Oil prices dropped Monday as investors paid close attention to speeches from Federal Reserve officials for clues on monetary policies. New York Fed President William Dudley on Monday defended the Fed's decision not to trim its massive ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Fed Tapering Fears
Stockpiles of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports declined last week, according to Tuesday's Xinhua-China iron ore index report. Inventories of imported iron ore stood at 74.32 million tonnes from Sept. 17 to 23, down 990,000 tonnes or ...
Four major trade associations in Germany this week announced the creation of Composites Germany, a new umbrella organisation designed to strengthen the composites industry in the country. The new body replace AVK within the EuCIA European ...
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GIANT PANDAS are well known for being rather different from other bears. Having a diet composed almost entirely of bamboo is one of the things that sets them apart. It is also what attracted the interest of Ashli Brown of Mississippi State ...
Tags: Power-Microbes, Chemicals
Rising raw material prices and the crash of the rupee has badly mauled India's plastic industry, according to the country's largest plastics trade association. "[The] future of over 50,000 manufacturing units and four million jobs are at ...
Tags: Plastics Industry, Polymer Costs
ExxonMobil was heard nominating its October US butadiene contract price up 2 cents/lb ($44/mt), to 49 cents/lb ($1,080/mt), sources said Tuesday. ExxonMobil was unavailable to confirm the nomination immediately. Market expectations have ...
Tags: ExxonMobil, Mineral
Ethanol production in Brazil's key center-south region fell 9.6% in the first half of September compared to the last half of August, but rose 3.9% year on year, data released by trade group UNICA showed Tuesday. Total ethanol output for ...
Tags: Ethanol Production, Mineral
Mobile technologies are presenting great opportunities and challenges to even the savviest of IT. Smartphones and tablets are replacing personal computers at an accelerated pace. Corporate executives, employees, business partners and ...
Tags: Gas Industry, Power Oil
The author of the new British Council for Offices (BCO) guide to office lighting has said the rapid evolution of LED technology complicated the process for producing a comprehensive and definitive document. Speaking at the Designing the ...
UPM Raflatac has introduced a new permanent adhesive RP 30 XTRA for labeling wines, spirits and beverages. According to the company, RP 30 XTRA holds good adhesion on glass, which will enable smaller label sizes and more complex label ...
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After six years in its North Vancouver location, WerkMaster is moving to a much larger facility in Burnaby, BC. The new location will provide expanded production capacity to meet the growing global demand for WerkMaster's extensive line of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The Carton Council of North America has announced that 45% of US households can now recycle cartons through their curbside recycling programs and other recycling venues. The achivement represents an increase of 150% from 2009, when the ...
Tags: Carton Recycling
The International Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Council of Associations (IICRCA) is announcing today an open call for nominations for the 2013-2014 IICRCA Board of Directors. Nominations for the seven open seats will be accepted ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
United American Insurance Company has chosen iPipeline’s iGO e-App, with a strategy to modernize marketing of its medicare supplement insurance. The intelligent fillable form software offers speed-to-market advantages and reduces ...
Medtronic, a US-based manufacturer of implantable heart-rhythm devices, has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Complete SE (self-expanding) vascular stent for use in superficial femoral artery (SFA) and ...
Tags: Medtronic, Lower Extremities