A team of six recent college graduates has come up with an innovative way to prevent functional finish chemistries from entering the environment by using tons of US Army textiles destined for landfills to make high end bags. Led by the ...
Tags: Military Textiles, High-End Bags
Limited availability of coaster butane cargoes in Northwest Europe is supporting spot prices, industry sources said. In the summer, surplus butane from refineries in Northwest Europe is usually exported as coaster cargoes, which are ...
Tags: Chemicals
Global multiline property and casualty insurer the ACE Group has expanded critical catastrophe limits to $30m, throughout all its North American retail and wholesale broker-distributed commercial property lines of business. The company ...
SoloPower Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) photovoltaic (PV) cells and lightweight flexible solar modules using a proprietary roll-to-roll electro-deposition process, says that an ...
Tags: SoloPower CIGS, Electrical, Electronics
Many industries use modular tanks in order to handle hazardous substances that can harm the air, water, and land and the living things in them. The modular tanks collect the perilous substances, such as chemicals, excess oil, or nuclear ...
In the first half of 2013, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the Central Party Committee and the State Council have committed to the general tone of making progress while ensuring the ...
US commercial crude stocks fell 9.87 million barrels to 373.92 million barrels for the reporting week ended July 5, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. The latest decline marks the sharpest two-week draw in US crude ...
Tags: Crude Stocks, Crude imports
The utilization of surplus naphtha capacity is a key driver of Indian petrochemical sector, according to a top official with the Indian Oil Corporation. The utilization of surplus naphtha and stranded propylene from refineries, as well as ...
Tags: Naphtha, Petrochemical Sector
THE Australian dollar is higher after bouncing back from losses caused by weaker than expected Chinese trade figures. At 5pm, the local unit was trading at 91.96 US cents, up from 91.83 cents yesterday. LTG Goldrock director Andrew ...
Tags: economy
The UK's leading designer and manufacturer of surplus PV energy controllers will be discussing the future of sustainability at this month's Energy Storage UK exhibition. Robin Whitehead, Sales Manager at 4Eco-immerSUN, will be a keynote ...
Tags: Energy, green energy
In the first half of the current year, China's total external trade value amounted to $1.99769 trillion, increasing by 8.6 percent year on year, according to the figures released by China's General Administration of Customs. In ...
Tags: Mineral, external trade
Chinese exports declined 3.1% year-on-year in June, while imports fell 0.7%, missing expectations of respective increases of 4% and 8%, Reuters reported. The month marked the first decline in exports since January 2012. Export growth is ...
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July 4,2013-Manitoba Hydro will be seeking public input in planning a route for a new transmission line in southeastern Manitoba called the Manitoba-Minnesota Transmission Project.The public engagement process will help identify and refine ...
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It’s reported that Korea’s trade balance showed a surplus of US$19.6 billion in the first half of this year, posting a slight rise in exports in spite of weak external conditions, according to report released by the Export and ...
Tags: Mineral, Metallurgy
According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MOTIE), the country's trade balance indicated a $19.6 billion surplus in the first half of this year, posting a slight increase ...
Tags: Steel, Mineral, South Korea