Next year, Coverings will celebrate its 25th Anniversary from April 29—May 2, 2014 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Coverings, the first U.S. tile and stone exposition and conference, was founded 25 years ago not only to ...
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API Director of Standards David Miller announced today the publication of a new oil and natural gas industry bulletin for well construction interface, the latest of several standards developed or strengthened as a result of post-Macondo ...
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With the foundation of the Regional Section North America and its merger with the Regional Section Mexico, German Water Partnership (GWP) expands its international activities to North America and concretely pushes ahead with initiations of ...
AAAA executive director Stuart Charity The Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (AAAA) has submitted to the Federal Government’s Productivity Commission Review into the auto industry that a constructive discussion about the ...
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Japan's steel export down by 1.5% year-on-year to 3.31 million tons year in October, according to the Japan Iron & Steel Federation's (JISF). It is mainly because of continuing strong domestic demand and slower exports to Thailand. The ...
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The CO2 EOR market is a well established sector of the oil and gas industry in the United States with the first commercial projects dating back to the early 1970s. The key enabler of this success has been the availability of a large volume ...
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Black & Veatch and Exterran Energy Solutions, L.P. (“Exterran”) are joining forces to reduce capital and operating costs, improve natural gas liquid product yields and enhance system flexibility for natural gas processors. The ...
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Petroleum Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh has called for the acceleration of work in developing South Pars gas field before the start of 2015, a senior official said. Ali-Akbar Shabanpour, managing-director of Pars Oil and Gas Company, ...
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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But experts also pointed out that the foundation for future stable growth needs to be further consolidated. "Although the manufacturing PMI has stablized after it rose for a fourth month, forces that drove up the index were not balanced ...
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A worker examines the gas supply system at a specialty steel plant in Dalian, Liaoning province. From January to October, large industrial enterprises' profits rose 13.7 percent year-on-year. Liu Debi Industrial companies saw their profits ...
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Tiny cars can’t literally afford to be prime innovators, but the Toyota i-Road is an exception to that rule. This ’1+1′ seat three-wheeler is a brilliant, and genuine, glimpse at the future of city motoring – or at ...
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BASF and the Petroleum Institute (PI) of Abu Dhabi intend to develop new processes for removing aggressive sulfur compounds from acid gases in a research collaboration. The two parties signed the agreement these days. The research ...
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is supporting the Toys for Tots campaign at the Carson Blimp Base in Gardena, Calif., by offering a chance to win a flight for five aboard the Spirit of America. No donation is required for entering the ...
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV joins a new generation of production vehicles embarking on an alternative-fuels crusade in the coming years. PHEV, which stands for Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicle, is essentially the next evolution of hybrid ...