The Coatings Industry is playing its part in helping meet the UK Government’s ambition to double export receipts to £1 trillion by 2020. Figures from the latest Building Materials & Components Report published by the Department ...
Tags: Coatings Industry, Coatings, Paints
Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
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The top ten companies in the air and water monitoring market had 2012 revenues of $4.4 billion representing 21 percent of the $21 billion market. This ranking analysis has just been posted to the McIlvaine report, Air & Water Pollution ...
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On Thursday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea. This is the 18th administrative review of ...
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Glass for Europe is the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass. Flat glass is the material that goes into a variety of end products and primarily in windows and facades for buildings, windscreens and windows for ...
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The news came from the Environment Agency, which revealed yesterday that five companies, who were not named, had “been identified as not meeting their obligations” under the PRN and PERN systems. “The relevant agencies are ...
Tags: Five Companies, Investigation, UK Recycling, 2012
India’s Supreme Court has declined to alter its decision of changing Sistema‘s mobile licences for its mobile services joint venture, it was reported last week. The joint venture of the Russian conglomerate was one of several ...
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The European Commission is currently reviewing the existing regulatory framework on food contact materials, in particular Directive 84/500/EEC for ceramic articles. Among the discussed features of this revision are: the extension of the ...
Tags: Glass, ceramic articles, glass materials
Among the nearly 800 exhibitors at ProMat are five companies making their debut at the event. Although trade shows in general have drawn lower attendance and exhibitor numbers over the past few years of the recession, many of these new ...
Glass for Europe releases new evidences of glazing benefits to sustainable buildings. The latter were gathered by David Strong Consulting in a recent study on the distinctive benefits of glazing, which highlights the socio-economic ...
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Glass for Europe is the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass. Flat glass is the material that goes into a variety of end-products and primarily in windows and façades for buildings, windscreens and windows ...
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German state rail operator Deutsche Bahn has filed a lawsuit seeking a reported EUR 750 million in damages against four steel track suppliers that have already been fined by the regulator for fixing prices on track orders. The companies ...
Tags: steel cartel, steel, steel track, steel producer
Comparisons are useful in evaluating a company, but in the rare earth market, it's not as simple as a spreadsheet. With so many variables in the mix, no two projects are exactly alike, and each has its relative strengths and weaknesses. But ...
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The rare earths business isn't unlike a Formula One race, according to Carolyn Dennis, vice-president and senior analyst with Dundee Capital Markets. Companies are speeding to reach production and find strategic partners to grease the ...
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NWI Times reported that BP is suing five companies associated with a fireproofing material used in its multibillion dollar modernization project at the Whiting Refinery, claiming the product is defective and causing property damage, federal ...
Tags: steel fabricating, structural steel, bp gas stations, lawsuits against bp