Price support remains in China in December, According to EnergyTrend’s observation. Multi-Si wafers and cells from the overseas saw significant decline in prices after mid-December. Prices are expected to keep declining before the ...
Tags: multi-Si wafers, polysilicon
The value of the infrared (IR) LED market worldwide continues to grow due to rising demand in various applications markets, according to the 2016~2021 Global LED Industry Demand and Supply Database Report by LEDinside, a division of ...
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Cell makers couldn't tolerate current wafer prices, leading to lower multi-Si wafer prices. Although multi-Si wafer prices remained at US$ 0.70/pc in Taiwan, some makers have started to lower utilization rate because the price is lower than ...
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Sonoco Consumer Products Europe is planning to close two of its tobacco production plants in Germany, resulting in the removal of 100 employees. The Bunde plant in Northwest Germany will be closed by May 2016 and Hockenheim 3 plant in ...
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Seaborne iron ore prices reached a new historic low Tuesday as the Platts 62% Fe Iron Ore Index, or IODEX, lost $0.75/dmt on the day to reach $44/dmt CFR North China. It is the lowest point the IODEX has been since Platts' began spot ...
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Air freight volumes were up slightly in September according to the IATA, with freight tonne kilometres (FTK) 1.0% higher compared to a year ago. This was a small improvement on August, when volumes were broadly stable year to year, however, ...
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Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today reported consolidated financial results for its third quarter, ending 27 September 2015. Sonoco president and CEO Jack Sanders said: "We are encouraged by the ...
The IATA reports that air freight volumes were broadly unchanged in August compared to a year ago, with freight tonne kilometres 0.2% higher. The August data shows a pause in earlier declines in air freight volumes, consistent with ...
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For full-year fiscal 2015 (ended 28 June), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $1.63bn, down just 1% on fiscal 2014's record $1.65bn. Specifically, revenue for Lighting Products (mainly LED lighting systems and bulbs) grew ...
Tags: LED Product, LED chips
Affected by the factors such as the slowdown in macro-economic growth, the decelerated growth of fixed-assets investment, and rapid capacity expansion of downstream sectors in the early stage, China’s machine tool industry has showed ...
Tags: Machine Tool, Manufacturing
Darling Ingredients, a global developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a wide range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, ...
The latest USDA October report forecasts the US cotton crop for 2014 at nearly 16.3 million bales, down slightly from its last month’s forecast, but is 3.3 million bales or 26 percent above the 2013 production. According to the ...
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In September this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 43.6 percent, down by 4.8 percentage points as compared to August, still below the 50 percent threshold and falling to the lowest level of the ...
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In August this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 48.4 percent, down by 0.2 percentage points as compared to July, still below the 50 percent threshold, as announced by the China Steel Logistics ...
Tags: Steel Sector, Mineral
Belgium-based Picanol Group, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in China, saw its revenue plunge 28% year-on-year in the first six months of 2014, in what it called a significant slowdown period. Picanol reported sales of Euro ...
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