China reported robust exports for January, but assessing the nation’s true economic strength is no easy task. The Lunar New Year holidays that began at the end of January apparently created an export surgeA transient variation in the ...
Tags: Export Data, economic strength
A US anti-dumping investigation is targeting PV modules imported from China. However, because Taiwan crystalline silicon solar cell makers generally are suppliers for China-based PV module makers, the Taiwan Photovoltaic Industry ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Probe, PV
China produced 26GWp of PV modules in 2013, growing 13% on year. China was the largest producing country for the seventh consecutive year, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Of the output, 16GWp or 61.5% was exported, and Europe was ...
China's National Energy Administration has set a target total capacity of 10GWp for PV systems to be installed in China in 2014. The agency said 60% of the target capacity is for distributed PV systems and 40% for PV power-generating ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV systems
Most local LED driver IC vendors in China outperformed international and Taiwan-based rival companies in terms of shipments in 2013. Bright Power Semiconductor and Silan Microelectronics were the top-two LED driver IC suppliers in China in ...
Tags: LED Driver, IC Vendors
In December last year, Turkey's stainless flat steel imports rose by 66.1 percent year on year and increased by 12.63 percent compared to the previous month to 44,427 metric tons, following the 0.48 percent month-on-month decrease recorded ...
Tags: Stainless Flat Steel, Mineral
In January of the current year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 0.58 percent year on year and by 5.25 compared to the previous month to $1.56 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by the Taiwanese ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Export
Taiwan's state-owned CPC sold 1.35 million mt of bunker fuel in 2013, up 2.6% from a year earlier, a company source said Friday. There are two bunker suppliers in Taiwan, while CPC covers more than 90% of supply there, the source added. ...
Tags: Bunker Fuel, Mineral
In the third quarter of 2013, world stainless crude steel output stood at 9.32 million mt, up 8.6 percent year on year and up one percent quarter on quarter, according to the preliminary report released by the International Stainless Steel ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has received orders with shipments scheduled through the second quarter of 2014, according to the company. Epistar said it has fully utilized its production capacity in Taiwan. It expects the ...
Tags: Epistar, LED epitaxial wafer, LED chip
Semiconductor material distributor Wah Lee Industrial is expected to see its revenues decrease within a range of 5% in the first quarter of 2014 thanks to strong sales of silicon wafers in China and rising demand for semiconductor materials ...
Tags: silicon, Semiconductor material, photoresists, chemicals
Asia-Pacific is the world's largest and fastest-growing market of UV curable resins, which consumed more than half of the total global demand, and also a major consumer of radiation/energy curable products. China and Japan are the key ...
Tags: UV curable resins, formulation of UV curable coatings, inks, adhesives
Polysilicon quotes in the China market have risen from US$24/kg in January to US$25/kg currently because the China government has imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariff rates on materials produced by some US- and South ...
Tags: Polysilicon, China market
PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials posted consolidated revenues of NT$750 million (US$24.8 million) for January, hitting a record for the seventh consecutive month and increasing 28.69% on month and 93.59% on year, according to ...
Tags: Giga Solar, Solar Materials
Flooded by orders in the first quarter of 2014 and upbeat about business for the second quarter, Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers will inaugurate expansion plans earlier than originally scheduled. Industry executives point out that ...
Tags: Taiwan, Machine Tool, Machine Accessory, machining centers