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Huawei talks about it's future with all optical networks and AI.

For data center, it will use all optical 448G optical interconnect within racks and then achieve intra-DC switching via OCS and inter-DC connection via DC-OTN.

All talks about using optical communication from 100G to 400G in space and with earth.

will also promote optical usage at home.
 

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Avimetal complete round C funding. Will expand its metals powder production by another 2000t. Will build Aluminum-Titanium lightweight alloy powder production line. It really has a pretty serious and complete product lineup. It has delivered 150 printers world wide but I think its core business is selling powders. Aluminum alloy powder and Titanium powder product lineup is pretty complete.

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Sinofiber reports that its ZT7 product line (T700) is where most of the orders are. ZT9 (T1100) production is increasing and receiving more customer validation and orders.
 

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A microcosm of the rise of the chemical industry is Hengli on Dalian's Changxing island.

TO CATCH A glimpse of China’s industrial heft, visit Changxing Island in the country’s north-east. There, jutting into the Bohai Sea, is one piece of the machine: a specialised petrochemical plant that opened in 2012 and has grown relentlessly ever since. It represents, in condensed form, the powerful mixture that has fuelled China’s
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: policy directives, state support, local incentives and restless entrepreneurs.

For the rest of the world it is also a cautionary tale. Hope springs eternal that China might rein in its excess capacity, perhaps as a result of its “anti-involution” campaign, the government’s latest attempt to curb cut-throat competition among domestic producers. But Changxing Island shows it is more realistic to expect another path—namely, that other countries will find it ever harder to displace China in global supply chains.

This is not to be confused with Shanghai's Changxing island, famously home to the Jiangnan and Hudong-Zhonghua shipyards. However, in a twist of fate, Hengli
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(not the Dalian shipyard, mind you), under its Hengli Heavy Industries subsidiary. It's the former STX site, since acquired and upgraded.

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