NYMEX August crude settled $1.43 higher at $97.99/barrel Monday on Middle East tensions and as better-than-expected manufacturing data from Europe helped boost US equities. NYMEX's rise outpaced ICE August Brent's 84-cent gain to $103/b, ...
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The US exported the second highest volume of petroleum coke ever in April, according to US Energy Information Administration data. The EIA April data, released Friday, show exports of 17.78 million barrels, second only to December 2011, ...
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The European Commission has introduced new caps on mobile data roaming charges, making it cheaper to use maps, watch videos, check emails and update social networks while travelling in the EU. From today, it will cost a maximum of 0.45 + ...
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Saudi Butanol Co. has received Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry's approval for construction of the world's largest butanol plant in Jubail Industrial Complex, Saudi Arabia. Sabuco is a joint venture of three leading Saudi ...
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The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $15,000 to the Air Force Museum Foundation for construction of a fourth major building at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, ...
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OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA – says it has achieved Milestone 6 ...
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Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging has announced the expansion of global operations, which spans three continents. As part of the developments, the company acquired a facility in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, expanded the clean room ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA says that RF-Lambda of San Diego, CA, USA, which makes and distributes RF components for analog wireless networks in North America, ...
Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada has entered into a full and final settlement agreement with Florinvest SA, Heresford Ltd, Metals Corp SCRL and S.R.I.W. SA, which are all former shareholders ...
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US-based manufacturer of packaging equipment Combi Packaging Systems has developed new semi-automatic and automatic top and bottom case sealer for food processors. The new niche free equipment has been developed by the company in a bid to ...
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Packaging and pressure sensitive materials supplier in the US, Bemis has acquired all of the common stock of Foshan New Changsheng Plastics Films (NCS) in China. Bemis president and chief executive officer Henry Theisen said the ...
Petrochemical producer Total has launched the new Polypropylene Lumicene Random, which helps converters to address new challenges in food packaging. Based on metallocene technology from Total's Refining & Chemicals Division, the material ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in second-quarter 2013 it delivered a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactor (ordered in fourth-quarter 2012) to the ...
New Zealand-based multinational dairy co-operative Fonterra has selected Tetra Pak's processing and packaging equipment for its NZ$100m ($77.7m) UHT greenfield plant in Waitoa. The new facility, which will feature five UHT lines, will ...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), in conjunction with the soft drinks industry, trade associations and WRAP, has launched Soft Drinks Sustainability Roadmap (SDSR). The initiative was launched by Food ...
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