China's resource tax reform plan for the coal industry has already been submitted to the State Council and might possibly be carried out as early as January 1, 2014, a source was quoted by a financial information portal as saying Thursday. ...
Chinese industrial businesses saw profits rise 9.7 percent year on year in November, slowing from 15.1 percent in October, official data showed on Friday. Total profits of industrial companies with annual revenues of more than 20 million ...
Tags: high-tech industries, Chemicals
Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina is seeking 5.4 million kiloliters of fatty acid methyl ester over 2014-2014 for gasoil blending through tender, company officials said late Thursday. The tender, which is limited to domestic companies ...
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US propane and propylene stocks are 31% under were they stood in 2012 on increasing exports, cold weather and changing infrastructure, Energy Information Administration data released Friday showed. The stocks fell 2.51 million barrels to ...
State-owned PetroVietnam plans to start up the first phase of its 1,200 MW coal-fired power Long Phu 1 project in December 2017, the company said Monday. Under this phase, a 600 MW unit will be started up and in the second phase another ...
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"Unlock your soil's potential" is the theme for the 36th annual Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Tillage Farmers Association Workshop and Trade Show scheduled for Jan. 6-8, at the Holiday Inn-Riverside in Minot, N.D. "Many producers think that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Chemicals
In a maze of blindingly complex reactions that snap oxygen atoms off cellulose or other bio-sources to create energy-dense fuel, the starting molecule's size has a curious effect. If the oxygen-rich molecule is too short to comfortably ...
Tags: energy-dense fuel, molecule's size, oxygen-rich molecule
Power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide – an atmospheric pollutant with both health and climate impacts – have increased across India in recent years, according to a new analysis of data from a NASA satellite. The analysis of ...
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Scientists have obtained the first detailed molecular structure of a member of the Tet family of enzymes. The finding is important for the field of epigenetics because Tet enzymes chemically modify DNA, changing signposts that tell the ...
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Molecules anchored to the surfaces of nanoparticles modify and even control many characteristics of the particles, including how they interact with cells or react to light. The type of binding affects the nanoparticle's behavior and ...
One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, was the first genetic molecule to arise around 4 billion years ago, but in a ...
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China is leading the world in the mass production of graphene films used in production of cell phone and computer touch screens as a new production line began operation on Wednesday. The production line is in a graphene industrial park in ...
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Spot prices of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal in Asia continued to rise this week as suppliers lifted offer prices on deepening output cuts in South China. Platts assessed the Chinese export spot price at $2,050-2,090/mt FOB China ...
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Organic intermediates are downstream products of organic base materials and important raw materials, and they are also the important raw materials for production of fine chemical products.Organic intermediates play a very important role in ...
China will encourage Chinese steel enterprises suffering from overcapacity to transfer their businesses to overseas markets where the steel market is still very big, a top official was quoted in a statement published on the website of the ...
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