Closer partnerships between textile recyclers, local authorities and waste management companies can play a major role in diverting greater volumes of discarded clothing and household textiles from landfill, delegates at the UK’s ...
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Ethanol producers in the US, the world's largest maker of the biofuel, saw margins sink further into negative territory in October as selling prices fell around 4% from September, according to a study by Iowa State University. ...
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Demand for high impact polystyrene in Asia has fallen over the past one month on plunging acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene prices, making it more attractive than HIPS for many customers, Asian HIPS producers said this week. ABS is a ...
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US steam cracker margins showed minor increase against lower feedstock costs in a shortened holiday week,as US markets were closed for celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. Platts'close of assessment for the week was at 12:30 p.m.CST ...
Tags: steam cracker margins, Ethane-based ethylene margins, data, price
Sulzer Chemtech has been contracted to carry out the procurement and construction work for around CHF 20 million for a vacuum distillation revamp of Saudi Aramco’s lubricating oil refining plant, located in Yanbu Industrial City, ...
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Westlake Chemical Corporation reported net income for the three months ended September 30, 2012 of $87.0 million, or $1.30 per diluted share, on sales of $821.2 million. This represents an increase in net income of $19.1 million from the ...
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Revenues for pumps, valves, instrumentation, fluid filtration and air pollution control in the fuels market will reach $5.8 billion next year. This is the conclusion of the most recent forecast in Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: ...
Tags: industry trends, Purification, Flow Control
Even in the midst of rising demand from China's ethylene sector, naphtha's contribution to the sector's overall feedstock mix is expected to fall over the next three years, Shu Zhaoxia, Chief Analyst for Chemicals at state-owned refiner ...
Kumba Iron Ore Limited("Kumba"or"the Company")today released its production and sales report for the quarter ended 30 September 2012.Throughout this report,production and sales volumes referred to are 100%,attributable to shareholders of ...
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Japanese paraxylene (PX) producer – JX Nippon Oil and Energy has reduced the capacity rates at its PX plant located in Kashima. "Currently both the PX lines are operating at 70 percent capacity, mainly due to poor feedstock supply ...
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The recycling processes of contaminated textiles, extracted from landfills and co-mingled kerbside collections, are not environmentally and economically viable, according to two UK recycling firms, I & G Cohen Limited and Axion Consulting, ...
Oman Oil Company (OOC), a state-run enterprise, intends to develop a huge US$ 800 million petrochemical project in Sohar. The project is intended to facilitate production of one million tons of purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and ...
Tags: OOC, PTA plant, petrochemical project, home textile
Paints and coatings company,AkzoNobel,has announced plans to boost the production capacity of light emitting diodes(LEDs).This expansion,an initiative to meet the rising demand in the semi-conductor industry,will take place at the company's ...
Tags: LED, Lights, semi-conductor industry, Lighting
AkzoNobel is to boost capacity of its worldscale Trimethyl Gallium(TMGa)plant in La Porte,Texas,US-consolidating the plant's status as the largest of its kind in the world.The investment involves extending the Trimethyl Aluminum(TMAl)unit ...
AkzoNobel of Amsterdam,The Netherlands is to boost capacity at one of its US sites in order to meet increasing demand from the semiconductor industry,particularly for the production of light-emitting diodes. The investment-at its ...
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