DuPont Titanium Technologies announced a new distribution agreement with Omya, Inc. Omya, through its subsidiary companies Durr Marketing Associates, Azalea Color Company and Lipscomb Chemical Company, will become a national distributor and ...
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University of East Anglia scientists have undertaken an £800,000 research project to artificially replicate photosynthesis - the process by which plants transform sunlight into energy to help them grow. The energy created will be ...
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Environmental reviews of TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL pipeline have so far ignored the pollution potential of petroleum coke, a byproduct of the diluted bitumen that would get carried by the system, a group opposed to fossil ...
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The Indian textile industry, the single largest employment provider, employing over 91 million people particularly the rural masses and women and the backbone of country's economy has been passing through a worst crisis in its history ...
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BP on Wednesday raised its estimate of global energy demand in 2030 and predicted that shale natural gas, tight oil and biofuels will play an increasingly important role in meeting the world's energy needs. World energy demand will ...
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The full US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday said it would not reconsider an August decision by a three-judge panel of the court that tossed out a key challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's ...
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G2X Energy will this week finalize an option to lease land needed to build a $1.3 billion natural gas-to-gasoline facility at The Port of Lake Charles in Southwest Louisiana, Louisiana Economic Development said Tuesday. The lease is ...
In December, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.5 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.5 percent in cities and 2.5 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 4.2 percent, while the non-food prices ...
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Despite record low temperatures in China, the country's gas companies say they expect to be able to cope with increased winter gas demand in the coming weeks. Sinopec said Tuesday on its website that it had been implementing several ...
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US demand for liquid fuels will rise slowly over the next two years to 18.77 million b/d in 2014, driven by distillate and liquid petroleum gas consumption from a recovering industrial sector, the Energy Information Administration said ...
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New York City-based private equity firm SK Capital Partners, in partnership with global investment firm First Reserve Corp., has acquired TPC Group Inc. — a Houston-based producer of value-added products derived from niche ...
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Bloomberg reported that the USD 1.1 billion purchase of a stake in ArcelorMittal Canadian iron ore unit by China Steel Corporation and POSCO increased interest in Canada’s ability to meet Asian demand for the steelmaking raw material. ...
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Scientists funded by Cancer Research UK are using virtual experiments in a bid to find the best methods for drug discovery. The findings have been published in the Nature Reviews Drug Discovery journal, with the work combining a unique ...
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Worthington Industries,Inc reported net sales of USD 622.6 million and net earnings of USD 31.8 million,or USD 0.45 per share,for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended November 30,2012.In the second quarter of the prior year,the Company ...
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ExxonMobil has commenced startup operations at one of the world’s largest ethylene steam crackers, the centerpiece of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project at its Singapore petrochemical complex. The expansion, ...
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