H.B. Fuller is set to open a new Packaging Center of Excellence in North America in a bid to address customers packaging adhesives needs across a broad range of applications. According to the global adhesives provider, the Packaging ...
Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., today said it will increase the price of its phosphate ester specialty surfactants to the coatings industry by 5 percent effective October 1, 2013, or as contracts allow. The ...
The Asian naphtha market may firm going into the last two months of this year on curtailed arbitrage flows which will likely tighten supply balances and year-end demand mopping up excess naphtha supply from the higher arbitrage arrivals in ...
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US toluene disproportionation margins have moved into negative territory after toluene spot prices moved higher against declining benzene and mixed xylene spot pricing. Mobil selective toluene disproportionation margins were also ...
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China's investment in exploration of oil and gas resources is expected to stand at 80 billion yuan (13.07 billion U.S. dollars) in 2013, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources. Such investment has risen steadily in China over the ...
Celanese will raise global prices for acetyl intermediates effective October 1, the company said In the US and Canada, Celanese will raise prices for vinyl acetate monomer by 2 cents/lb ($44/mt). Celanese will also increase vinyl acetate ...
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A top energy watchdog forecast the U.S. will bypass Russia in the production of liquid fuels--everything from crude and gasoline to biofuels like ethanol--solidifying America's growing importance in global energy markets. The ...
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Efforts by the government and industry to curb the oversupply of Chinese metallurgical coke were much discussed at the 11th China International Coking Technology and Coke Market Congress in Guangxi Wednesday. Chinese coke producers "must ...
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Northwest European butane prices remain too high to attract petrochemical buying despite their recent slide, sources said Thursday. "At this stage we can't afford these butane levels," said a trader. Delivered prices of butane coasters, ...
The process of manufacturing chemicals on a large scale is carried out in a chemical development plant. For this process many different kinds of units, equipments and technology is used. There are various sectors which use technology called ...
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Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. wil be showcasing a number of innovative products that deliver solutions to coatings professionals at this year's Asia Pacific Coatings Show (APCS), Sept. 12 - 13 in Bangkok. MSC will present products ...
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Green Biologics, Inc. ("GBI"), a technology developer and emerging bio-based chemicals producer based in Gahanna, Ohio, and Central MN Ethanol Co-op ("CMEC"), an ethanol producer in Little Falls, MN, today announced that Green Biologics, ...
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Online illegal and fake ads for medicines will be the next major target for the authorities as they seek to establish a long-term mechanism to curb such ads in the wake of a three-month crackdown. Authorities have started to draft ...
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Hundreds of delegates from countries representing 90% of the global LNG trade returned to Tokyo this year to hash out the debate started years ago by the discovery of new North American and African gas supplies -- whether to move away from ...
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The European Parliament voted Wednesday to limit the use of biofuels in the European Union, one of a series of potential changes to the bloc's climate-change policies that investors say are creating uncertainty and bottling up energy ...
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