September 2013 — For 100 years, Heytex has stood for leading quality and the most comprehensive product portfolio of technical textiles and fabrics of all suppliers on the world market. On the US market, Heytex has been successfully ...
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Composite Fluid Transfer LLC — a Kilgore, Texas-based manufacturer of fluid transfer piping systems — has won a JEC Americas 2013 Innovation Award in the Pipes & Water Management category for its Fiberflex?-11 composite pressure ...
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European linear low density polyethylene C4 contract prices logged a Eur20/mt ($26.50/mt) gain on the week to touch a four-and-a-half month high of Eur1,450-1,455/mt FD Northwest Europe, buoyed by tight supplies and oil price spike, sources ...
Tags: LLDPE, Chemicals, polyethylene
Shell's recent announcement that it is seeking additional feedstock supplies for its proposed western Pennsylvania petrochemical facility is only one major roadblock that the facility needs to circumvent in the next few years, a Platts ...
The Molson Amphitheatre. It is Tuesday. Alice in Chains is going to play. The crowd is predominantly male and dressed in rags, quite the zoo actually. When I was at my last rock concert 10 years back, I was dressed up like them: black ...
Tags: Outdoor Furniture, Furniture, Furnishing
Medical device company LDR has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for commercial sale and distribution of its Mobi-C Cervical Disc (Mobi-C), for two-level indications in the US. The Mobi-C is designed for ...
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Argentina's petrochemicals industry is unlikely to expand until more natural gas and related feedstock supplies become available when the potential of the country's shale gas plays is turned into production in a decade or so, an analyst ...
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As part of its focused investment strategy on the U.S. Gulf Coast to integrate advantaged shale gas, The Dow Chemical Company confirmed the locations for expanding four of the Company’s leading brand franchises in Texas and Louisiana. ...
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The Dow Chemical Company is all set to expand four of its plastic franchises in Texas and Louisiana, as part of its investment strategy on the US Gulf Coast to integrate advantaged shale gas. The company will expand its High Melt Index ...
DSM Animal Nutrition & Health has announced the launch of its new 100% recyclable low-density linear polyethylene (LDPE) bags. Claimed to be durable, the white-tinted bags also provide protection from air and sunlight. Bag damage during ...
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Polyethylene producers are targeting higher prices in September amid increases in feedstock naphtha and improved economic data, sources said this week. Naphtha was assessed at $914.5/mt CIF NWE Wednesday, up $2.50 on the week. The average ...
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Flexible packaging and labeling solutions supplier Bemis Performance Packaging has announced the launch of Bemis TITAN brand beverage shrink films and shrink labels. The new films and labels have been designed to improve quality and brand ...
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Packaging successful adoption that contains recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) depends on minimizing contamination of the recyclate from caps, labels, inks adhesives and other sources in US. The first commercial product using the ...
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In results published today (27 August), the Greenock-based polythene manufacturer said that operating profits increased 14% to 16.4m. Chairman Cameron McLatchie said: "The improvement in operating profits can be attributed to another ...
Air France-KLM will further cut tonnes from its annual aircraft carbon dioxide emissions, simply by using revolutionary new lightweight cargo nets that it is now introducing. Just one new lightweight net with Dyneema? will save Air ...