In April this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 8.4 percent year on year and decreased by 3.6 percent compared to March to $1.57 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Export
Taiwan-based EMS provider Lite-On Technology posted a gross margin of 12.41% for the first quarter of 2014, the lowest quarterly level since the first quarter of 2008, the company announced at a May 13 investors conference. Mainly due to ...
Tags: Solid-State Drives, Lite-On
PV silver conductive paste is currently in short supply due to a shortage of silver powder. The shortage will continue until July-August 2014, chairman Chen Chi-jen of Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials said at a ...
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While Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been generally shifting to, or increasing production of, monocrystalline solar cells to meet growing demand, Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers are ...
Northwest European spot prices for vinyl acetate monomer tumbled Eur70/mt Thursday under pressure from Asian imports, according to Platts data. The European spot price for VAM was assessed at Eur1,560/mt FD NWE ($2,162.63/mt), down from ...
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LED package industry market scale reached US$7.2 billion in 2013, up 20% from the year before, according to LEDinside. China has become the largest maker of LED products, and the rapidly increasing LED lighting penetration rate in the ...
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Sharp Solar returned to the top of the solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipment rankings during the first quarter of 2014, after a five year absence, according to Solarbuzz. Sharp was the solar PV industry market leader for 45 years ...
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Epistar, the largest Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, posted consolidated revenues of NT$2.510 billion (US$83.0 million) for April, its highest monthly figure on record, with growth of 5.92% on month and 30.81% on year, and ...
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UNIQLO Australia has officially announced plans for Sydney. Set to open its doors in MidCity this Spring / Summer, the store will be located at the heart of the iconic Pitt Street Mall - arguably Sydney's most popular shopping and fashion ...
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Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel Corporation (CSC) has announced that in April this year its carbon steel sales volume decreased by 3.55 percent to 807,346 metric tons, compared to March, accounting for 65 percent of domestic sales. ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA says that its filtering solutions and multi-band, multi-mode PA modules (MMPAs) for LTE smartphones have captured 18 reference ...
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy plans to merge with PV module maker Apollo Solar Energy, a subsidiary solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), while GET plans to merge with fellow maker Utech Solar, a Gintech ...
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Major China-based solar wafer makers reportedly have contacted Taiwan-based fellow makers about the possibility of mergers. Taiwan-based makers, due to continued operating losses arising from low product prices, may agree, according to ...
Tags: solar wafer, GCL-Poly
Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) suffered a net loss of NT$131 million (US$4.3 million) for the first quarter, an improvement from the net loss of NT$671 million posted for the preceding ...
Tags: Green Energy, Taiwan, Lights, Lighting
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released its ranking of the top 10 countries for LEED® outside of the United States, demonstrating the global reach of the movement that is transforming the built environment into healthy, ...
Tags: Construction, Coating