UK-based retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced plans to roll out new packaging, which will extend the fruit life stored in the fridge by up to two days. According to the retail giant, M&S will consider adding the innovative strips to ...
Tags: fruit packaging, food waste, fruit life
INEOS Europe AG has announced that it has completed supply and infrastructure agreements that will secure a significant volume of ethane feedstock from the US, for use in its European cracker complexes. The company has agreed to a long ...
Dexmet Corporation, the manufacturer of precision expanded metals, foils and polymers, has added a high performance polymer to its PolyGrid® portfolio. According to Dexmet, this was driven by the need to provide solutions for ...
Tags: precision expanded metals, foils, polymers, filtration
European AIP Competence Platform, involved in research of new packaging materials and techniques, has developed an online database of current active and intelligent packaging materials. The AIP Competence Platform enables SMEs to ...
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The Peninsula reported that the Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Petrochemical Company joint venture project in Ras Laffan Industry City is scheduled for completion in 2018. With the launch of the USD 7 billion project, Qatar would emerge as one ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,16 commodities increased in prices, 24 fell and 60 remained unchanged on 29/11/2012.The largest rises were Potassium chloride (0.56%),Xylene (0.54%),Wheat (0.45%),while the ...
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Wacker in Germany has developed a vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers (VAE)-based dispersion suited for bonding various surfaces in the paper and packaging industry, specifically. The new VINNAPAS EP 8010 with good heat resistance, ...
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Korea Petrochemical Industry Company (KPIC) is operating its Onsan naphtha cracker at full capacity rates, a company official said. Refuting media reports which mentioned that KPIC had reduced the operating rates to 75 percent, the ...
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November 19, 2012 -- Markets Research Reports “Specialty Oilfield Chemicals Market by Types, Applications, Trends & Global Forecasts (2011 - 2016)”defines and segments the global specialty oilfield chemicals market with analysis ...
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South Korea's largest ethylene producer, Yeochun Naphtha Cracking Center, said Thursday its net profit dropped 40% year on year to Won 144.7 billion ($133.5 million) for the first nine months of the year, compared with Won 241.3 billion a ...
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US steam cracker margins showed minor increase against lower feedstock costs in a shortened holiday week,as US markets were closed for celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. Platts'close of assessment for the week was at 12:30 p.m.CST ...
Tags: steam cracker margins, Ethane-based ethylene margins, data, price
Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co. Ltd decided to diversify its business portfolio by entering Purified-EO and EG business which has never been produced in Ulsan. The plan of this project is to invest 200,000,000,000 korean Won to build a plant ...
Tags: Korea Petrochemical, EO, EG, Chemical
Shell announced that it has taken a final investment decision to 'debottleneck' its Singapore ethylene cracker on Pulau Bukom (Bukom Island). This is expected to increase the capacity of olefins and aromatics by more than 20 per cent. ...
Tags: Shell, ethylene, ethylene cracker, olefins, aromatics
Toyo Engineering Korea Limited, a Korean subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corporation, has been awarded a contract to build Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Ethylene Glycol (EG) plant with the capacity of EO 80,000 t/y and EG 205,000 t/y planned by ...
Tags: Toyo Engineering Korea Limited, Ethylene Oxide, Ethylene Glycol
Westlake Chemical Corporation reported net income for the three months ended September 30, 2012 of $87.0 million, or $1.30 per diluted share, on sales of $821.2 million. This represents an increase in net income of $19.1 million from the ...
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