Eastman Chemical Company announced a global price increase for automotive grade polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayers effective January 1, 2014 or as contracts allow. Price increase announcements for Saflex automotive PVB grades on a square ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
New polymers could allow for self-healing materials, the University of Pittsburgh recently reported. Materials manufactured from the new composites can regenerate themselves when damaged. Results of the Pitt research were recently ...
Tags: medical plastics, health
When it comes to best places to work in the medical device industry, Stryker and Johnson & Johnson score well in online rankings. But are there even better medical device workplaces lurking out there? Stryker was the top pure-play medtech ...
The GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (acquired by UL Environment in 2011), The Sherwin-Williams Company, the Georgia chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, and the Chatham County (Georgia) School District conducted two demonstration ...
Organic waste from pigs on a farm in Leicestershire, UK, is helping to power an estimated 700 homes and reduce landfill waste by 18,000 tonnes each year. The pig waste, combined with other food waste, is being used to produce biogas ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The Munich-based WACKER Group has expanded the range of services which it provides at its Singapore Technical Center. With immediate effect, the service and R&D center in the Southeast Asian sales hub will provide technical support for ...
Global Bioenergies announces its decision to construct its second industrial pilot on the site of the Leuna refinery, close to Leipzig in Germany. This new pilot plant, to be supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and ...
Global supplier of pigment and chemical dispersions Chromaflo Technologies and integrated tinting specialist c Color's colorant business combine to create one of the leading independent global colorant system and pigment dispersion ...
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BASF launched the Master Builders Solutions brand in Russia, Turkey, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries – Saudi-Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – as well as Kazakhstan. The brand strengthens BASF's industry orientation: ...
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Dec. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CB&I (NYSE: CBI) announced today it has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $1 billion by Ingleside Ethylene LLC, a joint venture between Occidental Chemical Corporation ...
Dow Chzemical will shut the equivalent of about 800,000 mt/year of chlorine and caustic soda capacity in Texas and divest chlorine derivatives assets with a value of up to $5 billion, it said Monday. The divestment includes about 40 ...
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Polylactic Acid (PLA) is thermoplastic polyester derived from renewable feedstock such as corn starch, sugarcane, wheat, tapioca roots. PLA has wide application such as in Packaging, Textile, Agriculture, Transportation, Bio-Medical and ...
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With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF will increase its selling prices for the following products in Europe: 1,4 Butanediol (BDO) +50 Euro/mt Tetrahydrofuran (THF) +70 Euro/mt Polytetramethylene ether glycol ...
Tags: Butanediol, Derivatives
The Dow Chemical Company detailed the scope of a separation of a significant portion of its chlorine value chain. These assets are being carved out for future transactions, and represent up to $5 billion of total annual revenue, inclusive ...
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Industrial Profits from Principal Business Increased from January to October National Bureau of Statistics of China From January to October, the industrial profits of enterprises above designated size achieved 4,626.32 billion yuan, an ...
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