At the recently held International Cotton Association’s (ICA) ‘Raw Cotton Contracting’ training workshop in Turkey, ninety Turkish cotton professionals attended the workshop. “Specially developed for people working ...
Belgian manufacturer ThermoFlexX, a part of Xeikon Prepress, has installed its first ThermoFlexX 80-S imager in Europe at digital flexo platemaking company AtoutFlex. The equipment is capable of exposing plates up to 1,270 x 2,032 mm at ...
Some first-tier China-based PV makers reportedly plan to stop production of crystalline silicon solar cells and then focus operation on producing PV modules and undertaking PV EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) projects, Taiwan PV ...
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BorgWarner has announced plan to increase its production capacity at Ningbo facility in China by adding a production line for its exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valves. ERG is engineered to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions for ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that its SkyOne Mini front-end solution is enabling several new smartphone launches. SkyOne Mini, a derivative of the SkyOne ...
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After two tough years of stagnation, in 2014 the power semiconductor device market returned to growth, rising by 8.4% to $11.5bn, according to the report 'Status of the Power Electronics Industry (February 2015 edition)' from Yole ...
Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, which provides assembly and test services for niche ICs and produces ceramic substrates for the manufacture of LEDs, expects its capex for 2015 to exceed NT$1.5 billion (US$47.8 million). The capex will be ...
The Japan government plans to reduce feed-in tariffs for PV systems and power-generating stations with installation capacity of over 10KWp to JPY27 (US$0.23)/kWh beginning July 2015, which is expected to significantly decrease total ...
Tags: PV Module, Feed-in Tariff
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is ramping up production of its 100G LR4 CFP4 client-side transceivers. Oclaro says that, having previously delivered CFP and ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched its next-generation diversity receive modules (DRx) for LTE smartphones. The firm says that its newest DRx modules improve ...
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For full-year 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $508.2m, up 10.7% on $459m for 2013. 5N Plus provides purified metals such as bismuth, gallium, ...
Tags: 5N Plus, Commodity Pricing
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung - or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research - Baden-Württemberg) of Stuttgart, Germany has boosted the efficiency of cadmium-free copper indium gallium diselenide ...
Tags: ZSW CIGS, Solar Cells
LED lighting technology firm Flip Chip Opto Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has announced its P-Series of high-power LED flip-chip/chip-on-board (COB) products. The high-performance lighting modules consist of patented 3-Pad LED flip chips with a ...
Tags: Flip Chip, LED lighting
Diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany has expanded the wavelength range of its tailored bar-based, scalable concept with its new high-brightness fiber-laser pump module delivering up to 240W optical output power at 915nm. Based on ...
Tags: Diode laser, Fiber-Laser Pump
PV systems and PV power-generating stations established and connected to power grids in China in 2014 had a total installation capacity of 10.60GWp, taking up 25% of the global total, according to China's National Energy Administration ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV systems