Production run rates at Borealis' propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Belgium will remain halved until the end of the year, the company said Friday. The PDH plant, located in Kallo near Antwerp, produces around 480,000 mt/year of ...
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The textile industry is considered the biggest consumer of water among all industrial sectors and also one of the worst polluters. Among the various processing sectors of the textile industry, the dyeing and printing sector is the largest ...
Tags: Textile chemical, machinery firms, textile market, textile industry
Schoeller-Bleckmann Medizintechnik (SBM), a subsidiary of Bosch Packaging Technology has unveiled the new sterilizer ADV for vacuum sterilization of porous loads, as well as for sterilization of liquids according to the steam/air mixture ...
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Aseptic form fill seal machinery supplier BencoPack has installed a new fully aseptic line furnished with an Integrated Sleeve Applicator (ISA) for the packaging of Italian beverage company Fonti di Vinadio’s new ice-tea range of ...
Tags: BencoPack, aseptic line, ISA, packaging
Axon, a Pro Mach brand is all set to introduce a Category 3 safety-interlock system for the ThermoPoint steam heat tunnel. The system ensures that a ‘door open’ condition stops the flow of live steam in the tunnel immediately ...
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Investment AB Kinnevik has received regulatory approval for its previously announced agreement to sell its Korsnas packaging operations to Billerud for SEK2.7bn ($406m), to form a merged group called BillerudKorsnas. According to the ...
Tags: investment, paper machine, white kraft, sack paper
Japan’s imports of naphtha, a key raw material for production of ethylene used in the textile industry, grew by 5.3 percent month-on-month in October to 1.183 million tons, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Economy, ...
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Canadian sterilization pouch manufacturer GS Medical Packaging has integrated Class 4 Indicators into its sterilization pouches. GS Medical Packaging general manager John Sherlock said the company's plant is equipped with new technology ...
Tags: Medical Packaging, Steam Indicators, Pouches
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,17 commodities increased in prices, 26 fell and 57 remained unchanged on 28/11/2012.The largest rises were Soybean meal (1.29%),Nickel (0.90%),Benzene (0.40%),while the ...
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Sonoco-Alcore, the wholly owned subsidiary of global packaging company, Sonoco, will invest to make its system and product range energy efficient which is expected to be accomplished by September 2011. To acheive its goals, the company is ...
Tags: System Energy Efficient, electricity consumption, energy costs
The Hydraulic Institute (HI), under the approval of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is seeking qualified individuals to participate in the review process of three standards to be placed into stabilized maintenance. ...
One of the most readily-available and viable solutions to help address the challenge of our growing energy needs is Energy-from-Waste(EfW)–which has the potential to take a multitude of waste streams(such as municipal solid waste)and ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,16 commodities increased in prices, 24 fell and 60 remained unchanged on 29/11/2012.The largest rises were Potassium chloride (0.56%),Xylene (0.54%),Wheat (0.45%),while the ...
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Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines plans to use biomass fuel in its operations to reduce the bottling plants’ carbon emissions and other environment hazards. The company is widening its sources for renewable energy at all its facilities ...
Germany-based plastics processing machinery specialist, Krauss Maffei said it has provided a cost-effective spin-platen injection molding solution to Rowenta-Werke's production line in France. Rowenta wanted a solution for a new steam ...