Munich-based WACKER Group has adopted the motto "Discover Tomorrow's Solutions" for this year's Middle East Coatings Show (MECS), in Dubai from March 10 to 12. The company is unveiling a new dispersible polymer powder for cost-efficient, ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
Wild Flavors is reportedly geared up for sale in a deal that could value the ingredients firm at €1.5bn. Information packages to pre-selected bidders are expected to be sent later this month by Citigroup, which is managing the sale ...
Tags: Flavors Firm, Information packages
US commercial crude stocks are expected to have risen 2.3 million barrels for the week ended March 7, according to a Platts analysis and survey of oil analysts Monday. The American Petroleum Institute will release its weekly report at ...
Tags: Crude, commercial crude stocks
On March 19, the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association is holding a webinar on Anti-Counterfeiting & Brand Protection. Here's why you should think about attending that discussion. Between December 2013 and January 2014, ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Anti-Counterfeiting&Brand Protection
Soybeans were sharply lower on fund and commercial selling. Ending stocks were down on the month at 145 million bushels, but that was still larger than expected. Additionally, it looks like traders are more focused on planting and quarterly ...
Tags: Soybeans, Agriculture, Food
The U.S. manufacturing sector is in the midst of a technology renaissance that has the potential to bring manufacturing work back to North America for years, according to Manufacturing Engineering's annual trends report released with its ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Manufacturing
Skate bearings generally last a long time and require little maintenance. If you ride them in the rain or through some puddles then it might be a good idea afterwards to give them a strip and regrease just to stop them rusting too fast. ...
Tags: Skate Bearings, hair dryers
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday mixed US rail traffic for the month of February 2014, with carload volume decreasing and intermodal volume increasing compared with February 2013. Intermodal traffic in February ...
Tags: Metal Product, Coal Shipments
According to local reports, an oil container at Chicago-based National Processing Company caught fire Friday morning. Firefighters put out the blaze and reported no injuries. The fire alarm was quickly elevated to a still-and-box alarm ...
Tags: Steel Plant, Fire
Canada's leading light oil producer Penn West will invest C$900 million ($815 million) in 2014 on its assets in Western Canada, targeting an annual average output of 101,000-106,000 b/d of oil equivalent, CEO Dave Roberts said Friday. ...
Tags: Light Oil Producer, Mineral
Nigerian crude values have been picking up steadily this week on strong US demand for Nigerian and West African crudes, trading sources said Friday. There has been a lot of activity in the past week, with only about 12 out of the 62 ...
Tags: Crude Values, domestic US crudes
Based on the US Commerce Department’s most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of February total ...
Tags: Steel Import, Mineral
MIT chemists have devised a way to trap carbon dioxide and transform it into useful organic compounds, using a simple metal complex. More work is needed to understand and optimize the reaction, but one day this approach could offer an ...
Eaton and Cummins have expanded their SmartAdvantage integrated powertrain offerings. The companies have approved the ISX15 SmartAdvantage - consisting of the Cummins ISX15 engine coupled with the UltraShift Plus automated manual ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
China plans to raise citygate prices of natural gas consumed by non-residential users later this year, the National Development and Reform Commission said in its work report issued Wednesday at the start of the annual session of the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, on-grid tariff