Performance, Ride & Handling 3.5 Comfort & Interior 4.5 Quality & Design 4.5 Value & Features 3.5 Safety 5 A Honda Civic Hatch fuelled by diesel is one Honda that can’t be accused of lacking torque. The Honda Civic Hatch ...
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Global plastics manufacturer Promens has signed an agreement with the government of Taicang City, Jiangsu Province to open a plastics production facility in Taicang near Shanghai in China. Promens Asia managing director Bjarki Gardarsson ...
Asian acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene producers Thursday said a sharp drop in ABS demand in China in the first quarter of 2013 could be linked to a record decline in worldwide sales of personal computers as reported by the US-based research ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,15 commodities increased in prices, 23 fell and 62 remained unchanged on 12/04/2013.The largest rises were FULLDRAWNYARN (4.16%),Ethylene glycol (3.18%),PREORIENTEDYARN ...
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Agri-Plastics Man-u-fac-tur-ing has joined the Reusable Pack-ag-ing Asso-ci-a-tion and will exhibit in the association’s Reusable Pack-ag-ing Pavil-ion at PACK EXPO in Las Vegas this year. Agri-Plas-tics Man-u-fac-tur-ing is a ...
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Arkema announces that it has acquired a majority stake in AEC Polymers, a French manufacturer of structural adhesives. AEC Polymers recently developed a range of methacrylate glues (SAF® range) based on an Arkema technology, which boast ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,24 commodities increased in prices, 31 fell and 45 remained unchanged on 11/04/2013.The largest rises were 2-EH (1.59%),Chloroform (1.39%),PTA (1.28%),while the largest ...
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in food packaging such as tins, bottles (including baby bottles until recently), and boxes as well as in dental fillings. Its use has been a concern among food and health officials and governments for several ...
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Our Rating: Performance, Ride & Handling 4 Comfort & Interior 3.5 Quality & Design 3.5 Value & Features 4 The 2013 Kia Cerato represents the third instalment of a nameplate that carries the South Korean brand's fortunes in ...
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The multinational has agreed to sell the Van der Windt Group, which has operations in Netherlands, Belgium, England and Ireland, to Dutch distribution business the Paardekooper Group for €68.5m. In North American, meanwhile, ...
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Plastic caps and closures producer Procap has announced the acquisition of Schoeller Cap Systems (SCS) in Schwerin, Germany. The acquisition will provide Procap its first local manufacturing facility and enable the new enterprise Procap ...
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Injection molded and blow molded plastic products supplier Wuxi Glory is all set to exhibit its products at the CHINAPLAS 2013 at China Import & Export Fair Complex, Pazhou, Guangzhou, taking place from 20 to 23 May 2013. Wuxi Glory ...
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Australian developer and manufacturer of sustainable resins Cardia Bioplastics has joined forces with Highland Plastics to provide sustainable packaging systems for consumer and institutional applications. As part of this, Highland ...
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Today we heard the sad news that Britain's first woman Prime Minister has died.? Not so well known is her time in the plastics industry. It was in 1947 that BX Plastics based in Manningtree, Essex took on 17 new researchers. Three were ...
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Plastic Connectors Benefit Critical ApplicationsRiley Phipps, Technical and Design Services Manager, Value Plastics, Inc., a Nordson Company Industrial and laboratory OEM designers are constantly being challenged to come up with more ...