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Four Major Trade Associations in Germany Announced The Creation of Composites Germany

Sep 26, 2013

Four major trade associations in Germany this week announced the creation of Composites Germany, a new umbrella organisation designed to strengthen the composites industry in the country. The new body replace AVK within the EuCIA European ...

Tags: Composites Trade Body

GIANT PANDAS Are Well Known for Being Rather Different From Other Bears

Sep 26, 2013

GIANT PANDAS are well known for being rather different from other bears. Having a diet composed almost entirely of bamboo is one of the things that sets them apart. It is also what attracted the interest of Ashli Brown of Mississippi State ...

Tags: Power-Microbes, Chemicals

Rising Raw Material Prices and Crash of Rupee Has Badly Mauled India's Plastics Industry

Sep 26, 2013

Rising raw material prices and the crash of the rupee has badly mauled India's plastic industry, according to the country's largest plastics trade association. "[The] future of over 50,000 manufacturing units and four million jobs are at ...

Tags: Plastics Industry, Polymer Costs

Americas Styrenics Has Declared Force Majeure on Polystyrene Resin

Sep 25, 2013

Americas Styrenics has declared force majeure on polystyrene resin after a power outage at its plant in Torrance, Calif. The Sept. 15 outage was "a total power failure," PS business director Tim Barnette said in a Sept. 17 statement. ...

Tags: Polystyrene, Styrenics

FOB Houston Propane Differential Has Dropped 53% Since July 1

Sep 25, 2013

The FOB Houston propane differential has dropped 53% since July 1 as increasing exports and falling international propane prices narrow the arbitrage out of the Gulf Coast. Platts started assessing FOB Houston propane cargoes on July 1 as ...

Tags: Higher Exports, Coast Propane Arbitrage

Spectra Packaging Has Introduced an 'Environmentally Friendly Biopolymer'

Sep 25, 2013

Suffolk-based Spectra Packaging has introduced an "environmentally friendly biopolymer" to its range of products. According to the company, it can now offer its customers plastic packaging made from ethanol from sugarcane as opposed to ...

Tags: Spectra, Packaging

Chinese Drivers Will Have to Pay More in Fuel Prices Amid The Country's Drive

Sep 25, 2013

Chinese drivers will have to pay more in fuel prices amid the country's drive to reduce air pollution through upgraded fuel quality. In the next two years, the prices of motor gasoline and diesel which meet the national 'fourth-phase' ...

Tags: Pricing Policy, Greener Fuel

China's Gasoil Exports in August Hit an Almost 17-Month Low of 70,000 Mt

Sep 25, 2013

China's gasoil exports in August hit an almost 17-month low of 70,000 mt, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs late Monday. The volumes were the lowest since March 2012, when China exported 60,000 mt of ...

Tags: Gasoil Exports, Chemicals

France Is to Reduce Fossil Fuel Consumption by 30% by 2030

Sep 25, 2013

France is to use profits from nuclear power plants along with a new carbon tax to help fund growth in renewable power and energy efficiency, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraut said Saturday. In a speech in Paris marking the end of France's ...

Tags: Nuclear Tax, Carbon Tax

Green Development Is Facing a Series of Obstacles

Sep 24, 2013

Green development is facing a series of obstacles, as Jiang Xueqing reports in Changchun. Seven years after China's Renewable Energy Law took effect in January 2006, renewable energy companies are making huge contributions to the ...

Tags: New-Energy, Wind Farm

Propane Industry Set Its Sights on That Symbol of American Middle-Class Achievement

Sep 24, 2013

The propane industry has set its sights on that symbol of American middle-class achievement: the lawn mower. Blame it in part on the natural-gas drilling boom, which has left distributors scrambling to find new ways to increase demand for ...

Tags: Lawn Mowers, Tools, Hardware, propane

Europe's Oil-refining Businesses Will Have to Slim Down Further

Sep 23, 2013

Europe's oil-refining businesses will have to slim down further and then pump billions of dollars into what remains, the head of one of Europe's leading oil trade associations said Thursday. Michel Bénézit, president of ...

Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy

Ashland Said It Will Increase The Price of Phosphate Ester Specialty Surfactants

Sep 22, 2013

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), today said it will increase the price of its Dextrol™ and Strodex™ phosphate ester specialty surfactants to the coatings industry by 5 percent ...

Tags: Ashland Announces, Construction, Chemicals, Coatings

New Technology Is Helping to Make Oil Production Sustainable at Extreme Temperature

Sep 22, 2013

Thousands of meters beneath the waves and the sea floor, new technology pioneered by small firms is helping to make oil production sustainable at extreme temperature and pressure. More than a decade of high oil prices combined with ...

Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy

Brazil's Government Plans to Finance State-run Oil Company

Sep 22, 2013

Brazil's government plans to finance state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA's participation in the October 21 auction of Libra, country's largest-ever oil discovery, the Estado de S. Paulo daily newspaper reported on Saturday. The ...

Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy

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