Counter bids for May Asian Contract Price for paraxylene were in a range of $1,040-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Tuesday. There are four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and JX Nippon Oil ...
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Taiwan LED chip makers expect to benefit from orders from Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics for direct-type LED TVs as of the second quarter of 2014. Despite orders fluctuating from vendors in the China market, the Taiwan makers ...
Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) has delivered three new battery electric transit buses to the Taiwan-based MiaoLi Motor Transportation for local use. The delivery is part of the several battery electric transit buses ordered to ...
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Taiwan-based ODMs Ability Enterprise, Altek, Asia Optical and Foxconn Electronics will ship 2.703 million digital cameras in total in the second quarter of 2014, increasing 14.2% on quarter but decreasing 53.5% on year, according to ...
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Oyxlane, the French parent company of Decathlon, reported sales increased 6.1 percent in 2013 to €7.4 billion ($9.8 bn) in 2013 on comparable store sales growth of 1.3 percent. Sales had risen 7.2 percent to €7.0 billion in 2012 ...
There will be 61.42 million tablets shipped globally in the second quarter of 2014, increasing 4.9% on quarter and 30.9% on year, according to Digitimes Research. The shipments will consist of 13.5 million iPads, 24.62 million ...
Tags: Tablet, Electronics, iPads
Taiwan's economic growth rate, on-year growth in GDP, in the first quarter of 2014 has been upward adjusted from 3.02% estimated in February 2014 to 3.04%, according to advance estimates released by the Directorate General of Budget, ...
U.S. manufacturers have grown more competitive over the past decade compared with factories in China, Brazil, and most of the world’s other major economies. So says a new private study, which found that rising wages and higher ...
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The complaint alleges that Beijing KMT Technology Co., Ltd (Beijing KMT) infringed Dow Corning's Chinese patent by manufacturing and selling products using proprietary Dow Corning silicone technology under the Beijing KMT label. The ...
The total electricity used in industrial, commercial, residential and public (including street lamps) lighting in Taiwan in 2013 has been estimated at 22 billion kWh, and if all lighting had used LEDs, the total power consumption could have ...
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Acer has set an internal goal of shipping 10 million smartphones and 10 million tablets in 2014, increasing from the 1.5 million and five million shipped in 2013, according to Acer's Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Acer regained ...
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Taiwan-based touchscreen controller IC vendors are expanding their product lines to include other IC parts such as LCD driver ICs, ambient light sensors, fingerprint recognition chips and analog ICs as a means to fend off the adverse ...
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LED packaging house Unity Opto Technology has acquired an existing factory in northern Taiwan at NT$1.23 billion (US$40.7 million) specifically for expanding LED lighting production capacity to meet expected increases in orders mainly from ...
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Japan-based PV vendor Sharp plans to hike the required energy conversion rates for P-type monocrystalline silicon solar cells its procures over the next 3-6 months, putting pressure to improve energy conversion rates on Taiwan-based makers, ...
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Taiwan-based flip-chip LED makers generated a total production value of US$11.63 million in the first quarter of 2014, taking up 3.1% of total LED production value, and flip-chip LED production value in 2014 is expected to reach US$160 ...