Solar Photovoltaic Cell Market Report: 2008 Edition – Aarkstore Enterprise

High oil and gas prices and improving regulatory support for solar power are driving solar photovoltaic (PV) cell market. Other drivers include increasing popularity of “”green”" energy, rising electricity costs and emergence of more efficient solar PV technologies.

Currently, the major challenge for the solar PV market is adequate procurement of solar grade silicon. The planned capacity increase in polysilicon production in the coming years is expected to drive solar PV cells output capacity higher. Therefore, the outlook of solar PV market in the next few years largely depends on availability and pricing of polysilicon.

Germany, Spain, Japan and the US dominate the worldwide solar PV market with more than 85% of cumulative installed PV capacity. A key reason for high growth in these countries is the active role adopted by their governments in providing subsidies to the solar industry. However, growth in Japan has been hindered due to scaling down of subsidies program.

Crystalline Silicon technology has uptill now dominated the solar PV market, with about ninety percent market share. Thin-film technology is a less efficient, lower cost, alternative to crystalline silicon. Thin-films are usually used for large PV plants, in large commercial or industrial buildings.

There are fewer companies involved as we move up in the solar PV value chain. Germany’s Q-Cells was the world’s largest producer of solar cells in 2007, followed by Japan’s Sharp Corporation, Chinese manufacturer Suntech Power and Japan’s Kyocera Corporation. The top ten companies have a market share of more than fifty percent of the worldwide solar PV cell market.

The report analyzes the global solar photovoltaic cell market, with focus on production, capacity and expansion plans. It also discusses the regional markets, pricing trend, emergence of thin film technology and market forecast. Apart from a discussion of the competitive landscape, the report profiles the major solar cell producers with a discussion of their key business strategies.

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US Truckload Industry: An Analysis – Aarkstore Enterprise

Since the third quarter of 2006, number of factors have worked against the growth of the truckload industry. Factors that stymied the growth of the truckload industry were falling automobile sales, meltdown in the housing sector, sluggish growth in retail sales and overall slowdown in the US economy.

As a result of these factors, the trucking industry in the United States has suffered from weak volumes and a difficult pricing environment. The industry is currently challenged with lower demand and higher equipment availability as a result of many truckload companies pre-buying tractors before the more restrictive engine regulations took effect in 2007. Still the truckload industry is highly competitive based primarily upon freight rates, service, and equipment availability.

Due to the increasing challenges posed by significantly slower U.S. economic growth, the truckload industry is not expected to show any relevant growth in the year 2008 and 2009. However, after this period, the industry is likely to see sustained growth with a number of fiscal and monetary stimuli enacted like the US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The truckload industry is also facing supply-demand imbalance of capacity. But with the exit of small and underperforming carriers, declining orders for new tractors and trailers and downsizing of fleet by leading truckload companies is expected to bring a favorable balance of supply and demand in the future.

Further, with retail gasoline prices seeing around 40% fall in the last quarter of the calendar year 2008 from the early July 2008 highs, consumers have now extra discretionary dollars to spend and carriers will have meaningful operating ratio and higher profitability.

The report titled “US Truckload Industry: An Analysis” examines the current status of the truckload industry. It analyzes the growth of the truckload industry in the United States over the years and the factors that are recently obstructing its growth. Further, major trends in the industry and the challenges faced by the truckload carriers have been assessed. The report also presents the competitive landscape, performance of the leading companies and strategies adopted by them in this difficult economic environment.

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Home Automation Solutions and Business Issues 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

Home automation represents technology and solutions utilized to automate, manage, and control devices located within residential dwellings and small businesses by means of various remote control and automation methods. Remote control has evolved a long way since the devices first used to remotely control various consumer electronics and appliances (television, air conditions, and computers) to support more integrated and comprehensive control. The goal of home automation solutions is to provide comfort, security, and efficiency for the residents and/or workers within a building. The main goal of automation is to enable residents and workers to perform daily tasks in a simpler, more efficient and effective manner.

Home Automation: Solutions and Business Issues 2009 provides updated information about home automation technologies, standards, organizations, designers and installers. The report also provides an updated vision for the home automation market, including an overview of current business models, global SWOT Analysis for the industry including real-world examples. The report also includes a market segmentation study that contains factors that shape the home automation industry. Additional analysis covers consumer attitudes and concerns towards home automation. The report also gives an overview of home automation technologies growth during the last years and expectations for the upcoming years. The report is also an excellent reference for companies working on designing and installing home automation systems.

Companies in Report:

Designers

Advanced Quonset Technology Inc.
AMX
Centralite
Charmed Quark Systems Ltd.
Cinemar Solutions, Inc.
Control4
Cortexa™ Systems
Crestron Electronics, Inc.
Custom Solutions, Inc.
Eaton Corporation
eControl
Elan Home Systems
ELK Products, Inc.
Embedded Automation
Exceptional Innovation
GE Security, Inc.
Hawking Technology, Inc.
Home Automated Living
Home Automation Inc.
HomeLogic, LLC
HomeRemote Home Automation
HomeSeer Technologies
HomeVision
Honeywell Security & Communications
iControl Networks, Inc.
Intermatic, Inc.
Jasco Products Company
JCL Automation
JDS Technologies
Lagotek Corporation
Leviton
LiteTouch, Inc.
Lutron Electronics Company
Promixis
Promwad
Remote Technologies Inc.
Savant Systems LLC
Schlage
Schneider Electric
SmartLabs Inc.
Stardraw
Universal Electronics Inc.
Visiomatic
Wayne-Dalton Corp.
Xantech Corporation
Zenpanion LLC

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Report of Chinese Automobile Industry under International Financial Crisis, 2009

The International financial crisis in 2008 has seriously affected the global automobile industry. Four largest automobile companies lost their previous prosperity and looked for breakout to save them. There is no exception for Chinese automobile industry, which is still in its rising period.

In 2008, the yields of Chinese automobile were 9.3451 million, increased by 5.2% of last year. But the growth speed decrease by 16.8% of last year. The total automobile sales volumes reached to 9.38 million, rising by 6.7% compared with 2007, but the growth speed declined by 15% compared with 2007. There was a sharp reduction in the profits of Chinese automobile manufacturers.

In 2008, FAW Volks, Shanghai Volks and Shanghai GE stood the top three sales volumes respectively in Chinese automobile market. However, the independent brand, such as Chery, dropped in market shares, totally accounting for only about 25.92% in the whole automobile sales volumes.

In order to promote the development of Chinese automobile manufacture under international financial crisis, Chinese government approved the Revitalization Plans of Automobile Industry in January of 2009. The major contents concluded: reducing the purchase tax of passenger automobiles with low emissions; offering purchase subsidy policy to specific targets so as to promote automobile consumption; advancing Mergers and acquisitions among automobile industry; supporting Chinese automobile manufacturers to develop independent innovation and technical reform; driving the development of electric powered automobiles and its crucial accessories; supporting Chinese automobile manufacturers to develop independent brands; speeding up the export base construction of automobile and accessories.

Compared with the international automobile patterns, China is getting to be the manufacture center and cost center. Under the existing circumstances, Chinese automobile manufacture has an advantage of low cost compared with the developed countries. However, various costs are rising in Chinese automobile industry. As far as accessories are concerned, China has no advantage in the high quality accessories. The medium quality accessories have been developed in recent years. China has to compete with India and Vietnam in the low quality manufacture, such as batteries and tires etc.

From the part of Chinese automobile industry, international financial crisis is not only challenges but also opportunities. Chinese automobile market has a huge development potential in the fields of Mergers and acquisitions, accessories and new energy automobiles.

The analysts of our company cooperated with some experts in Chinese automobile industry to write this report, with the purpose of helping the domestic and international persons to tide over, discover opportunities in Chinese market, and cope with the challenge from international financial crisis.

Readers can obtain more following information in this report:
- Productions and Sales of Chinese Automobile Industry
- Imports and Exports of Chinese Automobile Industry

- Favorable Elements for the Development of Chinese Automobile Market
- Unfavorable Elements for the Development of Chinese Automobile Market
- Prediction on the Sales Volumes of Chinese Automobile, 2009-2012
- Influences of International Financial Crisis on the Local Automobile Manufacturers in China
- Influences of International Financial Crisis on the Foreign Funded Automobile Manufacturers in Chinese Market
- Import and Export Trends of
- Sales Targets of Major International Automobile Enterprises in China, 2009
- Short, Medium and Long Term Influences of Revitalization Plans of Automobile Industry on Chinese Automobile Industry
- Subsistent Opportunities of Chinese Automobile Industry under International Financial Crisis

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Connector Imperatives to Support Next Generation Electronic Equipment

This new report identifies emerging electrical, mechanical and economic attributes of connectors anticipated by the electronic system design community as well as provide examples of new products connector suppliers have released or are developing in order to address these emerging needs. The report is focused on three industry segments that are experiencing the most rapid and dramatic changes, and represent some of the most fertile markets for innovation in connector technology (Computers, Telecom and Automotive). Statistics are presented showing historical and forecast connector shipments for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2011.The first iteration of this report was published in March of 2005, and identified a series of anticipated industry interconnect needs to support the next generation of electronic equipment within the computer, telecom and automotive market segments.  In many cases, new connectors were either in development or recently introduced to address these needs.   Now, nearly three years later, many of the same requirements remain the primary focus of systems designers.  Targets in each metric have ratcheted up to support increased system performance. Continuing challenges in system bandwidth, signal density, and power management remain key concerns as all three spiral upwards, while pressures to reduce product cost and design cycle time make the selection of the most effective connector system a critical step early in design process.  The results of extensive interviews with connector manufacturers and users in preparation for this report revealed that many of these key metrics have remained the same.  Only the performance targets in terms of signal integrity, contacts per PCB inch, and amps per cubic inch continue to rise.  Many of the recently introduced connectors outlined in this report reflect the recognition of these trends.

The key objectives of this new report are to identify specific attributes of electronic connectors as reported by the connector using community, and to compare them with new development work as well as recently released connectors from the connector manufacturing industry. Product extensions of existing features as well as new capabilities are reviewed.   

 

Although the electronic equipment market is perceived as a dynamic rapidly evolving segment, the desire to remain within an established comfort zone and minimize risk continues to have a powerful influence on the adoption rate of new component technology.  Both connector manufacturers, as well as users, are trying to establish a fine balance between pushing the envelope to achieve their next generation equipment performance goals and cost constraints created by a highly competitive market.  Several comments received during the research phase suggest that system design is now often being done by low margin ODMs who are focused on reducing risk, and that many OEMs no longer have the internal resources to even evaluate new technology.   A host of new connectors have been introduced over the past three years that reflect this carefully measured pace of advancement. 

Some old things are new again.  The need to understand the basics of contact physics continues to be an issue as senior designers who have personally experienced the negative effects of such interconnect phenomenon as fretting corrosion, the formation of inter-metallic layers between dissimilar contact materials, and tin whiskers continue to retire or are laid off in downsizings.  Although system problems due to the failure of a connector continue to be a relatively rare occurrence, product failures attributed to the interconnect are being revisited among the crop of new engineers who have little training or experience in connection technology.  The replacement of gold with alternative non-noble plating, elimination of the nickel underplating, and the selection of an inappropriate contact design for the application were reported and illustrate the potential for failure.

Significant concern was expressed about a potential decline in system reliability as product manufacturing and more recently product design migrates to offshore locations. The impact of improper design and selection of inappropriate materials driven more by cost reduction, introduces an entirely new level of concern in insuring product reliability.  More than one interviewee indicated that their company has either re-evaluated their design and manufacturing verification process, or actually brought their product manufacturing back to the U.S.

New products are reaching the market at an accelerating rate.  Hand held consumer products that offer communications, entertainment and Internet access illustrate the faster, smaller, and cheaper trend.  Advanced applications in such diverse markets as industrial control, medical imaging, and security, which utilize Internet access, continue to drive the need to upgrade the infrastructure of the network.  The electronic content of automobiles is exploding, as drivers demand their car become an extension of the communication, computing and entertainment features available in their home.  Additional navigational, diagnostic and safety equipment together with electronic management of every major component within the car further extend electronic content.

This relentless pace of new product introduction guarantees that the pressure to develop advanced interconnection systems will continue.  Existing connector families will be fine tuned to address higher speed circuits, while entirely new interconnects will be introduced that address greater packaging flexibility and current density.

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World Automotive Connector Market By Aarkstore Enterprise

This new report provides a comprehensive analysis of the automotive connector market, identifying the size of the market by vehicle platform, product type, contact size, and region of the world for light vehicles. Market data is displayed for the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012. Light Vehicles covered in this report are defined as Cars and Light Trucks. Light Trucks include Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV’s) and Pickup Trucks with a load rating of one ton or less.

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Lab Automation Markets Worldwide (Next-Generation Systems, Key Companies, Forecasts and Trends)

The benefits of automation in the clinical laboratory are well documented. They involve replacing manual, potentially dangerous, error-prone steps with automated processes requiring minimal operator intervention. This approach can increase productivity, decrease turnaround time, improve staff safety, minimize errors, improve the handling of specimens, and allow labs to reallocate personnel to more important and productive tasks.

For drug discovery, automation also offers benefits. bringing a new drug to market has been both a very time-intensive, laborious and expensive undertaking.

This report analyzes the current and potential world markets for medical laboratory automation systems and equipment – both for clinical diagnostics and drug discovery research laboratories.

These are some of the recent developments that are assessed in the report and considered in market projections:

• Next-Generation vs. Traditional Systems
• Labcyte and Allegro Combine Operations
• Agilent Acquistion of Velocity
• New Closed-Loop Smart Gripper
• Tecan-VWR Alliance
• New Sample Processing Platforms
• High Throughput Flexibility
• Robotics Research Lab Established
• Hamilton Purchase of TekCel
• Low Temperature Sample Storage
• Automated Microplate Processing

Current Market and Forecasts to 2012 for the following segments are included:

• Sample Transport Systems
• Specimen Handling Systems
• Storage and Retrieval Systems
• Work stations
• Plate Readers
• Robotics
• Dissolution Testing
• Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)

Revenues for clinical labs and drug discovery labs are broken out.

As a report with international focus, markets for North America, Europe and Asia are provided.

This report also reviews the nature and direction of research and trends, and gives insight into some issues facing the industry. The report profiles several companies involved in developing and marketing these systems. Market forecasts are based on an examination of current market conditions and on investigations into the development of new products by key companies.

The market data provide multiple year forecasts for different product segments covered in the report.

The information presented in this report is the result of data gathered from company product literature and other corporate brochures and documents, as well as information found in the scientific and trade press. In addition, interviews were conducted with company executives and researchers. Companies profiled in this report include:

• Abbott Diagnostics
• Agilent Technologies Inc.
• Ai Scientific
• Aurora Biotechnologies
• Beckman Coulter Inc.
• BioTrove Inc.
• Caliper Life Sciences
• Dynacon Inc.
• Eppendorf AG
• Hamilton Storage Technologies Inc.
• InnovaSystems Inc.
• Labotix Automation Inc.
• LabVantage Solutions Inc.
• Molecular Devices
• Motoman Inc.
• Olympus Corp.
• PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences Inc.
• F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
• RTS Group
• Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.
• Sotax
• SSi Robotics
• PaR Systems Inc.
• The Automation Partnership
• Tecan Group Ltd.
• ThermoFischer Scientific Inc.
• Xiril AG

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The global market for automotive superchargers and turbochargers: 2007 edition

In the two years since the previous edition of this report, the use of pressure charging techniques has continued to increase and the number of applications has grown. Pressure charging – increasing the pressure of the air flow entering the combustion chamber – is a technology for improving engine output, both power and torque.

The world-wide market for automotive turbochargers continues to increase – a trend that reflects the ability of turbochargers to improve both thermal efficiency and engine specific output, providing engineers with a choice between improved performance or improved economy, the latter achieved not only by virtue of better thermal efficiency but also of engine downsizing, leading to vehicle weight reduction.

It will remain open to engineers and product planners to decide which aspect they wish to exploit, but in either case another effect will be a reduction in noxious exhaust emissions. 

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Global Engine Trends – Available with Aarkstore Enterprise

This first edition report, written by leading industry commentator Jeff Daniels, reviews the key market drivers for both petrol and diesel engines. It provides an authoritative overview of both the technology issues (both present and future), and regulatory (emissions) concerns involved with this sector.

Chapter one: Fuels, emissions and consumer trends
The design of any engine is heavily influenced by the type of fuel on which it is intended to run. Today there is a clear distinction between the spark ignition engines, designed to run on petrol, and compression ignition engines, operating on diesel fuel. This chapter looks at current technology drivers, and innovations such as the HCCI engine.

The chapter discusses global legislation – both current and planned – as well as standards on emissions regulation. This section of the research also highlights consumer trends in engine buying, explaining how the three main developed-market areas have evolved remarkably different consumer preferences.

Chapter two: Current and future SI technologies
This chapter assesses product trends and processes associated with the petrol SI engine. The report provides authoritative commentary on engine construction, engine management and emission control as well as exhaust aftertreatment.

Chapter three: Diesel (CI)
This chapter reviews the compression-ignition (diesel) engine, and analyses the key differences between its petrol engine counterpart. The advantages of the turbodiesel are explained, and the alternatives to the turbocharger are also reviewed. Engine management and emission control, as well as exhaust aftertreatment are also covered.

Chapter four: Hybrid IC powertrain technology
This chapter reviews current hybrid technologies, and looks at whether existing claims made for their efficiency and fuel economy are valid. It also looks at diesel-electric hybrids, and assesses the likelihood of such engines achieving volume production.

Chapter five: Beyond the internal combustion engine
Will the potential problems associated with the fuel cell hybrid prevent widespread adoption of this technology?

Postscript: In the year 2025…
This provides an opinion on why a highly developed internal combustion engine will continue to be the most widely used power unit for light-duty vehicles, at least out to 2025…

The report provides answers to such vital questions as:

• How viable is the HCCI principle, and will it prove more commercially successful than the fuel cell vehicle?
• What are the main challenges to vehicle engine designers, in terms of emission regulation compliance?
• How do distinctly different consumer preferences in the three main regions complicate both engine design and product planning?
• Will the development of diesel hybrids finally ignite European interest in the hybrid concept?
• Will the fuel cell establish itself as the true power unit of the future, or will it lose its way?

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