China has imposed a temporary ban on imports of British cheese following complaints from food inspectors on hygienic standards at an undisclosed UK dairy. The Chinese officials, who are visited dairy plants, were reportedly ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has demonstrated gallium nitride (GaN) vertical Schottky and p-n diodes on silicon Si substrates “for the first time” [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
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To consumers, Bormioli Rocco, is a top selling brand of tableware glass. To the industry, it is a provider of food and beverage glass - for brands such as Nutella, Ferrero, Molinari Sambuca, Barilla, Amaretto di Saronno - and a major ...
BASF and SINOPEC will build a new world-scale production plant for Neopentylglycol (NPG) at their state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China. The plant, with a total annual capacity of about ...
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W. L. Gore & Associates has introduced two new 3FL (Full Face Foam Liner) cap liners, which will maintain the structural integrity of containers of chemicals for agricultural and household uses. The company has developed the new ...
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UNSW Australia researchers have invented a new type of tiny lab-on-a-chip device that could have a diverse range of applications, including to detect toxic gases, fabricate integrated circuits and screen biological molecules. The novel ...
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German chemical giant BASF plans to intensify its deep cooperation with Russia's Gazprom in Europe and internationally, the company's chief executive Kurt Bock said Friday. "Russia is important, very important for us," Bock said at BASF's ...
Berlin Packaging, a leading full-service supplier of plastic, glass, and metal containers and closures, announced that its packaging solutions had a strong showing at the 2014 NACD (National Association of Container Distributors) Packaging ...
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Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has claimed the highest optical 3dB modulation bandwidth of ~463MHz at 50mA for a 500nm-wavelength blue-green indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
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Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, announced it has acquired Filter Specialists Inc. (FSI), a worldwide supplier of filtration products and solutions based in Michigan City, Indiana. ...
FMC Corporation announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of 15 cents per share, payable on July 17, 2014, to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2014. FMC Corporation is a ...
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Quaker Chemical Corporation announced a 3% increase in net sales of $181.7 million for the first quarter of 2014 compared to the first quarter of 2013 net sales of $176.2 million. Foreign exchange rate translation negatively impacted net ...
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US propylene inventories at the end of first quarter of 2014 were 3.6% higher than year-ago levels and 1.5% above stocks at the end of the previous quarter, revised data from the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers trade group ...
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During the week of April 20, ethylene production facilities at The Dow Chemical Company Plaquemine, La. site experienced two separate process incidents. These separate incidents collectively resulted in the disruption of ethylene production ...
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Counter bids for May Asian Contract Price for paraxylene were in a range of $1,040-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Tuesday. There are four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and JX Nippon Oil ...
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