Swedish food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak has supplied its processing and packaging equipment for Fonterra’s NZ$100m ($77m) ultra high temperature (UHT) greenfield plant in Waitoa, New Zealand. Tetra Pak commercial ...
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The Qualifying Renewable Chemical Production Tax Credit Act of 2013 has been introduced by the new legislation to reduce taxes for producers of renewable chemicals in the US. The act also provides the renewable chemical producers with ...
Asian butadiene prices are at a 3-1/2 half year low amid weak demand and a glut of synthetic rubber stocks, Platts data showed. The FOB Korea benchmark for butadiene stood at $1,350/mt on June 17. The last time butadiene prices were ...
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Phillips 66 will reduce delivery of polypropylene grades because of issues with feedstock supply, further squeezing an already tight market, sources said Tuesday. The company announced the measure late Monday in a letter to customers ...
Shell is proceeding with front-end engineering and design work for its proposed LNG import facility in Batangas, Philippines, it said Sunday. The decision comes a year after Shell signed a memorandum of understanding with the Philippines' ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,22 commodities increased in prices, 37 fell and 41 remained unchanged on 02/07/2013.The largest rises were Copper (2.35%),Acrylic acid (1.63%),PC (1.04%),while the largest ...
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A combination of GlaxoSmithKline’s GSK744 and J&J’s TMC278 monthly injection therapy, designed to evaluate its potential to control HIV, is currently being tested. Results of a study, which was conducted on 40 HIV-negative ...
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The price spread in Asia between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene soared to an all-time high of $501.50/mt Monday, Platts data showed, as the SM market surged on news that South Korea's Lotte Chemical had delayed the restart ...
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Nearly a decade after re-entering the US Gulf of Mexico and five years into its shale play foray onshore, Statoil is now an operator in both arenas, a coup for the Norwegian company best known for harsh-environment marine operations. ...
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The price spread between CFR Far East Asia polypropylene and feedstock propylene narrowed to flat, with both prices assessed at $1,425/mt on Friday, according to Platts data. PP prices shed $5/mt day on day to $1,425/mt CFR Far East Asia ...
The Einstein Award for 2013 from solar module maker SolarWorld AG of Bonn Germany has been awarded to professor Eicke R. Weber, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) Freiburg, Germany (the largest solar energy ...
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China-based researchers have reported that country's first diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs) with RF characteristics [Feng ZhiHong et al, Science China Technological Sciences, vol56, p957, 2013]. The team was ...
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Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) says that on 12 June its board of directors ...
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More than 100 billion gallium nitride light-emitting diodes will ship in 2013, according to the report 'Q2 GaN LED Supply and Demand' from IMS Research (now part of IHS Inc). With mobile phones typically containing five or 10 LEDs and ...
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SEMI-GAS Systems, a division of Applied Energy Systems Inc of Malvern, PA, USA and a manufacturer of ultra-high-purity gas handling and distribution systems, offers a controller-activated cylinder connection cover that the firm says ...
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