Atmospheric and Specialty gases company, Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (APD) recently opened its new specialty amines plant in Nanjing, China. The facility complements its existing local capabilities to support customers in the growing polyurethane additives and epoxy markets. The new specialty amines plant is designed to manufacture many of the amine chemistries marketed by the business globally. Air Products already operates two large air separation plants. Air Products focuses on China for growth as the country seems to be having a strong and potential market as well as industries, such as construction, coatings and automobile production.   The new plant has significantly strengthened the supply chain capabilities of Air Products' Performance Materials business in China and throughout Asia. Other strategic capabilities that the company has built for its Performance Materials business include a technology center in Shanghai's Zhangjiang Industrial Park, a triethylenediamine manufacturing facility for polyurethane additives

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Supertex Inc. (SUPX) recently reported revenues of $15.9 million in its fiscal second quarter, down 32% year over year but up 17% sequentially.  The sequential increase in revenues was driven by growth in LED driver products for lighting and backlighting, medical electronics products, and electroluminescent (EL) driver products. Orders for LED and EL driver products surged after Labor Day. The company had to rush these orders through its wafer fab and expedite them through backend assembly and test in order to meet customer demand schedules. Demand for medical ultrasound products is also beginning to rebound, as sales grew 17% sequentially.

Management added that its major customer has increased its LED TV sales estimates for 2009 and 2010 while other customers are also ramping up. Sales of LED driver products for general lighting applications have also increased. In anticipation of new cell phone launches, shipments of EL inverter products ramped

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Less than two hours ago, e.Digital Corp. announced that a major electronics manufacturer purchased the first license for its Flash-R(TM) patent portfolio. As terms of the agreement, the company will be receiving a one-time licensing fee and cross-license rights to certain patents encompassing multimedia-related products.

The Flash-R patent portfolio encompasses particular aspects of flash memory use. E.Digital revealed the very first portable recorder with removable flash memory in 1993 and believes its patent portfolio is essential to numerous electronics products that use flash memory. The company filed its first Flash-R portfolio patent infringement litigation against eight defendants in September 2007 and March 2008.

“We are very pleased to have entered into what we believe will be the first of many Flash-R patent portfolio licensing agreements,” stated Robert Putnam, senior vice president of e.Digital Corporation.

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Starting out in 1965 in the car radio business, Audiovox Corp. (VOXX) is a recognized leader in the marketing of automotive entertainment, vehicle security and remote start systems, consumer electronics products, and consumer electronics accessories. With corporate headquarters in Hauppauge, New York, Audiovox trades on the NASDAQ as part of the Electronics Wholesale industry. Their current market capitalization is $246.37M. The company went public in 1987.

The company is number one in mobile video, and they are in the top ten of almost every other category that they sell in today. They are able to benefit from growing market opportunities because of their extensive distribution network. They also have well-established industry relationships, which give them a head start over less-established companies when it comes to taking advantage of niche markets. Audiovox was a trailblazer in the cellular phone industry. They sold their first vehicle-installed cellular telephones in 1984, although they divested

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China's quarterly trade surplus shrank for the first time in more than three years in the first quarter of 2008, offering additional evidence that cooling exports are starting to slow economic growth. The trade surplus narrowed 10.2 percent to about $41.6 billion in the three months to March 31 when compared with the same period a year earlier. The trade surplus for March alone doubled to about $13.6 billion from a year earlier. Last year's surplus of $6.8 billion was depressed by changes to export taxes and China's Lunar New Year. China's exports expanded 21.4 percent to $306 billion in the first quarter, slowing from an increase of 27.8 percent a year earlier. Imports climbed 28.6 percent to about $264 billion. China's exports of machinery and electronics products rose 23.1 percent to $181.4 billion in the first quarter from a year earlier, accounting for 59.3 ...

The title says it all. Global economy is on the rise with never-before-seen demand for natural resources and their applications.