The Northwest Europe MTBE factor, the relative price of MTBE to gasoline, fell Thursday to its lowest level since November 21, 2012 on weakened export demand and a switch in focus to non-oxygenated gasoline blends, according to industry ...
Tags: gasoline, MTBE, non-oxygenated gasoline
A coffeemaker embedded with Swarovski crystals seems a little over the countertop but maybe it takes a little bling to make an everyday appliance seem less prosaic. Fortunately, the Cuisinart Crystal coffeemaker had other attributes ...
Tags: coffeemaker, everyday appliance, coffee
Scrambling to plan the menu for a last-minute Super Bowl party? A blender could handle a lot of the meal prep, from pre-game pass-arounds to the post-game desserts. But it has to be the right machine. In our latest report on blenders, ...
Tags: Super Bowl party, party menus, Vitamix
In Consumer Reports' latest blender Ratings, featuring a dozen new models and a slightly revised scoring system, a $60 blender and one costing $450 are tied for first place, ahead of eleven other recommended models. We also reveal a number ...
In 2011, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas, growing by 7.7% between 2010 and 2011. That represented the largest volumetric increase in the world, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World ...
Tags: natural gas, Natural Resource, gas industry
The growing popularity of cooking blogs and shows has had an unintended consequence—more kitchen casualties. Knives, food processors and mandolines are common offenders but an immersion blender can deliver the unkindest cut of all, ...
Tags: cooking, kitchen casualties, food processors, mandolines
If a small appliance is on someone's holiday wish list, be sure to check the latest results from Consumer Reports' tests. Sales of these countertop wares have been robust, despite the down economy, which has kept manufacturers busy vying to ...
Tags: Small appliance, Blenders, Stand mixers, Toasters
One outcome of the prolonged housing slump has been that when consumers postponed renovating their kitchens and buying large appliances, manufacturers got busy redesigning small ones. The rosy results can be found in the housewares ...
Tags: appliances, housewares department, toaster, stand mixer
The dirty little secret of Black Friday is that many shoppers are out for themselves. And why not take advantage of the lower prices, especially if you have a remodeling project in the works. The home improvement stores are offering deep ...
Tags: Black Friday, home improvement stores, outdoor power, tools
In industries from mining and manufacturing to construction, transportation, and agriculture, the need to weigh or measure inputs, outputs, and applied force has grown in recent decades to improve production safety and control costs. ...
Tags: Designing Weighing Systems, weigh inputs, measure inputs
Kitchen lighting has come along way since the introduction of electricity, just over 100 years ago. Table lamps, pendants, accent lighting and ceiling lights have replaced candles, fireplaces and the warm hearth and the bright light of the ...
Tags: Kitchen lighting, Table lamps, pendants, accent lighting
PPG Automotive Refinish has supplemented its Ditzler Big Flake product line with seven brilliant new flakes. The addition brings to 13 the number of Ditzler Big Flake selections available. The popular flakes, intended for use with ...
Tags: Flake Line, Automotive Refinish, PPG
The Chinese government's latest move to combat tax evasion by imposing a consumption tax on MTBE and aromatics is likely to raise gasoline blending costs and make imports of finished gasoline relatively more cost-effective, industry sources ...
Tags: Tax on MTBE, Gasoline, aromatics
The Hillshire Brands, formerly Sara Lee, has completed the separation of its international coffee & tea business - DE Master Blenders 1753. Hillshire Brands, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker HSH, focuses on ...
It seems almost too absurd to be true, but in the land of leviathan government, where the layers of bureaucracy are so intertwined it is impossible to navigate them, comes the revelation that the U.S. government has now taken to fining ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil