The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Ohio State University, today released a risk assessment concluding that silica-based spent foundry sands from iron, steel ...
Tags: air quality, enhancing state, Construction
Today, EPA is taking action to protect consumers from new uses and imports of the harmful chemicals Toluene Diisocyanates (TDI). These chemicals are currently widely used in residual amounts in the production of polyurethanes and consumer ...
Tags: asthma, lung damage, harmful chemicals, Health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), has been fined $531,000 for alleged Clean Air Act violations at its chemical manufacturing plant in Deepwater, New Jersey. The EPA ...
Tags: Deepwater, skin cancer, Health
Kuwait-based Equate Petrochemical Company said it has successfully completed turnaround of its plants and also the first phase of the polyethylene plant debottlenecking project. As part of the exercise, all units were shutdown from ...
Tags: ethylene, polyethylene, ethylene glycol, Textile
New York-based investment company Gramercy Property Trust has acquired Alpha Packaging’s 211,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Overland, Missouri, for $11m. The property in the St. Louis County, which serves as ...
Tags: food, beverage, pharmaceutical industries, Agriculture
Graco Inc. has agreed to acquire the stock of Pennsylvania-based High Pressure Equipment (HiP) company for $160 million. The acquisition of HiP is subject to customary regulatory review and Graco expects to complete the transaction in the ...
RPM International Inc. reported a 10 percent increase in net income and an 8 percent increase in earnings per diluted share on flat sales for its fiscal 2015 second quarter ended November 30, 2014. Second-Quarter Results Net sales of ...
RadTech, the non-profit trade association for UV+EB technologies, has announced its board of directors for 2015. Peter Weissman of Quaker Chemical Corp. has assumed the RadTech presidency while Lisa Fine of Joules Angstrom UV Printing ...
Researchers at Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Semiconductors have achieved a 42% enhancement in light output from flip-chip indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by incorporating a photonic crystal ...
Tags: photonic crystal(PHC)structure, light-emitting diodes, Electrical
For many parents, the child is the little emperor in the home, that can be seen from the rising market of children's products,, the parents are more willing to give stationery to the children if they like.As long as the children like, you ...
Tags: ruler, pencil case, Office Supplies
Cardolite introduced a comprehensive line of cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL) based polyols for adhesives, coatings, foam and elastomer applications. Polyols derived from CNSL have unique qualities compared to widely known polyester and ...
Inhance Technologies LLC, formerly known as Fluoro-Seal International, L.P., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $59,000 civil penalty and spend a minimum of $180,000 on systems to recycle hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas, ...
Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company Royal DSM has reached an agreement with Cathay Investments for the sale of Euroresins. Subject to customary approvals and notifications, the transaction is expected to close in Q1 2015. Financial ...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Gerber Legendary Blades, a division of Fiskars Brands Inc., of Madison, Wis., has agreed to pay a $2.6 million civil penalty and abide by a permanent injunction. In a ...
Tags: mechanical hazard, federal law, Security
Researchers in Germany have developed gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon carbide (SiC) layers on silicon wafers [Wael Jatal et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 11 December 2014]. ...
Tags: Cubic Silicon Carbide, Electrical