Myriant Corporation, a global renewable chemicals company, announced the successful start-up at its flagship bio-succinic acid plant located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Myriant has produced on-spec commercial product at the plant and the ...
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Sumitomo Chemical Co has reduced operating rates at its Caprolactam (CPL) plant to 50% capacity levels. This was revealed to fibre2fashion by a Sumitomo official. Providing reasons for lowering the rates, he said, “Demand from ...
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Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) has become the first clinical reference laboratory to offer Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HCV Test, v2.0, a viral load assay for hepatitis C virus. Designed with enhanced ...
Linkx Systems has developed and installed a new robotic palletizer system for Unilever Bestfoods plant in Norwich. Unilever Bestfoods approached Linkx to provide automatic palletizing for random packs of cook-in sauces from three adjacent ...
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Jiangsu Shuangsheng Paper, the operating subsidiary of China Shengda Packaging Group, has completed the construction of a paper mill and commenced production. China Shengda Packaging chief executive officer Daliang Teng said the company ...
BehrPro, the Professional Products and Services Group of Behr Process Corporation, introduced the new Behr Premium Deckover exterior coating that revives old weathered wood and concrete surfaces. Featuring 100 percent acrylic resin fused ...
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Norcross Corporation has itroduced the Natural Sensitivity Factor, a new independent standard for analyzing and comparing the performance of any viscosity measuring device - regardless of application, industry, manufacturer, size of run, or ...
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SCIGRIP, the global leader in adhesive solutions, has appointed Mark Rogan as European Key Account Manager. Mark will be responsible for SCIGRIP's sales activity and customer account management in select regions of Europe and the ...
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Microsoft let slip its plans for the future life of its ARM-powered Surface RT device recently, during a keynote speech at TechEd Europe 2013 e-learning and and education technology summit. When Computing asked Microsoft strategic ...
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Walmart has begun selling the Chromebook in 2,800 of its approximately 4,600 U.S. stores, expanding the reach of this still-on-the-margins platform. Staples will also be selling the Chromebook in 1,500 stores, Google said on Monday. ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and ...
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Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, ...
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Google's Chromebook laptop will be carried by more than 6,600 stores around the world, as the company signs on more retailers. Starting Monday, Walmart is offering an Acer Chromebook, which has a 16GB Solid State Drive, in about 2,800 ...
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Centrifugal pumps are basic high pressure pumps. It is available in different brands to choose from in the market. These high pressure pumps play a major role in lifting liquids and gases from the lower level to the higher level. Nowadays, ...
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US demand for high-performance flat glass products is forecast to rise 4.4 percent per year to 910 million square feet in 2017, valued at nearly $9.2 billion. This will represent a substantial improvement from the performance of the ...
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