Lite-On Technology has reported that its fourth-quarter 2013 consolidated sales reached NT$59.36 billion (US$1.95 billion), up 12% on year and 4% on quarter, hitting a 10-quarter record high. Net profits were NT$2.52 billion, up 9% on year ...
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Port Waratah Coal Services' export terminals at Australia's Newcastle port shipped 2.35 million mt of mostly thermal coal to China in March, down 6% from February, the operator said in a report Tuesday. China's offtake represented 26.3% ...
Tags: Coal, thermal coal, coal shipments
With the global economy on the mend, Taiwan's machinery exports for the first two months of this year totaled US$2.854 billion, up 7.5% from the same period of last year, according to the latest statistics by Ministry of Economic Affairs ...
Tags: taiwan, Machinery, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
The global semiconductor industry will remain promising in the second and third quarters of 2014, according to Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The production value of Taiwan’s ...
Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) on March 27 released its financial report for 2013, recording consolidated revenues of NT$13.258 billion (US$444 million), gross margin of negative 12%, ...
China-based PV maker Solargiga Energy swung from a net loss of CNY136.4 million (US$22 million) in the first half of 2013 to net profit of CNY927,000 in the second, resulting in a net loss of CNY135.5 million for 2013, according to the ...
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Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
Counter bids for the April Asian Contract Price for paraxylene are seen to come in at around $1,050-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. The four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and ...
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Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) Chairman Hsu Hsiu-tsang predicts the island's machine-tool exports to rise at least 10% year on year, to US$4 billion this year, as long as the American market and the ASEAN (Association of ...
Tags: Machine Tool Industry, Machinery Industry, machine-tool exports
AU Optronics (AUO) is organizing a subsidiary, Star River Energy, specifically as a platform to invest in PV systems and solar power-generating stations, according to AUO. AUO plans to introduce financial investors in Star River, the ...
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While the US Department of Commerce is conducting an anti-dumping investigation of China-based PV module makers and their cell suppliers in Taiwan, the China makers reportedly have asked their government to talk with the US about setting ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) published in Tuesday’s Federal Register its preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of non-oriented electrical steel from China, Korea, and Taiwan. Accordingly, ...
German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a semi-continuous billet mill for Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, the new integrated steel plant Taiwan-based Formosa Group is building in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. The produced billets ...
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The first-ever Spring/Summer 2014/2015 edition of Taipei IN Style (TIS), an all-in-one trade fair that aims to promote the Taiwanese fashion and textile industries, is set to take place from April 17 to 19, 2014, in Taipei. Aiming to ...
Tags: fashion industries, textile industries, fashion brands
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has selected Taiwan-based solar cell makers Motech Industries and Gintech Energy as respondents to its anti-dumping investigation. There were 24 Taiwan-based solar cell makers answering a DOC ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Probe, Motech, Gintech