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Monday 5 January 2015
Quanta plastic chassis subsidiary cutting capacity due to weak notebook shipments
Quanta Computer's plastic chassis manufacturing subsidiary has recently started reducing its production capacity in response to declining notebook shipments, according to Quanta Co...
Thursday 4 September 2014
LG Display starts mass production of circular plastic OLED displays
LG Display has announced that it has started mass production of the world's first circular plastic OLED (P-OLED) display. The cutting-edge display will be used for the LG G Watch...
Tuesday 14 January 2014
Kinko to expand plastic lens capacity, says paper
Kinko Optical started supplying plastic lens kits for PlayStation 4 in July 2013 and will extend such applications to cars, handsets and notebooks in 2014, the Chinese-language Economic...
Wednesday 18 December 2013
Samsung unlikely to adopt metal-alloy chassis for Galaxy S5
Rumors have surfaced that Samsung Electronics will adopt a metal-alloy chassis for the Galaxy S5, its new flagship smartphone to be unveiled in late February 2014, with Catcher Technology,...
Monday 9 September 2013
Kinko Optical plastic lens kit shipments growing
Kinko Optical has extended production from glass optical lens kits to plastic ones, which have been adopted for PlayStation 4's sensing kit PS Eye as well as for web cameras from...
Thursday 6 June 2013
Computex 2013: Sony unveils ultrabooks using carbon-fiber reinforced plastic chassis
Sony has announced several new ultrabooks at Computex 2013 including the Vaio Pro series, featuring carbon-fiber reinforced plastic chassis and weighing only 870g for the 11-inch...
Thursday 25 April 2013
Metal chassis suppliers remain confident about future performance
As Apple is reportedly planning to adopt plastic chassis for its next-generation iPhone to save costs, market watchers are concerned that the strategy may lead to a trend which would...
Friday 12 April 2013
Plastic chassis penetration in tablets rising
As global demand for tablets is growing fast, while prices keep falling, vendors are expected to adopt plastic chassis for entry-level tablets to minimize production costs and in...
Wednesday 3 April 2013
Catcher expects growth in orders for carbon fiber-reinforced plastic chassis
Catcher Technology expects orders for carbon fiber-reinforced plastic chassis to increase in 2013 and has set up production lines at its new factory in Tainan, southern Taiwan, according...
Monday 11 March 2013
Acer to adopt recycled materials in products
Acer will cooperate with Wistron to adopt recycled materials such as plastic into their products and the company also plans to cut its carbon emissions by 30% by 2015 and 60% by 20...
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Formosa Plastics to raise stake in Inotera
Formosa Plastic Group (FPG), the parent company of Nanya Technology, plans to take up new shares that Inotera Memories will release in a private placement, according to industry so...
Monday 21 January 2013
Kinko Optical to set up plastic lens production capacity, says paper
Taiwan-based Kinko Optical will extend production from glass lens pieces to plastic ones by investing NT$1.0 billion (US$34.4 million) to establish plastic lens production lines,...
Monday 14 January 2013
Entry-level iPhone reportedly may adopt plastic chassis
Apple's rumored entry-level iPhone reportedly may adopt plastic for its chassis instead of reinforced glass or unibody metal as in the company's standard iPhone models, to save cost,...
Thursday 16 August 2012
Quanta aiming to move all notebook production lines to Chongqing by 2014
Quanta Computer is aiming to move all its notebook production lines except those for Apple's products to Chongqing, China within two years and estimates that its notebook shipments...
Monday 13 August 2012
Catcher, Ju Teng pushing into reinforced plastic chassis business
Global first-tier metal chassis maker Catcher Technology and first-tier plastic chassis maker Ju Teng, seeing the adoption of compound materials becoming the latest trend in the chassis...