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China’s animation industry output value continued to grow and exceeded RMB90 billion in 2013, showing a year-on-year increase of around 21.0%. Despite the overall sustained growth, each link of the industrial chain is developing to varying degrees.

After 2006, the rapid rise of the global PV industry quickly broke the original supply and demand equilibrium of the isostatic graphite market and made the supply become increasingly tight. In this context, isostatic graphite giants in America, Japan, Europe or other countries and regions started investing heavily to expand their production capacity, easing the shortage of market supply. In 2013, with the increased support and investment in PV industry in China, the global isostatic graphite supply and supply gap widened to 1,500 tons.

As the core material of the optical fiber and cable industrial chain upstream, optical fiber preform contributes about 70% of the whole industrial chain profits.

In recent years, China has seen rapid development in machine tool, textile, printing, packaging, electronics, and other industries, which has boosted the demand for motion controllers. In 2006-2012, the demand for motion controllers in China presented steady growth, from 253,600 sets in 2006 to 754,500 sets in 2012. In 2013, the market demand for motion controllers in China still showed a relatively stable growth, at roughly 19%, to about 900,000 sets.

Amid the slow growth of the global economy, although China's automobile output and ownership maintain rapid growth, the development of construction machinery manufacturing industry, transportation industry, construction industry and other industries slows down, which greatly depresses the boom of Chinese lubricant market. In 2013, China’s lubricant output and sales volume fell sharply, wherein the output plunged by 30.2% year on year to 5,896,900 tons.

Transfer of imaging techniques from laboratory to clinics, resulted into development of efficient diagnostic techniques. Optical imaging is an emerging technology that provides the ability to analyze and manipulate tissues at molecular and cellular levels thereby making it more predictive, preemptive and personalized. Optical imaging uses non ionizing radiation hence, reduces the risk of radiation exposure. Hence, such imaging technology is used in wide range of applications where patients are unable to tolerate loud noises. Optical imaging requires devices such as optodes for coupling light between surface (such as scalp, skin) and optoelectronic component (such as photodetector and light source).

Plywood is a wood panel prepared from thin sheets of wood veneer. Plywood is one of the most widely used wood products. It is inexpensive, flexible, re-usable and workable. Plywood is used as a substitute for plain wood due to its resistance to cracking, splitting, shrinkage and twisting. Plywood generally offers higher degree of strength than plain wood. On the basis of applications plywood is classified as softwood plywood, hardwood plywood, tropical plywood and decorative plywood among others.

Single use technologies involve single-use or disposable products. Such products are usually made of plastics or its derivatives such as polyamides, polycarbonates, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride and various others. These products are becoming popular in the biopharmaceutical applications as they reduce the overall chances of contaminations and drastically reduce manufacturing and maintenance cost. They also provide benefits of being pre-assembled, sterile, and reduce operation time. Various disposable products available for biopharmaceutical use are laboratory instruments like flasks, petri plates, cell culture apparatus, filling and tubing systems, pumps, filters, bioreactors and others.

Over the past two decades, single-use bioreactors or disposable bioreactors have been in use in pharmaceutical industry that consists of a disposable bag instead of typical culture vessel made up of stainless steel or glass. On the other hand the disposable bag is usually made of three layers of plastic to offer mechanical stability and act as a gas barrier. The single-use bioreactor has several advantages over conventional bioreactors. Pharmaceutical companies usually produce different drugs using the same facility without compromising the quality and operate in various consecutive batches. In such situations, the main challenge is to ensure there are no remains over from earlier batches.

Geothermal exploration takes place in various phases such as Regional reconnaissance, prospect evaluation, project appraisal and exploratory drilling. Numerous drilling techniques are used in geothermal exploration depending on economic considerations, region’s geology and project maturity. Geothermal exploration are further classified based on the techniques such as data and modeling techniques, downhole techniques, drilling techniques, field techniques, geochemical techniques, geophysical techniques, lab analysis technique and remote sensing techniques. Data and modeling technique includes data acquisition, analytical modeling, numerical modeling and portfolio risk modeling.