Since July 2013, the certification “STeP by OEKO-TEX” has been offering companies in the textile value-creation chain the opportunity to have their production plants independently evaluated and certified with regard to the use ...
You will find an automatic valve actuator working hard in many commercial and industrial applications, such as petrol refineries, oil plants, waste water management plants, and even in some sea-water marine mining and construction ventures. ...
Berry Plastics Group, a provider of value-added plastic consumer packaging and engineered materials, is set to invest $31m for new infrastructure and equipment at its four manufacturing plants in the US. The company will also transfer ...
Braskem and Genomatica announced an agreement for the joint development of commercial process technology to make bio-based butadiene from renewable feedstocks. Braskem is the world's leading producer of biopolymers and the world's third ...
Tags: Braskem, Genomatica, bio-based butadiene, renewable feedstocks
Dow Chemical is looking to separate about 40 manufacturing plants from its business as it continues to concentrate on moving away from cyclical commodity products. The company said it is considering joint ventures, spinoffs or sales. It ...
SPX Corporation announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $50M from Synutra France International, a subsidiary of Synutra International Inc., one of the leading infant nutrition companies producing and supplying in ...
Wintershall, a 100% BASF subsidiary, is optimizing its portfolio through divesting its share in selected assets on the UK Continental Shelf. Through the transaction, the Hungarian MOL Group will acquire 14 licenses in the North Sea, ...
The OEKO-TEX Secretariat was established 20 years ago in Switzerland and for this reason, this year's meeting of the OEKO-TEX General Managers on November 14th and 15th took place in Lucerne - at the heart of Europe and Switzerland. With ...
Fiber-based materials provider Ahlstrom has entered a deal to sell the converting operations of its West Carrollton plant to the US-based West Carrollton Parchment and Converting. As part of the agreement, which is expected to be ...
Evonik Industries is significantly expanding its global isophorone (IP) and isophorone diamine (IPD) capacities by funding an investment of more than €100 million in Shanghai, China. The new production plants will be completed in the ...
Hot tapping is also known as a form of pressure tapping and it is a way of connecting the present pipeline or containers, without the requirement to empty any connected part of the pipe or the container. This means that the work can be done ...
Energy efficiency of compressed air filters increased by new filtration medium. The differential pressure in filtering compressed air and gases is now being reduced by 50% following the introduction of a new filter medium, claims ...
Mr. Ruan Weixiang, the chairman of the Lonsheng Group and DyStar is pleased to announce that DyStar has acquired Lenmar Chemical Corporation of Dalton, Georgia. For over 30 years, Lenmar has very successfully manufactured specialty ...
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As the company was looking for a sound investment, it decided to invest in two Sidel Matrix blowers over two years. The investment allowed Alpla to produce bottles for the full range of Coca-Cola branded products on behalf of client ...
Tags: Alpla Mexico, Packaging
German truckmaker Daimler Trucks has announced plans to invest BRL1bn ($458.6m) in commercial vehicle plants of its Brazilian subsidiary Mercedes-Benz do Brasil in the next two years. The investment will used in the research and ...
Tags: Daimler Trucks, Commercial Vehicle