Axiall Corporation and Lotte Chemical of the Republic of Korea announced that they have signed a Heads of Agreement to pursue a 50/50 joint venture arrangement for the design, construction and operation of a proposed 1 million metric ...
Tags: Ethane Cracker, Textile
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced that it has signed an agreement to divest the Water Treatment business in Africa to AECI, domiciled in South Africa. The total consideration of the sale amounts to CHF 34 million in ...
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Nigerian Petroleum Development Co., the upstream arm of state oil company NNPC, Monday announced a $5.2 billion, four-year investment plan aimed at raising oil production to 300,000 b/d mainly from assets acquired from foreign oil companies ...
Tags: Oil Output, Metallurgy
British transport companies Eddie Stobart and A.W.Jenkinson Forest Products have ordered 1,500 Scania Euro 6 trucks in the largest single order for vehicles to date in the UK. The order,which will be filled over two years,follows a ...
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Several automotive glass companies have been ranked on Entrepreneur magazine's 35th Annual Franchise 500.The top 500 companies were determined based on financial and statistical data from July 2011 through July 2013. Novus Glass came ...
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Post Holdings has completed the takeover of Golden Boy Foods and Dymatize Enterprises in two separate transactions. The acquisitions are in line with the company's efforts to expand into the private label and active nutrition segments. ...
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Physio-Control has announced a merger agreement with Sansio, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for the emergency medical services (EMS) and home healthcare markets, to expand data solutions portfolio. Through this ...
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Polymer Group, Inc. (PGI) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Companhia Providencia Industria e Comercio [Bovespa: PRVI3] ("Providencia"), a Brazilian manufacturer of nonwovens used ...
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Sharp has signed an agreement with Serm Sang Palang Ngan(SSP)of Thailand to construct a 52MW solar power generation plant.Construction will begin in January,with operations scheduled to start by the end of 2014. The plant will be ...
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The Government of Ghana is committed to protect the country’s textile industry and it would take decisions as and when necessary for the purpose, Haruna Iddrissu, Minister of Trade and Industry has said. Speaking at a ...
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Russia's state-owned Rosneft and China National Petroleum Corporation are in talks over upstream co-operation in Russia, including the Arctic and Far Eastern territories, and could reach concrete agreements by May, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin ...
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London-listed Altona Energy has signed a new memorandum of understanding securing investment to help develop its Arckaringa coal-to-liquids project in South Australia, after terminating a previous joint venture with China National Offshore ...
The exports of petrochemicals from GCC countries of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE is expected to increase, once the Bali Package is ratified by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) General Council later this year, ...
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The Myelin Repair Foundation (MRF) today announced it has entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess MRF-008, as a potential therapeutic for multiple sclerosis ...
Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Sclerosis, Myelin
This morning represents yet another frigid day in the Arctic saga of the winter of 2014. Yesterday, an intense Arctic cold front plunged south from Canada, dropping temperatures as much as 40 degrees across the Midwest and Plains, ...
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