HB Fuller has entered into an agreement to purchase Brazil-based chemical polyurethane specialties and polyester resins provider Plexbond Quimica, for an undisclosed value. According to HB Fuller, the business generated nearly $20m in ...
Tags: HB Fuller, Adhesives Company
Specialty packaging producer UFP Technologies is all set to exhibit its packaging solutions at the OrthoTec 2013 taking place from 5-6 June in Winona Lake (Warsaw), Indiana. For the medical device industry, the company will introduce ...
Linpac Packaging has developed a new range of hinged bakery boxes, the LeanBake range for morning goods. The range consists of hermetic (airtight) as well as semi-hermetic boxes. The LeanBake containers are suitable for croissants, Danish ...
China’s government officials began the year with assurances to the world that 2013 would mark a new era of food safety. The bureaucrats were still patting each other on the back, when in March, a flotilla of 16,000 dead hogs bobbed ...
Tags: Food Safety, China
Oil futures closed out the week in higher territory Friday, boosted by a strong equities performance even as the US Dollar Index climbed to a 34-month high. NYMEX June crude settled 86 cents higher at $96.02/b, after ranging from a low of ...
Tags: Oil Futures, Strong Equities
Saudi-based Yanbu Cement Co has signed an agreement with the Ports Authority (PA) to import clinker into the kingdom, Arab News has reported. The deal is part of a government initiative to import 10 million tonnes of cement in the next ...
Tags: Construction, Cement
Sweet North Sea crude values have begun rebounding as European crude oil traders begin to take note of improving sweet refining margins, the first time in over a month that sweet margins have performed better than sour, traders said Monday. ...
Tags: Sweet North Sea, Margins
Total 2012 marketed natural gas volumes in the US are roughly flat with 2011 levels, according to a Platts analysis of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Form 552 data. As of Friday, gas marketers reported 125,723 trillion Btu of ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Chemicals
Wood Mackenzie expects resource sector investment in Australia to peak in 2013 at A$85 billion ($82.6 billion), dominated by spending in gas, followed by iron ore and coal, and to remain at high levels for the next three years, according to ...
The best you can hope for when shopping for a riding mower is a solidly built, top-performing machine that doesn't leave you feeling clipped on the price. This year, in fact, we have two such models in our lawn tractor tests—a pair of ...
Participants in the biggest Asian coal conference in Bali, Indonesia, in the first week of June will be eying whether China will continue to remain relatively passive in importing thermal coal, industry sources said Monday. Participants ...
Tags: thermal coal, Coaltrans Asia
Methanol exports for March were up 47% from February while methanol production was down 5.2% from March to February, according to data the Ministry of Energy Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago released Monday. During March, 540,361 mt of ...
Tags: Trinidad Methanol, Chemicals
Verder International received the 2012 European Air-Operated Diaphragm Pumps Product Differentiation Excellence Award from Frost & Sullivan at the Guoman Cumberland Hotel, London. Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognises ...
Premia Foods, a leading producer of ice cream in Baltic, has upgraded production equipment at its ice cream facility in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of its efforts to improve efficiency of the factory. The company has invested €750,000 ...
Tags: Premia Foods, Ice Cream Facility
Acorda Therapeutics has obtained additional US patent for ampyra covering a range of dosage strengths. Ampyra, referred to as fampridine in some countries outside the US, is indicated for the treatment to improve walking in patients with ...