The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) published the fourteenth edition of the AAFA Restricted Substances List (RSL), covering apparel, footwear, travel goods, home textiles, and other fashion accessories. The updated RSL ...
FMC has broken ground on a new colors blending facility at its manufacturing site in Newark, Delaware, strengthening its natural colors business. The new location will cater to the growing demand in North America for highly stable, ...
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Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) has been awarded a contract to build a large gas chemical complex for State Concern “Turkmengas”, in collaboration with Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd., ...
Genomatica has been selected as the winner of the 2014 Bioeconomy Leadership Award. The Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (SBFC) chose Genomatica as the company that has significantly advanced the development of a renewable ...
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China's Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical has increased its ex-works phenol offer by Yuan 100/mt ($16.24/mt), or 1%, to Yuan 10,400/mt on Monday, a company source said. The offer is equivalent to $1,335.31/mt on an import parity basis. The ...
US May propylene contract price settlements fully settled at a 0.5 cent/lb ($11/mt) decrease compared with April's contract price, sources said Monday. The decrease puts prices for chemical-grade propylene at 69 cents/lb and polymer-grade ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for the proposed revisions to the agricultural Worker Protection Standard for an additional 60 days, until August 18, 2014, in response to requests from growers, ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has introduced the Apex Gas Mixing System for point-of-use gas mixing. The system generates precise binary gas mixtures on a single platform for ...
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PPG Industries Head of Supply Chain and Global Director of Supply Chain and Operations, Automotive Refinish, Peter Ten Hagen will present at the American Chemical Manufacturing Summit on Tuesday, May 13, at 8:55 a.m. ET. Ten Hagen will ...
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Exports of Russian acetone dropped to just 2,666 mt in March after the explosion at the Omsk acetone plant forced other Russian producers to shift their focus to the domestic market, the latest data published by the Federal Customs Service ...
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Researchers based in Singapore and Turkey have demonstrated a last quantum barrier (LQB) structure for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that improves the electron blocking and hole injection of an aluminium ...
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According to a study form Lux Research, investment and growth in bio-based material and chemical capacity continues to increase globally. Aggregating 229 sites from 217 companies that are planned, operating, or have been shuttered between ...
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China's latest five-year plan promises to shift the economy from its dependence on exports toward domestic consumption as an engine of growth. The key to achieving this will be for the nation to enhance the ability of its economy to ...
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EPA announced today that it will seek public comment on what information could be reported and disclosed for hydraulic fracturing chemicals and mixtures and the approaches for obtaining this information, including non-regulatory approaches. ...
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan decided to not move forward with their proposed joint venture to construct a Linear Alpha Olefins unit on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Accordingly, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: ...
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