Westlake Chemical Corporation announced it is converting the feedstock for its Calvert City, Kentucky ethylene plant from propane to ethane along with increasing ethylene capacity from 450 million pounds per year to 630 million pounds per ...
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BWA Water Additives has been a major supplier of water treatment additives for almost 40 years. The company’s antiscalant additives are now playing a vital role in keeping reverse osmosis systems working efficiently in desalination ...
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Modern Water plc, the owner of leading water technologies for the production of fresh water and monitoring of water quality, has signed a Framework Agreement with Hangzhou Development Center of Water Treatment Technology, Company Limited in ...
Seven employees at Sun Chemical's US Ink Plant,located in East Rutherford NJ,were transported to Hackensack University Medical Center following what appears to have been an explosion or flash fire in the pre-mix room of the plant at ...
The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month.Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager at Verbatim,describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes(LEDs)have become an ...
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A little heralded change to China's crude import rules may have a much greater impact on Asia's fuel oil market next year further depressing margins for the residue. Industry sources said that China National Chemical Corporation may be ...
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CB&I announced that it has been awarded contracts by Occidental Chemical Corporation for the technology license, basic engineering and front end engineering and design (FEED) services for a proposed new ethane cracker. The proposed cracker ...
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Westlake Chemical Corporation announced that it will perform planned maintenance and an expansion of the Petro 2 ethylene unit at its complex in Lake Charles, LA in the first quarter of 2013. This expansion will increase ethane-based ...
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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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It is 50 years since laser scientist Dr Nick Holonyak and his team of researchers at General Electric made the breakthrough with a new type of alloy that allowed them to create the first practical, visible-spectrum LED and paved the way for ...
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Industry Analyst firm NanoMarkets issued a new report on the OLED lighting materials market: OLED Lighting Materials Market Forecast 2013. The firm projects that the OLED lighting materials market will surpass $1.3 billion in revenues in ...
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Career Industry Corp.is one of Taiwan's major suppliers and coordinators of paper-tube making equipment with sales and technical services spreading all over the world.The company has been engaged in this business for over 20 years. The ...
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Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit in Korea against Intematix and a distributor, over red phosphors. Intematix plans a counter-suit. Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC), the Tokyo, Japan-based ...
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