Negotiations for the January Asian Contract Price for paraxylene remained slow Friday, the final negotiation day, with neither buyers nor sellers revising their prices to narrow a wide gap, sources close to the talks said. There are four ...
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Polylactic Acid (PLA) is thermoplastic polyester derived from renewable feedstock such as corn starch, sugarcane, wheat, tapioca roots. PLA has wide application such as in Packaging, Textile, Agriculture, Transportation, Bio-Medical and ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been using limited area epitaxy (LAE) to improve the performance of lasers diodes (LDs) grown on free-standing semipolar (20-21) gallium nitride (GaN) substrates [Matthew T. Hardy et al, J. ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed semipolar (20-2-1) nitride semiconductor laser diodes (LDs) without using aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) as the cladding material for optical confinement [A. Pourhashemi et al, ...
Verbatim announces the launch of its ground-breaking Natural Vision VxRGB™ technology, available as realistic candle (Classic B) and MR16 retrofit LED lamps. The products are being launched at Lux Live – one of Europe's key ...
Tags: natural light, LED, LED candle lamp
The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes narrowed $19/mt Monday from Friday's level, to $173/mt, a one year-low, as MX was strengthening amid a bearish PX market, Platts data showed. Isomer-MX on an FOB ...
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In either a cautious or a more aggressive scenario, LED applications will be the key drivers for the bulk gallium nitride (GaN) market, reckons market research firm Yole Développement in its report 'Free-Standing & Bulk GaN ...
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University of California Santa Barbara has been exploring the use of laser diodes (LDs) in combination with phosphors as a means to produce white light [Kristin A. Denault et al, AIP Advances, vol3, p072107, 2013]. Commercial 'white' ...
Tags: Near-UV LD, Blue LD, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation is planning to soon restart its Kashima, Japan-based No. 2 naphtha cracker following maintenance turnaround. “The cracker is planned to be restarted on October 17, 2013,” a company official ...
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Paraxylene market participants expect another tough round of negotiations for the Asian Contract Price for October amid tight PX supplies and a bearish downstream purified terephthalic acid market, sources close to the negotiations said ...
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The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes shrank $9/mt day on day to a one-year low of $175/mt on a CFR basis Wednesday as PX prices turned top heavy while MX remained bullish, Platts data showed. Asian ...
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The CFR Taiwan/China paraxylene price benchmark fell $8.50/mt from Friday to be pegged at $1,511.50/mt early Monday, after negotiators reached no settlement for September Asian Contract Prices, market sources said. Market sources said ...
International semiconductor industry show SEMICON Taiwan will open on September 4th 2013. With LED lighting application development more mature than ever before, intelligent lighting, high energy efficient lighting and household lighting ...
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Transparency Market Research (TMR) has released a report on acrylic acid. Acrylic acid is a colorless organic compound derived by the oxidation of propylene. It is the simplest carboxylic acid that exists in a polymerized form and has a ...
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The Asian naphtha industry gathered Thursday for the start of the 22nd CFR Far East Open Specification Naphtha Meeting to debate among other things a recommendation that seeks to widen the scope of naphtha cargo origins for inclusion in an ...
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