The company has considered the recent turbulence in its raw material supply chain and concluded that a rise in packaging prices is inevitable in the face of current sharp cost increases. Bart Stubbe, director of purchasing at Linpac, ...
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Wacker Chemie AG has started up a new specialty monomer plant with a yearly capacity of 3,800 metric tons at its Burghausen facility in Germany. "The specialty monomers; vinyl neodecanoate and vinyl laurate are key raw materials in the ...
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Indian food safety regulators have filed a lawsuit against Nestle India for selling Maggi noodles in the country with unsafe levels of lead. The complaint was filed at a local court in the state of Uttar Pradesh after the local Food ...
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China's manufacturing business activity continued improving in May, with an important index remaining in expansion territory, official data showed on Monday. The manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI), a key measure of factory ...
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Clariant has created the complete toolbox for formulators to design hot melts with superior performance for any need, using sustainable processing. It features Clariant’s acclaimed Licocene metallocene-based systems and formulating ...
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German eco-business firms Zelfo Technology and Upgrading have teamed up to introduce an up-cycled packaging material based on wheat straw for the food industry. The Micro and Nano Fibrillated Cellulose (M/NFC) packaging solution ...
Kewal Kiran Clothing, a marketer of Killer, Lawman and Easies denim and apparel brands, reported an 18 per cent year on year surge in net sales for the fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2015. In a BSE filing, the Kewalchand Jain led ...
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Clariant will participate in Chinaplas 2015, the largest plastics and rubber trade fair in Asia, with its special feature on sustainability-driven products and solutions dedicated to growing needs in the plastic industry for sustainable ...
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With the new short-chain fatty alcohol n-Nonanol, chemical company Oxea is further expanding its large portfolio of higher alcohols. Due to its almost completely linear structure, n-Nonanol is a potent and cost-effective alternative to ...
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Cotton Council International (CCI), which works in conjunction with the National Cotton Council to promote US cotton exports, is all set to launch its 25-year old flagship brand COTTON USA in India. Under COTTON USA brand, CCI ...
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Costs - related to areas like more efficient manufacturing processes, applications, use of energy and logistics – were a major focus of attention at the European Coatings Show (ECS) in Nuremberg, Germany, in April. The three-day ...
All India pressing figures till April 30, 2015 are approximately 336 lakh bales, while all India arrivals have dropped to approximately 40,000 bales per day. CCI has sold 6.68 lakh bales through e-auctions out of their procured stock of ...
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After an initial testing period of three months on its Eila milk brand, Finnish dairy product market leader Valio has announced its approval of the fully-renewable Tetra Rex Bio-based carton for its Valio Luomu organic milk and sour milk ...
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TreeHouse Foods has recorded first quarter earnings of $0.41 per fully diluted share when compared to $0.38 per fully diluted share reported for the first quarter of 2014. The Company reported adjusted earnings per share in the first ...
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Lower capacity utilisation drove down operating earnings by 23 per cent year over year at the fibre division of Eastman Chemical in the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. “First quarter of 2015 operating earnings dived to $90 ...