Williams Energy will apply in early 2013 to Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board to build a natural gas liquids and olefins processing facilities in the province, even as it aims to add a new petrochemical value chain, the ...
Styron plans to increase polycarbonate prices in Europe by Eur230/mt ($294/mt) in December due to squeezed margins, it said in a statement Wednesday. "Following the elevation in costs of the key raw materials associated with the ...
Phoenix Industries, a plastics products maker in Sri Lanka has laid the foundation stone for a new LKR350m ($3m) plant in Horana, which will supply the packaging needs of the fast moving consumer goods company Unilever's Sri Lanka unit. ...
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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Bend Research has won two new US patents covering the technology that increases the oral bioavailability of low-solubility drugs. The patents protect compositions and processes for making spray-dried dispersions (SDDs) made with an ...
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German sports car manufacturer Porsche has unveiled the prototype of its 918 Spyder sports car in Martini livery, which is currently undergoing development testing in collaboration with Martini Racing. The new sports car is a parallel ...
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The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with Mohawk Industries Inc., a carpet manufacturer based in Calhoun, Ga., under which the company will increase fire protection at its four carpet pad facilities. The agreement ...
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Noting that Iran is eagerly trying to develop its petrochemical industry, the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) Managing Director Abdolhossein Bayat said the country's petrochemical exports for first seven months of the current fiscal ...
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EnviroLogix has signed a collaborative agreement with Douglas Scientific to develop and optimize solutions for nucleic acid analysis solutions. The companies will leverage and build upon EnviroLogix isothermal DNAblev2.0 chemistry and ...
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Flint Group Packaging and Narrow Web is set to introduce its new solvent based ink systems PamioStar Outdoor which provides good adhesion and resistance properties for production of durable outdoor bags and FlexiTech Shrink-U. Flint said ...
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Boston Scientific has completed enrolling first patient in a EVOLVE II clinical trial of its Synergy Everolimus-Eluting platinum chromium coronary stent system. The CE-marked stent features a combination of everolimus drug and ...
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Lubrizol, Ohio-based coatings and additives firm, has developed a variety of heated seal coating, BlisterBrand Pro, designed specifically for carded blister pack applications, which the firm claims is an alternative to conventional solvent ...
US-based Sealed Air has introduced a new multilayer shrink sleeve film. The new film enables converters to make up to 20% more shrink sleeves labels per pound of film compared to 50-micron monolayer films, normally used to make shrink ...
Tipa has announced the launching a 100% biodegradable, multi-layered film, which will produce liquid-carrying pouches. Israel-based company, which devotes itself to the development of green packaging, said the company's patent-pending ...
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Cardia Bioplastics and Alto Packaging have teamed up to produce packaging technology manufactured with Cardia’s thermoplastic starch resins. The resins, which are compatible with existing plastic recycle processes would be food safe ...
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