July 1st, 2011 Veeco Instruments Inc (VECO:US), one of the two dominant MOCVD reactor suppliers, is bullish. The company recently estimated the total available market for MOCVD systems from 2011 through 2015 at greater than 5,000 reactors. General lighting market is definitely factored in. MOCVD tool ownership by country (see the chart below) [...]
December 21, 2010 This is an interesting case: we spotted an error in one of our prefered and reliable sources of information – Digitimes. It concerns the demand and capacity in sapphire/LED manufacturing wich are discussed a lot these days. We decided it is worth publishing here. Digitimes wrote: Formosa Epitaxy’s Taiwan facilities are equipped [...]
December 10, 2010 Driven by equipment manufacturers (38.7% of the total), Swiss exports to China surpass imports. Countries with strong equipment manufacturing base, first of all Germany but also Switzerland, thrive on equipment exports to a booming China. Dreams of finding a new Eldorado in China did not materialized for most of Western businessmen. It [...]
Интернет против налогового кодекса November 30, 2010 Technology companies in Ukraine have no tax preferences whatsoever nor do they have government support of any kind. The complexity of the Ukrainian corporate tax law is ranked number 3 in the world. Ukrainian businesses have to spend 270 times (!) more time on administration of taxes than [...]
October 18, 2010 A short video account is published on this website at: http://pryroda.biz/picture-gallery/video-demo-and-research-sapphire-growth-facility-is-in-operation/ …
October 4, 2010 Yvonne Yu, from DIGITIMES, on Monday 4 October 2010 pointed out falling margins for LED chipmakers in September 2010. Amongst the reasons are increasing prices for components and notably prices for sapphire substrates: Prices for sapphire substrates were about US$10-13 in the first quarter of 2010, started to increase in the second [...]
September 16, 2010 The key points: – orders for MOCVD equipment, which is used in LED chip production, from China have reached 1,400-1,600. The Government becomes concerned about overheating. – the government subsidizes 8-10 million yuan (US$1.19-1.49 million) of each MOCVD machine installation P.E.: Veeco, one of the two dominant suppliers, averaged 2 million US$ [...]
September 10, 2010 An article in The Economist magazine praises Siemens for positive changes of the last years. The article mentions and illustrates with figures the scale of bribery that was a part of business practice at Siemens in the past. In this regard it would be interesting to look at the problem from the [...]
July 7, 2009 An excellent entry “…posted by Mechanical Engineer on Mon, Jun 15, 2009″ on the Alignex Mechanical Division Technical Blog We have spent 40 minutes wondering in the labyrinths of the Solidworks web sites, where all paths to support lead to dead-ends of restricted access. Still, we were unable to find that place where [...]