The Indian Supreme Court has rejected Novartis' patent application for its anti-cancer drug Glivec (imatinib mesylate) saying that “application for patent on the beta-crystalline salt does not meet any standard of novelty or ...
Tags: Indian Apex, Novartis'Patent Plea, Glivec
Corrugated packaging company Smurfit Kappa has invested in a new in-line laminator for its Massa Lombarda plant in Italy. According to the Irish company, the machine is said to be suitable for solid board as well as carton board in single ...
Tags: Smurfit Kappa, in-Line Laminator
The more established shutter glass 3D technology now faces competition from the film patterned retarder technology as the demand for 3D TV rises, notes NPD DisplaySearch. According to the NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Display Optical Film ...
Tags: 3D TV, Shutter Glass Technology
IDG News Service - An electronics and a recycling trade group are looking for ways to reuse recycled cathode ray tube (CRT) glass from computer monitors and television sets, with a US$10,000 prize for the best proposal. The Consumer ...
Tags: CRT Glass, Trade Groups, Decoration
As of March 29, inventory of the main finished steel products (plate, hot rolled coil (HRC), cold rolled coil (CRC), rebar and wire rod) in the major steel markets in China totaled 21.927 million mt, down 154,000 mt week on week and ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) for its domestic manufacturing sector was at 50.9 percent in March this year, up 0.8 percentage points compared to February and standing above 50 percent for six months in a row, according to the ...
Russian pipe producer Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) has announced that in February-March 2013, it has supplied 1,200 mt of casings with Premium connections to Russian oil company Gazprom Neft for the construction of new oil wells ...
Tags: ChTPZ Ships, Gazprom Neft
According to the data announced by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), in February this year Indonesia's steel imports totaled $843 million in value, decreasing by 4.6 percent as compared to the previous month, while the country's import value for ...
Tags: Indonesia, Import Value, Mineral
In February this year, Japan's industrial production decreased 0.1 percent from the previous month, showing a month-on-month decrease for the first month in three months. Japan's industrial output showed a decrease of 11 percent from ...
Tags: Industrial Output, Mineral, Japan
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Exporters' Association (TIM), in March this year Turkey's steel exports totaled $1.5 billion in value, increasing by 10.3 percent year on year and up 17.8 percent ...
Tags: Steel Export, Mineral, export value
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in February this year Turkey's iron and steel imports totaled $1.4 billion, decreasing ...
Tags: Steel Import, Mineral, Metallurgy
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group announced that as of March 24, its Yanshan iron ore mine , produced 375,600 mt of iron ore concentrate in January-March period of the current year, exceeding the target for ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Mineral, Metallurgy
In the week ended March 28, prices decreased again in the London Metal Exchange (LME) billet market, after the strong fall recorded in the previous week. The following prices were recorded in LME billet contract trading as of the end of ...
Tags: Mineral, LME Billet Market, Metallurgy
In the week from March 25 to March 31, the scrap indexes started to move downwards on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index slightly decreased. The Turkish flat rolled products indexes have not shown any changes ...
Tags: Scrap, Steel Index, Mineral
Windows 8 last month fell even further behind the historical adoption pace of Windows Vista, Microsoft's 2007 flop, new statistics showed today. The bright spot for Windows 8 in the data from Web analytics company Net Applications: Its ...
Tags: Windows 8, software, Computer Products