Earlier this month,?Lavabit?and?Silent Circle?-?two privacy-minded email providers – decided to shut up shop rather than give the US government the chance to access their customer data. Shortly thereafter, Lavabit owner Ladar ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
ExxonMobil Chemical and Total Petrochemicals are joining other polypropylene producers seeking 2-cent/lb ($44/mt) increases effective August 1, sources said Wednesday. "Everyone is going for two (cents/lb) on the (margin) expansion," a ...
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Phillips 66 will reduce delivery of polypropylene grades because of issues with feedstock supply, further squeezing an already tight market, sources said Tuesday. The company announced the measure late Monday in a letter to customers ...
US polypropylene contracts for June were settling this week at a 3-cent/lb ($66/mt) increase, following a similar hike on feedstock propylene, sources said Friday. The 4% increase pushed homopolymer injection grade polypropylene to 74-75 ...
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Ineos Olefins and Polymers seeks to increase its polypropylene prices in the US by 2 cents/pound ($44/metric ton) for July, joining other producers seeking to expand margins for the second time this year, market sources said Monday. The ...
Tags: Polypropylene, Chemicals
US polymer-grade propylene contracts for April were reportedly starting to settle down 10 cents at 63 cents/lb delivered, one major buyer and two trader sources said Monday. Negotiations were not finalized and another major buyer reported ...
ExxonMobil Chemical has nominated an initial April polymer-grade propylene contract price down 7 cents from March to 66 cents/lb, market sources said Monday. Officials with the company could not be reached for immediate comment. The ...
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Security researchers have uncovered yet another ongoing cyberespionage operation targeting political and human rights activists, government agencies, research organizations and industrial manufacturers primarily from Eastern European ...
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US polypropylene contract prices for March fell 6 cents/lb ($132/mt) to 82-83 cents/lb ($1,808-$1,830/mt) for homopolymer injection grade on a delivered-via-railcar basis, sources said Monday. The decline was the result of a similar drop ...
Tags: polypropylene, CPs, contract polymer
When a relatively small high-tech company with some big aerospace and defense customers wanted to adopt cloud-based email for its employees, it faced the challenge that whatever choice of cloud service it adopted, it had to meet the ...
Unidentified attackers stole sensitive information from hundreds of diplomatic, government, research and military organizations from around the world as part of a newly uncovered cyberespionage campaign that started nearly six years ago. ...
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Symantec this week announced two new data encryption options, one that is file-based encryption for use with Dropbox, and the second that works as an extension to the AppleiOS mail client to encrypt and decrypt documents. Symantec Mobile ...
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US domestic polypropylene contracts for December were expected to rise 1 cent/lb ($22/mt) from November to around 66-67 cents/lb for homopolymer injection, in line with a similar uptick taking place in the monomer market, sources said ...
Tags: polypropylene, polymer grade propylene, polypropylene market
The new processors are based on Intel's 22nm microarchitecture Chip maker Intel has released its third generation Intel Core vPro processors, codenamed Ivy Bridge, designed for use in business laptops, desktops PCs and Ultrabook devices. ...
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PGP International has broken ground on a$17.2m manufacturing and distribution facility in Indiana,US,as part of its plan to boost production of speciality food ingredients and additives. The 70,000ft2 facility,which will be located in ...
Tags: food ingredients, additives, animal feed