Cotton growers around the world spent an average of 11 cents on planting seed to produce a kilogram of lint in 2012/13, representing 7% of the net cost of production. (Net costs are total costs excluding land rent and the value of ...
It is now more than 400 years since the first recorded printed labels were being produced. At that time they would have been printed on hand-made paper using relief letterpress type or images cut into wood or metal, with impression pressure ...
Tags: Label Printing, Packaging, Printing
They say it takes a village to raise a child. PMMI members in Milwaukee and Minneapolis would put it another way: "It takes an industry to raise a workforce." PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, has launched ...
ShawCor Ltd. has appointed Steve Orr as president of ShawCor Ltd. William P. Buckley, formerly president and CEO, will continue as CEO. The company says these changes are part of ShawCor's ongoing management succession plan. Reporting to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, gas
Pemex-Gas and Chihuahua Gas, the subsidiary of Petroquimica Basica said that Tubacero in Mexico would supply the steel pipe to Los Ramones for the first stage of natural gas pipeline project. It is said that the requirement of pipe for the ...
Tags: Steel Pipe, Construction
Zhejiang Province-based Chinese pipe producer Kingland Pipeline and Technologies Co. (Kingland Pipeline) has announced that it has increased its net profit for the first half of the current year by 26.17 percent year-on-year to RMB 62.689 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel Pipe
Shell's recent announcement that it is seeking additional feedstock supplies for its proposed western Pennsylvania petrochemical facility is only one major roadblock that the facility needs to circumvent in the next few years, a Platts ...
Shell Chemical has begun taking bids to secure ethane from Marcellus Shale operators for its proposed world-class petrochemical plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the company said Tuesday. Shell is accepting bids for feedstock from ...
Tags: Shell Chemical, Ethane Feedstock
Chihuahua Gas, a subsidiary of Pemex-Gas and Petroquímica Básica, said that the Mexican company Tubacero will provide the pipe for the construction of the first phase of the gas pipeline Los Ramones. Tubacero will manage the ...
Tags: Chihuahua Gas, Pipe
PetroChina Co Ltd, the nation's leading oil and natural gas producer, said on Thursday it expects a 20-billion-yuan ($3.3 billion) annual profit boost from the government's natural gas price reform. That inflow will further buoy the ...
Tags: PetroChina, natural gas producer
The estimated weekly production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant jumped 1.98 cents, or 3.39%, this week to a 15-week high of 60.43 cents/gal, according to a Platts estimate based on a Friday review of data. This was ...
Tags: Estimated Ethanol, Chemicals
Biotechnology company Amgen has reached a deal to buy all outstanding shares of California-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals for $125 per share in cash. The purchase price of the transaction that is expected to be closed by the beginning of ...
Tags: Amgen, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
AliveCor, a US-based digital health company, introduced a new feature for its AliveCor heart monitor, a mobile device-based electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor for the iPhone 4, 4S, and 5 that is used to record, display, store and transfer ...
Tags: AliveCor, Heart Monitor
A few days ago, the remarkable China Burma natural gas pipeline project (Burmese section) was finished and ventilated, and the employees of Bayi Steel felt so proud of it when hearing this, because the products manufactured by Bayi Pipeline ...
Tags: steel, Gas Pipeline
US Gulf Coast jet fuel reached its highest level since April 2 on Tuesday, continuing a run-up on factors including reaction to a federal lawsuit seeking to block a merger of American Airlines and US Airways. Platts assessed Gulf Coast ...