EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers for 600V high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) power semiconductors, has been ...
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Singapore-based commodity major Olam International is keen to make acquisitions of up to SGD$2.72bn ($1.4bn) as it plans to benefit from the dip in prices of agricultural commodities. Olam CEO Sunny Verghese was quoted by Bloomberg as ...
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Companies opt to relocate plants to Southeast Asia to cut labor costs, reports Lyu Chang. The label of "made in China", which was synonymous with the global solar industry, is in danger of fading out as a growing number of firms move ...
Tags: solar industry, silicon cells, solar panel
Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd is planning to increase investments in emerging markets like Venezuela, as the heavy machinery maker seeks ways to sustain growth amid tough market conditions at home. The company said on Thursday that its auto ...
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The French textile and garment association (Evalliance) has entered into an agreement with the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) to promote the Cambodian textile and garment industry. According to the agreement, ...
Tags: Cambodian textile, garment industry, Apparel
Martelli has acquired 100% of the shares in Martelli Gonser, now known as Martelli Tunisia, the company it has been working with in the huge North-African market. The Group, that flies the flag for Italian creativity in textile finishing ...
Tags: Textile Finisher, Martelli, Martelli Tunisia
Descartes Systems Group, a Waterloo, Ontario-based logistics software provider, has acquired Impatex Freight Software Limited, a freight forwarding company based in the United Kingdom, and Compudata, a supply chain integration provider in ...
Tags: Descartes, Impatex Freight Software, Compudata, acquisition
An Iranian deputy minister of petroleum has said that administration of Hassan Rouhani welcomes Japanese and European firms’ investment in Iran’s oil industry. Speaking to Yomiuri Shimbun, Ali Majedi said that the ...
Tags: investment, mineral, oil
Swedish online music streaming service Spotify is to work with Hadoop distributor Hortonworks as it looks to further personalise its services and improve its analytics. An early adopter of the Apache Hadoop data storage and processing ...
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The PRISM revelations and the National Security Agency's programme of obtaining data from web firms could cost the American cloud computing industry $35bn (£23bn) over the next three years, as wary customers switch to providers that ...
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More than half of mid-sized businesses across Europe would refuse to do business with an organisation which has suffered a data breach, despite the fact many see data loss as just another part of everyday business. That is according to ...
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More than half (58%) of European mid-sized firms refuse to do business with a company that had suffered a data breach, despite the fact that 41% believe data loss is just an inevitable part of daily business, a new study has revealed. The ...
Tags: Data Breach, European Firms
Innovation performance in the EU has improved year on year in spite of the continuing economic crisis, but the innovation divide between Member States is widening. This is the result of the European Commission Innovation Union Scoreboard ...
Tags: EU, Gap, More Innovative
The Commission is today able to report about some success in its strategy to fight global trade barriers. The efforts of the European Commission to fight protectionism over the last year bear fruit and could create better trade and ...
Tags: EU Reports, economy
Increasing demand for Asian snacks has led to an expansion of food manufacturing that will create 100 jobs at Euro Foods in the West Midlands. Food manufacturer Euro Foods is to create 100 jobs at its site in the West Midlands Euro ...
Tags: Increasing demand, Asian snacks, food manufacturing, Euro Foods