The manmade fibre (MMF) segment needs to grow substantially if the Indian textile industry has to achieve a turnover of US$ 350 billion by 2025, according to Prem Malik, chairman of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI). ...
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Rising production costs and falling global crude prices are prompting Chinese oil companies to reduce output and explore other options for sustainable profit growth in the long term, a leading industry expert said on Tuesday. Part of the ...
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Devices running the Android 4.4 KitKat operating system continue to jump up in market share, it emerged on Friday. The deliciously-themed update accounted for 39.9 per cent share of all Android devices visiting the Google Play Store in ...
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Sony Pictures has revealed it was largely unprepared for the hacking attack that took place last year. Michael Lynton, the chief executive of the firm, spoke to the Associated Press, describing the firm as being a ‘canary in the ...
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The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
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PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business will highlight new products during preview days at the 2015 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit’s Cobo Center, Jan. 12-15. The products are designed to help ...
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Kuwait-based Equate Petrochemical Company said it has successfully completed turnaround of its plants and also the first phase of the polyethylene plant debottlenecking project. As part of the exercise, all units were shutdown from ...
Tags: ethylene, polyethylene, ethylene glycol, Textile
Social network giant Twitter has won an Emmy award, it's been revealed. At the 66th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards (yes, it's a thing), Twitter picked up a shiny golden trinket for "Innovation in Improving Engagement Around ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has received a new purchase order for indium phosphide (InP) materials worth $3.25m from a leading global substrate manufacturer. Produced by IQE’s Wafer Technology ...
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Surf Technicians, LLC (Surftech), has been acquired Triple D Corporation Company Limited, a Thialand based investment company, that holds interests in various companies including a composites parts manufacturer. The acquisition brings the ...
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Used to be that a car's bragging rights had everything to do with horsepower. Now, it's computing power, as automakers vie for consumer dollars with the latest in tech gadgetry. That pitched battle is in full view here at the 2015 ...
Spain-based Emsur will start operations at its first American production facility in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, from January this year. Spread over 77,000ft2, it was opened in December 2014, reports FoodProduction daily.com. The ...
Jaguar Land Rover has launched three limited edition models of Defender to celebrate different elements of the vehicle's character. The three models include Heritage, Adventure and Autobiography editions, which has already available for ...
The 2015 International CES® kicks off today poised to be a record-breaking show with more than 3,600 exhibitors across the largest show floor in history with more than 2.2 million net square feet of exhibit space, breaking last ...
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The International CES® and Radius Networks announced today that the 2015 CES will feature a new navigation system for attendees, powered by Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. The navigation system, accessible through the CES app, will ...
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