The growth potential in North America has always fascinated PV makers, and US’s affirmative preliminary determination on the anti-dumping (AD) duty of this time would be the key to Chinese and Taiwanese PV makers’ future in North America. How these manufacturers obtain favorable positions afterwards remains to be seen.
Despite Apple’s plans of launching the new generation of iPhone in late 2014, optical demands in handheld devices failed to generate price upticks in the sapphire substrate industry, according to LEDinside.