June 30, 2015, apparel sales at German sports goods and sportswear marketer Puma were broadly flat at € 263.3 million from the same quarter of previous year. “This is against high comparables in the ...
Tags: sports goods, sportswear
In line with its strategy to focus its consumer board offering on high quality virgin fibre products, Stora Enso has sold its Barcelona mill, which produces recycled fibre based consumer board, to private equity fund Quantum. “The ...
Tags: virgin fibre, recycled-fibre
BASF and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) will build a new world-scale production plant for highly reactive polyisobutene (HR-PIB) at the site of their existing joint venture, BASF PETRONAS Chemicals Sdn Bhd, in Kuantan, Malaysia. ...
Tags: chemicals, coating, BASF, PETRONAS Chemicals Group, paint and pigment
Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF) is planning to raise close to $380m, which will fund its planned acquisition of Bumble Bee Seafoods. TUF will offer up to 795.3 million new shares to its existing shareholders at $0.4685 each, Reuters ...
Tags: food, Bumble Bee Seafoods
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its ...
Smartphone-use lens module maker Largan Precision recorded net EPS of NT$68.82 (US$2.23) for the first half of 2015, the company said at a July 16 investors conference. Of smartphone-use lens modules shipped in the second quarter, ...
Tags: Smartphone, lens module
For fiscal third-quarter 2015 (ended 31 May), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $3.5m, down 23% on $4.6m both last quarter and a year ago but at the mid-point of the $3-4m guidance range. ...
Tags: SemiLEDs, LED lighting
Ascena Retail Group has updated its outlook for the full fiscal ended July 25, 2015 and has said that its adjusted earnings per diluted share will rise between 22 and 25 per cent over its previous outlook. In a press release, Ascena added ...
Tags: apparel and clothing, apparel
Changs Ascending Enterprise Co., Ltd. (CAEC), a supplier of lithium-iron phosphate oxide (LiFexMyPOz) cathode materials, and a Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE)-listed firm, recently claimed that it will copy its successful Japanese market ...
Tags: Cathode-material, CAEC, lithium-iron phosphate, machinary equipments
Automobile major Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has drafted $280m investment plan for funding the production of new Jeep vehicle as part of its joint venture Fiat India Automobiles, floated with Tata Motors. The amount will be for its ...
Tags: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, automobile parts, new Jeep vehicles