Florida Tile celebrated the grand opening of its new 15,000-square-foot designer showroom concept and warehouse in Dallas with a VIP reception. Located at 9755 Clifford Drive (near Love Field airport), the Florida Tile facility is a ...
Tags: Tile, Construction, Decoration
Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) announced plans to again expand 2-EH capacity at its Longview, Texas, site. The expansion will increase capacity by approximately 20,000 metric tons per year. The company expects to complete the expansion ...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency today announced a joint initiative to improve access to clean water and wastewater infrastructure for U.S. communities along the Mexico border. This initiative is ...
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Oxea has started basic engineering for a 2-Ethylhexanol (2-EH) and a Propanol unit at its world-scale production plant at Bay City, Texas. Both units are scheduled to come on stream in late 2016. Key elements of the basic engineering work ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals
Market participants in Latin America are most likely to believe that polymer prices are going to decrease in the coming months, one of the main reasons the market is quite slow in countries such as Brazil, Peru and Colombia, sources said on ...
Tags: Polymer, polymer prices, Olefin
US crude production rose 68,000 b/d to 7.939 million b/d in January, its highest monthly tally since December 1988, when production was 7.942 million b/d, according to monthly US Energy Information Administration oil data released Friday. ...
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International automotive supplier Continental will launch production this month of short range radar sensors for advanced driver assistance systems at its plant in Seguin, Texas. Expanding our manufacturing capacity takes us a step closer ...
US Gulf Coast crude stocks climbed to their highest level on record in the week that ended Friday, hitting 200.3 million barrels, as growing pipeline capacity from Cushing, Oklahoma, sends barrels surging south, according to data released ...
Tags: Crude Stocks, pipeline capacity, refinery
US Representative Pete Olson, R-Texas, on Tuesday called for less federal regulation for oil and gas drilling, including allowing some drilling in national parks. Olson, who spoke at the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners ...
The BASF TOTAL Petrochemicals LCC (BTP) joint venture (60 percent BASF, 40 percent Total) announced the startup of a 10th furnace at its steam cracker facility in Port Arthur, Texas. The additional furnace improves feedstock flexibility, ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Houston, Texas-based Phillips 66 Company recently agreed to retire over 21 billion sulfur credits that could have been used in the production of gasoline, which could ...
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Howler Brothers, an outdoor apparel startup in Austin, Texas, has named former Yeti Cooler marketing chief Rick Wittenbraker as its chief marketing officer. ADVERTISEMENT "We have known Rick for a long time both as a friend and as a ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Apparel
Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE: EMN) recently announced an expansion of carboxylic acids capacity at its Longview, Texas, and Kingsport, Tennessee, facilities. The additional capacity is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of ...
The US extended the delivery window on its sale Friday of 5 million barrels of Strategic Petroleum Reserve sour crude to May 10 from the original April 1-30, according to an amendment to the sale posted on the SPR website. A second ...
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Feedstock issues and supply tightness have driven up North American prices for suspension PVC and solid polystyrene resin since Feb. 1. But a different feedstock and lower demand served to send regional prices for PET bottle resin down in ...
Tags: PVC, Polystyrene, vinyl chloride