Westlake Chemical Corporation has awarded a contract to Technip to provide detailed engineering and procurement services to expand the recovery section of Westlake’s Petro 1 ethylene plant in Sulphur, Louisiana, USA. A statement ...
For the main part of China’s history, women were dominated by a patriarchic system and forced to a background role. Only in recent history have they reached a more equal position in Chinese society and started to visibly shape the ...
Tags: Role of Women, China's history
Open Joint Stock Company, Baranovichi Cotton Production Amalgamation, (Blakit),one of the largest manufacturers of textile products in Europe and CIS countries, would have to establish a joint venture in Turkmenistan, according to the Prime ...
Tags: Cotton Production, joint venture, Textile
East Africa is undergoing a major transformation to become a new world-class player on the energy market. By 2025, east Africa is expected to experience an incremental production growth of nearly one million barrels per day (b/d), led by ...
Tags: energy market, Hydrocarbon
Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has announced that it has commissioned the new sinter machine and the coke oven battery No. 11 at its Bhilai steel plant. According to SAIL, these two units are critical ...
Tags: Coke Oven Battery, Sinter Machine
German steelmaker ThyssenKrpp has announced that its blast furnace No. 2in Duisburg-Schwelgern, Europe's biggest blast furnace, is back in operation after three months of a halt in production to carry out necessary modernization work. The ...
Tags: Blast Furnace, Metallurgy
Format-wise, the Obama Administration's policies in the Ukraine crisis appear to have troubles in two aspects: the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific and containment of Russia. First, national strength in the United States is falling short of ...
Tags: Service, Economy Cooperation, Opinion
Germany-based long steel producer Saarstahl has announced that it is investing €30 million in the complete modernization of its wire rod mill in Neunkirchen, aiming to secure market share in the premium quality sectors for customers in ...
Russian vertically integrated company Russian Railways (RZD), which manages infrastructure and operates freight and passenger train services, has reported that it has started to receive supplies of high-strength, one hundred meter-long ...
As part of the Angolan Government’s strategy to rehabilitate the domestic textile industry, Africa Textil, a textile mill located in Benguela will shortly commence operations. Africa Textil first began manufacturing activity in ...
Tags: Angolan Textile Mill, Production, Textile
ThyssenKrupp plans to invest up to BRL 450 million (US$197.4 million) in Brazil between 2013 and 2016, according to media reports. Several projects, which are included in the total investments the company expects to make in the country, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
“Clothing is one of the largest purchased categories in online retail and it proves that not all consumers wish to ‘touch and feel’ all clothing items all the time, says the top honcho of a textile, apparel and retail ...
Tags: Online, Apparel, Accessories
International demand on the rise, especially in Asia, says VDMA survey, but domestic markets still drag. The European machine vision (MV) industry is in “an excellent condition”, according to the German VDMA’s latest ...
Tags: machine vision, MV industry, Machinery
WASHINGTON– Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Request for Information (RFI) to seek comment on potential revisions to its Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations and related programs to modernize its ...
Tags: EPA, RFI, Office Supplies
The global protective coatings market, along with its end products, has witnessed a remarkable growth in the past few years. This growth is estimated to increase in the coming years. The quality, durability, corrosion and fire protection ...
Tags: Protective Coatings, growth, Decoration