Thierry Le Hénaff, Arkema’s Chairman and CEO, inaugurated Arkema’s first R&D Center in China on Thursday October 17 on the Changshu industrial site in the presence of the Chinese authorities. At the cutting edge of ...
DSM Dyneema, the manufacturer of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMwPE) fiber, branded as Dyneema, and world leader in life protection materials and high performance fibers, has effected a global price increase of 5% for all DSM ...
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14,420 visitors from 104 countries and 845 exhibitors from 27 countries gathered from 16 to 19 September for the 33rd Texworld show. The overall number of visitors remained stable compared with the show in September 2012. A healthy rise ...
The imports of cotton by Vietnam in the first nine months of current year have increased by 35 percent year-on-year to 430,000 tons, valued at US$ 864 million, Viet Nam News reported. Vietnam Cotton and Spinning Association ...
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This year’s Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics with the largest ever, with more than 3,700 exhibitors from 35 countries and regions taking part will open next Monday. Covering 170,000 sqm, a total of 15 halls will be occupied at ...
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Twenty years ago, a group of 12 individuals—11 installers and one retailer—who were concerned with the way the installation profession was being viewed and treated decided it was time to band together and change the image of ...
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Shamrock Plank Flooring has announced the addition of a pre-finishing plant located in Hernando, MS. This addition allows Shamrock to be truly vertically integrated and have a unique niche in the flooring market. Shamrock's new ...
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Nederman has received a SEK55 million order from Johnson Control Inc to supply solutions for the filtration of lead dust in two plants in North America. The order includes baghouses to filtrate lead dust from several furnaces in two North ...
Joe Oliver, Canada's minister of natural resources, recently announced a proposed amendment to Canada's energy efficiency standards for light bulbs, saying it will provide greater choice for consumers and align with standards in the United ...
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Dragon Aromatics is likely to start commercial production at its No.2 Paraxylene (PX) plant by the end of this month. “We have achieved on-spec production at No.2 PX plant earlier this month and plan to start commercial production ...
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Thomson Reuters CTO James Powell claimed that as a major provider of electronic information his organisation has been managing big data for more than two decades. "The term is overused, but we've been a big data organisation for more than ...
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Polymer Group, Inc. (PGI) announced that it has commenced a consent solicitation (the "Solicitation") to amend (the "Proposed Amendments") the indenture, dated January 28, 2011, (the "Indenture") among PGI, the guarantors party thereto and ...
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Comfortably cool in summer and cosy warm in winter, all with minimum energy use. The Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim/Germany have expanded their current range of tests to allow modern office and living spaces, vehicle interiors, ...
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Up to 90 percent of cotton grown in Uzbekistan would be machine-harvested by 2016 as the Tashkent Tractor Plant is set to manufacture cotton-picker machines, Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev has said, RIA Novosti reported. In ...
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Faced with continued economic uncertainty and used to doing more with less, consumers will take a conservative approach to spending this holiday season. According to NRF’s holiday consumer spending survey conducted by Prosper Insights ...
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