http://ewweb.com/news/ en-us http://ewweb.com/news/electric_copper_sluggish_stable Copper prices over the past month continued to vary within a fairly stable range between $3.80 and $3.90 per pound on the Comex market (with a brief visit below $3.75 in early March). Cash prices settled at $3.85 per pound on Friday, Mar. 30. This is within the range where it's been pretty much since it made a jump of about 12 percent after the first of the year ranging between $3.75 and $3.90 and news Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://ewweb.com/news/electric_tariffs_chinese_solar The U.S. Department of Commerce moved to impose import duties of less than 5% on solar panels imported to the United States from China. The move was generally praised by both sides in the dispute over claims of by Chinese solar panel manufacturers. The Commerce Department said it intends to impose duties ranging from 2.9% to 4.73% on all imports from Chinese solar panel makers based on its investigation news Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://ewweb.com/news/bulbo/electric_snc_manufacturing_launches SNC Manufacturing Co., Inc., Oshkosh, Wis., launched a redesigned website, www.sncmfg.com, to provide information on the company's transformer and telecom products and services. For companies interested in transformers, coils or value-added assemblies, the new site profiles a variety of products ranging from autotransformers and industrial control transformers to toroidal transformers and inductors bulbo Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://ewweb.com/news/electric_novaled_tcp_file Two lighting companies announced plans over the past month to file initial public offerings (IPO) to help fund their growth in energy-efficient lighting. Novaled AG, Dresden, Germany, a manufacturer of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and TCP International Holdings Ltd., Shanghai, China, which focuses on compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), are going public. Novaled was founded in 2001 as a spin-off news Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://ewweb.com/news/latest/electric_paramont_electrical_supplies In a move that will consolidate ownership of some independent electrical distribution in the Chicagoland area, Paramont Electrical Supplies, Broadview, Ill., is acquiring Evergreen Oak Electric Supply and Sales Co., Crestwood, Ill., including its lighting showroom division Crest Lighting. Evergreen Oak, which claimed the 88th spot on Electrical Wholesaling's Top 200 list of the largest electrical latest Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EDT