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Apple's Alchemy Turns Sapphire Into US Manufacturing Jobs
Nov 5, 2015The factory in Mesa, Arizona, had never been intended to house the manufacture of a gemstone. Ahead of the photovoltaics industry’s 2011-2012 meltdown, First Solar had built it with the aim of producing 280 MW worth of solar panels ...
Tags: Arizona, photovoltaics industry, Alchemy Turns Sapphire
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GT Is Now Pursuing ASF Furnace Opportunities for Sapphire Cover Glass Applications
Dec 25, 2014GT Advanced Technologies has announced that following the bankruptcy court's recent approval of its settlement agreement with Apple, GT is now pursuing ASF furnace opportunities for sapphire cover glass applications across the broader ...
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LLP Files a Class Action Lawsuit
Oct 22, 2014Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP has filed a class action lawsuit ‘Deerhaven Capital LLC vs Gutierrez et al’ (docketed as 14-cv-00463) in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on behalf of a class ...
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Tera Xtal Technology Has Cancelled a Plan to Issue 25 Million New Shares
Oct 21, 2014Sapphire wafer maker Tera Xtal Technology has cancelled a plan to issue 25 million new shares mainly due to large drops in its stock prices. The new shares were originally meant to be subscribed by existing shareholders (90%) and ...
Tags: Sapphire wafer, Tera Xtal
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GTAT Move to Seek Bankruptcy Protection on October 6 Came as a Surprise to The IT Industry
Oct 17, 2014GT Advanced Technologies' (GTAT) move to seek bankruptcy protection on October 6 came as a surprise to the IT industry especially because the maker was a major supplier of Apple for sapphire screens. The related supply chain in general, ...
Tags: GTAT, Sapphire Industry
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Tera Xtal Technology Has Filed with Taiwan's Intellectual Property Court a Charge
Oct 14, 2014Sapphire ingot maker Tera Xtal Technology has filed with Taiwan's Intellectual Property Court a charge against Apple Asia, Apple's subsidiary based in Hong Kong, and Taiwan-based consumer electronics retail chain Senao International and ...
Tags: Tera Xtal, Infringement, Lighting
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GTAT Applied for Bankruptcy Protection
Oct 10, 2014US-based sapphire ingot producer GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has applied for bankruptcy protection possibly because its HEM technology-based ingot growing process has seen much lower than expected yield rates at only about 40%, ...
Tags: GTAT, bankruptcy, sapphire ingot
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GTAT Should Return Payment Tera Xtal Made in 2012
Aug 18, 2014Sapphire ingot maker Tera Xtal Technology has disclosed the American Arbitration Association (AAA) has decided that US-based equipment supplier GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) should return payment Tera Xtal made in 2012 for sapphire ...
Tags: GTAT, Tera Xtal Technology, Lighting
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GTAT Will Be Making Its Next Generation Sapphire Growth Furnace
May 14, 2014GT Advanced Technologies (Nasdaq:GTAT) announced that it will be making its next generation ASF®165 sapphire growth furnace, for the production of high volume and high quality sapphire material, commercially available in Q3'14. The ...
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GT Will Be Making Its Next-Generation ASF165 Sapphire Growth Furnace
May 10, 2014GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Merrimack, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and power electronics markets) says that it will ...
Tags: GT Sapphire furnace, Electrical, Electronics
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The LED Substrate Is One of The Key Factors Impacting The LED Front-End Industry
May 1, 2014According to Yole Développement's new market research report 'LED Front-End Manufacturing Trends' (which covers substrates, epitaxy, lithography, plasma etching & deposition, PVD and testing), the LED substrate is one of the key ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
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GT Has Acquired Exclusive Rights From Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh
Feb 24, 2014GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystal growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired exclusive rights ...
Tags: LED Wafer Production, epiwafers
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Powertec Energy Has Raised an Additional Paid-in Capital of NT$3.6 Billion
Jan 16, 2014Taiwan-based polysilicon maker Powertec Energy has raised an additional paid-in capital of NT$3.6 billion (US$120 million) and obtained syndicated loans of NT$4.8 billion to reach the NT$23 billion needed to establish the first phase of its ...
Tags: Powertec Energy, Polysilicon
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Limits of Sapphire,Compared with Corning's Gorilla Glass
Jan 14, 2014A lot of attention and speculation has been brewing on GT Advanced Technologies' (GTAT) sapphire screens replacing Corning's (GLW) Gorilla Glass in the iPhone 6. Sapphire is one of the hardest materials on earth and is basically scratch ...
Tags: GT Advanced Technologies, sapphire screens, Corning, Gorilla Glass
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Combats Bacteria and Fungi Has Been Unveiled
Jan 7, 2014A new type of touchscreen glass that combats bacteria and fungi has been unveiled US firm Corning said its Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass contains ionic silver, a substance that has been used to fight germs for more than 100 years. The ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Glass