Oil producers are currently doing a good job of balancing world oil market fundamentals, but it is too early to say if OPEC will leave crude production levels unchanged when it next meets in December, UAE oil minister Suhail al-Mazrouei ...
Tags: Oil Producers, Oil Minister
Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Gigastorage has reported September consolidated revenues of NT$648 million (US$21.7 million), rising 76.22% on year and by 8.07% on month, according to the company. Gigastorage's third-quarter ...
Tags: crystalline silicon, wafer
Solar-grade crystalline silicon ingot and wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.16 billion (US$39.3 million) for September 2013, the highest monthly level since October 2011 and increasing ...
Tags: crystalline silicon, wafer
Biodiesel has faced a backlash in recent years, as critics charge the industry with razing land and pushing up food costs. But as its competitors struggle, one Hong Kong-based company is moving ahead with a US$165 million plant that turns ...
Tags: Biodiesel Plant, Energy
Showa Denko (SDK) is launching silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers with a diameter of 6 inches (150mm) - the largest size currently available, it is claimed - for use in power devices. The firm is also selling a new grade of 4-inch ...
Tags: Epiwafers, Inverter Power Devices
In July this year, Liberty Commodities had officially confirmed its negotiation and completion of the acquisition of Wales-based hot rolled coil (HRC) producer MIR Steel (formerly known as Alpha Steel) on behalf of a consortium of ...
On September 25, Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel Co.(Chongqing Steel), a subsidiary of Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co., announced that its major asset restructuring plan has received conditional or preliminary approval from ...
Tags: Iron and Steel, Mineral
Global PV production capacity is not expected to significantly increase in the near future and therefore there will not be any large PV capital expenditure before 2015, according to senior marketing manager Wesley Skinner for Applied ...
Tags: PV Capital, Lighting
With more and more smartphones and other portable devices adopting sapphire as cover glass, sapphire ingot vendor Sapphire Technology Company (STC) is looking to double its production capacity to meet the anticipated growth in demand, ...
Taiwna-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker Solartech Energy has reported consolidated revenues of NT$701 million (US$23.4 million) for September, the highest monthly level since July 2012 with on-month growth of 7.51% and on-year ...
Tags: crystalline silicon, solar cell
The market is focused on the moment that LED industry can leave oversupply behind. China LED chip manufacturers growing number of new MOCVD equipment in 2014 will no doubt put pressure on the LED industry demand and supply. China’s ...
Tags: LED Demand, LED industry
Brisa Bridgestone Sabanc Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret, an affiliated company of Japanese tire maker Bridgestone, has signed an agreement with Aksaray Province Organized Industrial Zone over the purchase of a site for the construction of a new ...
Tags: Passenger Car, Radial Tire
Methanex Corporation has reached a number of key milestones with respect to its near-term capacity growth objectives in New Zealand, Canada and Chile. On October 4, 2013, the company successfully produced its first methanol from the newly ...
Tags: Operating Capacity, Methanex
The supply and demand situation for the LED industry has affected LED prices. The amount of demand in the lighting market leads industry insiders to predict that by 2015 supply and demand will be roughly equal. Foreign investment firm ...
Tags: Global Demand, Lighting
Bob Evans Farms, a US-based food company, has shut down its sausage production facility in Richardson, Texas, putting more than 100 jobs at risk. The company said that its decision will allow its BEF Foods division to better manage ...