Adhesive supplier Henkel and DaniMer Scientific, LLC have formed an alliance to develop hot-melt adhesives for packaging that use bio-based raw materials. The initial target for these bio-based hot-melt adhesives will be the consumer ...
The Australian sharemarket rose to a 20-month high today as investors continued to buy banks, consumer staples, property trusts, healthcare and energy companies, while remaining hesitant on iron ore producers after spot iron ore prices ...
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The Australian sharemarket closed at a 19-month high as firming expectations of a February interest rate cut helped banking stocks. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 18.3 points, or 0.38 per cent, higher at 4756.6 ...
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) Tuesday determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty order on clad steel plate from Japan would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably ...
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Zhejiang-based Chinese company Weisheng Holding Co. has started production at its electro-slag ingot project for high-quality special alloy steel in the Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou city in China’s Zhejiang Province, as reported by ...
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The full US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday said it would not reconsider an August decision by a three-judge panel of the court that tossed out a key challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's ...
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G2X Energy will this week finalize an option to lease land needed to build a $1.3 billion natural gas-to-gasoline facility at The Port of Lake Charles in Southwest Louisiana, Louisiana Economic Development said Tuesday. The lease is ...
New data from Malvern Instruments demonstrate how rheological methods can be used to investigate the speed at which biopolymers, such as polylactic acid (PLA), whose low environmental impact is a defining feature, will biodegrade and ...
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Iraq’s Petroleum Contracts & Licensing Directorate (PCLD), part of the Ministry of Oil, has announced that following requests received from interested companies the deadline for submitting qualification information for the Nasiriya ...
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Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd established Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical LLCin 2008, together with Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Kuwait Petroleum International, and PetroVietnam in order to develop a workable concrete business scheme for the ...
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ArcelorMittal Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico's largest steel producer and slab exporter and part of global steelmaker ArcelorMittal's Mexican operations, has recently launched production for slabs which will be used in pipelines that ...
US steam cracker margins climbed week-on-week as ethylene prices reacted to the news of planned and unplanned outages in the US Gulf Coast region. ExxonMobil suffered an upset at its Baytown, Texas, olefins plant Tuesday. Westlake ...
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Writing in the Financial Times, a partner at a London-based financial advisory business suggests Iraq as a true frontier market investment. Citing precedents such as Japan in the early 1960s and Russia in 1995, Richard Greer, a partner at ...
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Australian shares rose slightly yesterday as global equity markets remained supported by tentative signs of improvement in China's economy. Fund managers tipped continued yield-based demand for Australian equities in particular, although ...
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WesternZagros Resources has awarded a contract for two 2,000 horse-power drilling rigs with a leading North American drilling contractor. The two rigs have been contracted to drill the Hasira-1 well, the Baram-1 well and subsequent wells ...
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