North American manufacturer of bottles and jars Alpha Packaging has launched a new line of stock blow molded high density polyethylene (HDPE) bottles for the pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement industries. According to the company, ...
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MNA provides tires to Yellowstone National Park to help save national resources. Photo by Tom Murphy. Michelin North America Inc. (MNA) reports it will continue providing tires to Yellowstone National Park by renewing its commitment to ...
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Bridgestone Corp. posted net income of 117 billion yen on net sales of 1.7 trillion yen for the first half ended June 30, 2013. That compares to income of 75.2 billion yen on sales of nearly 1.5 trillion yen for the same period last year. ...
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On August 14, Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) announced that in the first seven months this year its costs for purchases of steelmaking raw materials indicated an 11.92 percent ...
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Zijin Mining Group Co., China's largest gold producer by output, announced on Wednesday a 54 percent year-on-year slump in net profits in the first half of 2013, largely due to falling gold prices. In a statement filed with the Shanghai ...
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Pulverized glass may be coming to a beach near you, but you won't be able to tell the difference because it will look and feel like sand beneath your feet. Broward County commissioners will decide Tuesday whether to support a program that ...
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"China's rare earth ore exports have been rebounding monthly since February,"said Ma Rongzhang, secretary-general of the China Rare Earth Industry Association. But Ma and the association did not provide export figures for the first half. ...
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The construction of a new soda ash plant, as agreed by the Governments of Belarus and China will be launched in 2013. Anatoly Nichkasov, Belarus’ Minister of Architecture and Construction, said in a press conference, that the ...
Taiwan’s China Steel Corp (CSC) has announced that its Indian non grain oriented electrical steel (NGOES) plant hot run will be delayed to next year. The NGOES plant is scheduled to produce 200,000 tons of electrical steel per year ...
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NGC Software announced version 14 of its PLM, Supply Chain Management (SCM) and ERP solutions, bringing new accuracy and efficiency to all areas of product development and supply chain execution for retailers, brands and consumer goods ...
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The raw materials for ancient glass beads found in former Rhaetian settlements in Bavaria clearly did not originate from this region. This is the conclusion following an analysis of the beads at the TRIGA research reactor of the Institute ...
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Showa Denko KK (SDK) has decided to build a 100,000-tons/year ethyl acetate plant at its Oita complex in Japan, based on its own recently developed technology. Ethyl acetate is used in wide-ranging applications, including printing ink and ...
The situation as regards excess supply in certain areas of the global long steel products market remained the same in July as compared to June, according to the market outlook released by IREPAS, the global association of producers and ...
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GranBio, a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the same raw material that ...
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BMW, Ferrari, Porsche and Volkswagen vehicles feature tungsten that is illegally mined by a terrorist group in Columbia, according to a Bloomberg Markets magazine report. Bloomberg followed the journey of the tungsten ore, called ...