Last week, Eastman Kodak Company (EK) announced plans to open the second production line for its Xiamen printing plate manufacturing facility in China and the Asia-Pacific region. The expanded, state-of-the-art facility in China’s southeastern city will enhance Kodak’s manufacturing capacity for offset products and underline the company’s commitment to strengthen its production base for customers in the fast-growing market.   In 2009, Kodak expanded its Center of Operations and Support, comprising customer service and internal operations, in Xiamen. The center offers order processing, business procedures and other services, as well as human resources and financial support. In August 2009, Kodak relocated its Southeast Asia-based Logistics Center to Xiamen to support its fast-growing business in the Asian market. These two strategic moves demonstrate the company’s commitment to its key markets.   Recently, Kodak reported results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009. Earnings came in at $1.36 per ...

Swedish furniture retail giant Ikea has announced that it will close its trade offices in Chengdu, Wuhan, and Xiamen and employees in these three offices will be dismissed. Ikea told local media that this decision is the company's efforts to integrate its purchasing businesses in China. In the future, its trade offices in Shanghai, Qingdao, and [...]

Chinese retailer Ren Ren Le has opened its first store in Xiamen, Fujian and this store is expected to start trial operations at the end of March 2009. Wu Xingyin, the general manager of Ren Ren Le Fujian, told local media that the company has signed a contract with the Xiamen government to open three stores [...]

According to Sun Shaofeng, chairman and president of China Green, the group's first food retail chain store on the Chinese mainland has been opened in Xiamen, Fujian. The Fujian-based group has plans to extend its chain stores to over 90% of major Chinese mainland cities in the next five years. It will first open three direct-managed [...]

Commercial production has begun for the Sno2 solar base plate used as an electrode element in thin-film solar cells. China Technology Development Group Corporation (NASDAQ: CTDC) said their plant in Xiamen, China started producing the conductive element to solar cells on Sept. 1. CTDC’s first SnO2 production line expects to produce about 70,000 to 80,000 plates per year once the facility reaches full capacity.

“SnO2 base plate is a type of TCO substrate, which is the key upstream component for a-Si thin-film solar cell to maximize its efficiency,” said a company news release. “In recent years, the photovoltaic industry production has been expanding so fast with yearly growth rates over the last five years [averaging] more than 40 percent.”

Recent improvements include the adoption of a new heating process, which allows the product to meet international standards of high transmission, good conductivity and high-haze to help trap light into the amorphous silicon

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