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Singapore-based Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Specialist Rokko Marks 30 Years of R&D Breakthroughs, Focus on Quality & Reliable Technical Support

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SINGAPORE, Dec 13, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Rokko Holdings Ltd ("Rokko") has marked its 30th anniversary as a proven specialist in the global semiconductor industry, having overcome successive challenges and business cycles through its commitment to innovation and R&D, with a focus on quality and strong technical support at the core of its corporate culture.Rokko's Founder and Managing Director Mr Gary LimWith over 89 patents granted related to its semiconductor equipment and advanced material divisions, Rokko has remained nimble while forging industry leadership in providing advanced materials support as well as high-precision equipment for the back end (assembly, testing and packaging services) of the industry.Headquartered in Singapore, it has benefited from the country's predictable industrial policy and robust legal framework that protects Intellectual Property. Fortuitously, the Singapore domicile has also allowed Rokko to navigate recent challenges of the U.S.-China 'tech war' that have impacted the semiconductor industry in particular.Rokko has a substantial customer base in China and Taiwan which accounts for over half of its annual revenue for the pas...

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Mr. Chow Bok Hin Felix was appointed as the new director of ASTRI

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HONG KONG, Oct 24, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Niche-Tech Semiconductor Materials Limited ("Niche-Tech Semiconductor" or the "Company", with its subsidiaries collectively referred as the "Group"; HKEx Stock Code: 8490.HK), a leading semiconductor packaging materials manufacturer, is pleased to announce that Mr. Chow Bok Hin Felix, Executive Chairman and Executive Director of the Company, was appointed as the new director of The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute ("ASTRI") for the period from 21 October 2022 to 20 October 2024.ASTRI is an institute founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong's competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI's core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Trust and AI Technologies; Communications Technologies; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies and Integrated Circuits and Systems. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, Re-Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse. As of 2021/22, AST...

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PM Packaging Announces 2021 Interim Results

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HONG KONG, Aug 26, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Pacific Millennium Packaging Group Corporation ("PM Packaging" or the "Group"; Stock Code: 1820), a leading corrugated packaging supplier in the People Republic of China (the "PRC"), announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2021 ("Period").During the Period, the corrugated packaging industry was affected by the ongoing rise in raw material prices. Consequently, the Group's net profit contracted despite a year-on-year increase in revenue of approximately 26.5% to RMB1,116.7 million during the Period (Corresponding Period of 2020: approximately RMB882.8 million). Gross profit rose by approximately 5.7% year-on-year to RMB178.1 million and consolidated gross profit margin was approximately 15.9%. The Board has declared an interim dividend of HK$0.08 per share (Corresponding Period of 2020: nil).Construction of New Production PlantIn 2020, the Group established a new production plant in Shandong province (the "Shandong Plant") with an annual production capacity of approximately 78 million square meters of corrugated sheet boards and corrugated packaging products. Its utilisation rate reached ap...

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E-shopping addiction lays waste to green packaging drive in China

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SHANGHAI • If you worry about all the waste generated by the annual rush of holiday shopping and gift giving, it is nothing compared with the mountains of discarded packaging that comes from a single event in China. On Nov 11 each year, the world's biggest consumer market goes into overdrive as e-commerce giants like Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com lure shoppers with huge bargains during the Singles' Day sale. Alibaba reported almost 500 billion yuan (S$102 billion) in sales this year, nearly four times the United States' Black Friday and Cyber Monday spending combined. On its Tmall platform, transactions reached a peak when 583,000 orders were made in a single second. All those purchases meant 675 million packages had to be delivered, a 26 per cent increase from last year. Online shopping in China generated 9.4 million tonnes of packaging in 2018, according to Greenpeace, which projects that the amount could rise to 41 million tonnes by 2025, about the same as all the waste produced by Japan in a year. Greenpeace estimates that Singles' Day generated 52,400 tonnes of carbon dioxide from manufacturing, packaging and shipping in 2017. The national railway has to employ hundreds of ...