Turkish pipemaker Özbal Çelik Boru has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. In the second quarter, Özbal registered a net loss of TRY 3.93 million ($2.03 million), compared to ...
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SunOpta, a Canada-based organic, specialty and natural health products manufacturer, has completed the installation of two additional flexible re-sealable pouch filling lines at its Allentown, Pennsylvania facility. This development ...
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Canadian food processing and packaging company SunOpta has completed the installation of two additional flexible re-sealable pouch filling lines at its Allentown, Pennsylvania facility in the US. The installation will bring the facility's ...
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Taiwan-based Gigastorage has completed expansion of production capacity for high-efficiency solar-grade silicon wafers and expects monthly shipments to increase to more than 10 million units later in the second half of 2013, according to ...
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Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has announced its merger with Sunrise Global Solar Energy, a manufacturer of P-type monocrystalline silicon solar cells, through a stock swap where one SAS ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that in July this year it put a continuous bloom caster into operation at Chinese steel producer Changzhou Zhongtian Iron & Steel (Zenith Steel). The continuous bloom caster ...
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In order to stimulate the sales of OLED TV, Samsung announced to cut the price of its 55-inch curved OLED (organic light emitting diode) TVs by 34%. In addition, the increasing market competition and failure in lawsuit lead to divestment of ...
A mature LED market has seen a surge in demands this year. Upstream die manufacturers one by one are transforming their market strategies in response to continual decrease in prices. Chinese manufacturer Hong Hai has been dropping prices ...
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Miner and trader Glencore Xstrata (GLEN.L) reported copper production increased by a fifth in the first six months of 2013, driven by the ramp-up of mines replacing depleted operations and a stronger performance in Congo. Glencore, which ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that Metal Ravne, part of Slovenian Steel Group (SIJ), has placed an order with SMS INNSE S.p.A., Italy, and SMS Mevac GmbH, Germany, for the planning, delivery and erection of a secondary ...
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Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Genesis Photonics Inc. (GPI) announced record high revenues in July of NT$ 368 million (US$ 12.32 million), as lighting products revenue ratio jumped to 50%. Increased shipments in flip-chips, 3D COB ...
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Epistar’s board recently approved a NT$1 billion (US$33.43 million) capital investment plan in a wholly owned Taiwanese subsidiary company that was originally a factory of Huga Optotech, according to Epistar. To meet client demands, ...
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The oversupply of LED die still exists; however, the demand for LED lighting fixture is expected to achieve explosive growth in next year under the great support of lighting equipment factories in the mainland China, highly anticipated next ...
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Tong Hsin Electronics Industry’s (THEI) will be raising the bar for competitors by increasing ceramic substrate laser drilling speed and adding packaging services as LED chip piece volumes used on substrates grow exponentially, said ...
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Taiwan-based EMS provider Lite-On Technology reported its July consolidated revenue of NT$17.89 billion, up 4% M-o-M and 3% Y-o-Y. Revenue continued to grow in all of Lite-On’s Strategic Business Groups (SBG), of which Power SBG, ...
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