In line with its strategy to focus its consumer board offering on high quality virgin fibre products, Stora Enso has sold its Barcelona mill, which produces recycled fibre based consumer board, to private equity fund Quantum. “The ...
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There is no change in exemption from excise duty for textile goods as mentioned in central value added tax (CENVAT) Rules 2004, the Union Ministry of Finance has clarified. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) had issued a ...
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Revenue for the three months to June 30, 2015 at speciality chemicals producer Eastman Chemical Company rose 3 per cent year over year. “Revenue for the second quarter of 2015 amounted to $2.5 billion, up 3 per cent over the same ...
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Integrated Fabric Resource (IFR), which specialises in the custom design, development, and manufacturing of textile-based returnable packaging systems and containers for various industries, has announced the start of an additional ...
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The Hurun Luxury Consumer Price Index, an annual study that gauges levels of top-end individual spending in China, has contracted for the first time in eight years. The LCPI 2015 dropped 1.8 percent year-on-year, said wealth researcher ...
As Australian-based Chinese students and others are buying up whatever infant formula products are sitting on Australian retail shelves, China is currently considering introducing a registration system for first-time baby formula importers. ...
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Although the production capability of China-based notebook ODMs is still too small to make a significant impact on their Taiwan-based counterparts, the notebook supply chain in China stands a chance of expanding their presence in the global ...
German petrochemicals producer BASF said July 24 that it expected the economic slowdown in China, margin volatility and growth uncertainty in Europe to be the biggest risks to growth for its chemicals division during the second half of the ...
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PPG Industries’ protective and marine coatings (PMC) business announced that four individual coatings and primers and two combined coating-and-primer systems have been certified by NSF International for water-tank applications. The ...
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PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has introduced SPECTRACRON SEP primer, a fast-drying, two-component (2K), wet-on-wet epoxy primer that is designed to help heavy-duty original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) increase ...
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Members of the Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association (RCMA) met with their Members of Congress on Capitol Hill last Wednesday, July 15 as part of the Association’s Summer Meeting and Legislative Day. Over 30 RCMA members ...
The Lubrizol Corporation has announced the launch of a new hyperdispersant reactor at its Avon Lake, Ohio facility. The unit will be used for the manufacture of Solsperse(TM) hyperdispersants. Through excellent dispersion stability, ...
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Dymax Corporation has released a new gasketing materials selector guide that provides useful product information and simplifies the product selection process. Light-curable form-in-place, cure-in-place gasketing materials are used in ...
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Axalta Coating Systems has introduced a new generation of waterborne tints for automotive market in China, aimed at offering carmakers and body shops a more sustainable way to meet consumer preference for stronger, brighter, more vivid ...
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Johnson Matthey Process Technologies, a provider of advanced process technologies, and Rennovia Inc., a privately held company that develops novel catalysts and processes for the cost advantaged production of chemical products from ...
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