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Margin of PV Cells Squeezed Due to Price Trend
Jan 8, 2017For the whole January, orders for solar products across the supply chain has mostly been dealt due to the upcoming Lunar New Year, and EnergyTrend found that the spot prices did not, and will not, significantly fluctuate in the recent. ...
Tags: PV Cells, Solar Products
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Price Drop of PV Modules Spreads to Upstream
Sep 25, 2016Despite an upturn in demand, PV module prices have plunged further in September, as suppliers scrambled for orders during trade fairs in India and the U.S. Indian buyers have demanded further cut into quotes, already at low level, driving ...
Tags: PV Modules, PV cells
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Collapsing PV Demand Leads to Sale Decrease
Sep 9, 2016PV market demand plunged rapidly as expected as it entered in the third quarter, driving significant price decline across the PV supply chain. Prices of solar cells and wafer have reached new low for consecutive weeks. Consequently, ...
Tags: PV market, PV industry
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PV Cell Prices Are Falling Faster Than Expected
Mar 15, 2016EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, reports that the global PV market is seeing slowing demand after the Chinese New Year holidays. Peak installation seasons in the U.S. and Japan have passed, and the demand related to China’s ...
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Cost and Efficiency Are Keys to Mono-Si Market
Nov 25, 2015The sluggish growth of the mono-Si market this year is notable given the fact that many cell manufacturers had switched from multi-Si to mono-Si production in the second half of 2014. Statistical research conducted by EnergyTrend for the ...
Tags: Mono-Si Market, mono-Si cell
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Everlight and Epistar Faces Tough Market Situations in 2Q15
Nov 12, 2015Top Taiwanese LED manufacturers Everlight and Epistar revenues for second quarter of 2015 were impacted by trending low LED prices on the market, according to a China Times report. Even though Epistar revenues made a turnaround in second ...
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Prices of LED Light Bulbs Bounced Back Slightly in October
Nov 11, 2015According to the latest report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, the global average price of 40W LED replacement light bulbs rose 2.8% monthly to US$11.1 in October, while the 60W replacement bulbs rose 3.5% to US$15. LEDinside ...
Tags: LED package, LED Light Bulbs
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Cautious Optimism Rules as Good News Returns
Nov 5, 2015An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
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Strong Downstream Demands Make Spot Prices up
Jun 19, 2015The latest photovoltaic (PV) price update by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, shows the downstream sector of the industry has been seeing brisk orders since the start of June. Stock up demands for this month also starts to pick up ...
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Utilization Rates at 8-Inch Fabs Falling
May 8, 2015Capacity utilization rates at 8-inch wafer fabs have fallen at a faster-than-expected pace recently prompting foundry houses to lower their quotes, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. LCD driver IC suppliers have cut ...
Tags: LCD Driver, Analog ICs
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PV Market Continues to Recover Slowly in Q2
May 2, 2015The slow recovery of the global PV market continues into the second quarter. Jason Huang, research manager for EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, said the market on the whole is showing positive signs even though prices along the supply ...
Tags: PV market, Solar Cell
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Change of Anti-Dumping Duty May Boost Capacity
Aug 22, 2014On August 19, the US Department of Commerce announced it had revised the preliminary anti-dumping duty on solar products produced by Motech Industries in Taiwan, causing Motech’s tariff rate to drop from 44.18%, the highest among ...
Tags: PV, Anti-Dumping Duty, Solar Cell
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Turkey-based Subsidiary MMK Metalurji's Finished Steel Output Decreased by 3.5 Percent
Aug 12, 2014Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 3.5 percent year on year to 334,000 mt in the first half of this year. In the ...
Tags: MMK Metalurji's Finished Steel Output, Decreased, Russian
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Outokumpu Has Announced Its Financial Results for The Second Quarter of The Current Year
Aug 12, 2014Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced its financial results for the second quarter of the current year, indicating that stainless steel demand continued to recover and base prices increased moderately in both Europe ...
Tags: Outokumpu, Announce, Financial Results
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Epistar to Have Over 400 MOCVD Reactors, More Than Double of Its Competitor
Jul 10, 2014Following the announcement on June 30 that Epistar is acquiring Formosa Epitaxy (FOREPI), Epistar will have over 400 MOCVD reactors including those from FOREPI's China subsidiaries, more than double the GaN MOCVD of its nearest competitor, ...