The UAE's Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange, or DGCX, and China's Dalian Commodity Exchange, or DCE, announced Wednesday that they will simultaneously launch their respective polypropylene futures contracts on February 28. "The ...
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With the oven ablaze melting shattered glass in the workshop and the nearby store abuzz with curious customers, it is hard to imagine that just a few months ago Lebanon’s last glass blower was about to close shop for good. On a ...
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Inspired by tiny particles that carry cholesterol through the body, MIT chemical engineers have designed nanoparticles that can deliver snippets of genetic material that turn off disease-causing genes. This approach, known as RNA ...
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Clinical trials investigating new uses for the anti-cancer drug Avastin have produced mixed results. When combined with standard chemotherapy, Avastin extended the survival of patients with advanced cervical cancer by nearly four months, ...
Nearly 6,200 cattle men and women are descending on Nashville, Tennessee, this week for the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention. And nearly every one of them got up early on Tuesday to hear from their single biggest customer: McDonald's. Bob ...
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LEDtronics®, Inc., today announced that it helped the Hilton Garden Inn in Washington, D.C., eliminate the time and costs involved in maintaining old, incandescent bulbs on their marquee canopy by replacing them with the latest in ...
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Monvera Glass Décor, a provider of screen printed labels is pleased to announce the completion of $1.6M expansion plan. The expansion was initiated back in October 2011 with the relocation to the Ford Point facility in Point ...
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Most of Taiwan's machine-tool makers made encouraging profits in the first third quarters of 2013 in spite of several disadvantageous developments, including the recent revaluation of the New Taiwan dollar against the U.S. dollar that has ...
Tags: Machine Tool, automated equipment
An index of leading economic indicators increased 0.1% in December after a 1% rise in November that was higher than originally reported, the New York-based Conference Board said Jan 23. The increase was lower than economists' medium ...
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The traditional microwave meal was always associated with TV dinners that could easily and conveniently be whipped up in two minutes. Just as our palates have improved with exposure to fancy dinners on TV programs, so too have microwaves ...
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John Swainston, MD of Maxwell International Australia (left) and Brad Anderson, Lexar VP of worldwide sales. Digital imaging distributor Maxwell International has today announced that it has picked up the distribution for Lexar memory ...
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Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
After an extensive search, Surftech announced the hiring of three new California sales representatives. In Northern CA, Surftech has hired Mike Rosen, Johnny Lyons and Rob Furtney of Livin the Dream Sales to service the SUP Market. Livin ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
When one encounters a group of fruit flies invading their kitchen, it probably appears as if the whole group is vying for a sweet treat. But a closer look would likely reveal the male flies in the group are putting up more of a fight, ...
Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...
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