Global packaging technologies supplier Romaco has announced the extension of its Macofar brand’s LF 200 product family. The new Macofar LF 200 FD, used for filling of pharmaceutical sprays, nose and ear drops, has a maximum output ...
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Silicon Labs is sampling a digital radio-on-a-chip which supports FD, HD Radio and DAB/DAB+. James Stansberry, vp and GM of Silicon Labs' broadcast products group told the Globalpress Summit meeting in Sant Cruz yesterday that the chip ...
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LyondellBasell has settled its April Northwest European styrene monomer contract price at Eur1,413/metric ton ($1,837/mt) FCA Rotterdam, one of the company's customers confirmed Friday. LyondellBasell wasn't immediately available Friday ...
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The April European contract price for paraxylene has been fully settled at Eur1,120/mt ($1,467/mt) FD NWE, Eur130/mt lower than March's ECP, sources confirmed Thursday. The ECP was initially settled on Wednesday by seller Shell and buyer ...
The Northwest Europe forward delivered spot PVC price has dropped on week, reflecting a sharp fall in the April ethylene contract price and poor demand, market sources said Tuesday. Ethylene -- made from oil or natural gas which is ...
US polymer-grade propylene contracts for April were reportedly starting to settle down 10 cents at 63 cents/lb delivered, one major buyer and two trader sources said Monday. Negotiations were not finalized and another major buyer reported ...
European naphtha prices have come under pressure from run cuts in the polyolefin chain as well as falling crude prices, with ICE Brent futures sinking to an eight-month low Friday, sources said. CIF NWE naphtha was assessed at $846.50/mt ...
Tags: polyethylene market, polyethylene
The number of global subscribers to 4G LTE mobile broadband technology is set to double over the next two years, rising from 105 million this year to nearly 220 million in 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Deployments ...
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan has approved Acofide tablets 100mg (acotiamide hydrochloride hydrate), jointly developed by Zeria Pharmaceutical and Astellas Pharma, for the treatment of functional dyspepsia (FD). New ...
Tags: Health, medication, Pharmaceutical
An initial NWE contract for April-delivered butadiene was fully settled Tuesday at Eur1,415/mt FD NWE ($1,821/mt FD), following confirmation from four producers and two consumers involved in the negotiations. A spokesman for SABIC Europe ...
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European mixed xylene prices were under downward pressure from the sharp correction in Asian and US mixed xylenes prices. Market sources said European isomer-mixed xylenes were trading at $1,290/mt FOB ARA, down $10 from Platts' March 15 ...
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA) has announced the support of its FD-Series Spectrodensitometers by CyberChrome’s OnColor Color QC and Color Matching Software. Released in 2011 the FD-Series Spectrodensitometers were the ...
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Buyers of polyethylene terephthalate in Europe are reluctant to build inventories as they expect PET prices to decline in April, market sources said this week. These expectations are being driven by weaker upstream markets, as contract ...
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Most US ethylene margins rose late last week despite higher feedstock costs as some production issues helped push up ethylene spot prices, Platts data showed late Friday. US spot ethylene moved up 2.25 cents/lb week on week, to be ...
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Uncertainty over feedstock prices is putting a block on upward momentum in the European polyethylene terephthalate market, market sources said. Prices have been marching upwards recently as producers pushed through higher feedstock prices ...