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 ...
Plymouth expects £1 million annual savings from LED street lighting upgrade Plymouth City Council has given the go-ahead for an £8 million street lighting upgrade as part of a wider energy and carbon dioxide saving programme. ...
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On Monday, IBM will take the wraps off a portfolio of products for software-defined storage, an area where established vendors and startups alike are already claiming the future has arrived. ‘Elastic Storage’ aims at some ...
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The industrial market is increasingly looking for highperformance, sustainable coatings to protect its assets. The versatility of ultraviolet- (UV) cured waterborne polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) from Bayer MaterialScience LLC is just one ...
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Epistar, the largest Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, posted consolidated revenues of NT$2.510 billion (US$83.0 million) for April, its highest monthly figure on record, with growth of 5.92% on month and 30.81% on year, and ...
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Body Central Corp. announces the measures taken by company to reduce compensation expense in fiscal year 2014. On May 8, 2014, Body Central Corp. entered into amendments to its employment agreements with Brian Woolf, its Chief ...
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Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report showed farmers spent last week getting after it, bringing corn and soybean planting up to schedule. Farmers in parts of the Corn Belt have all their corn in the ground and have moved on to soybeans, ...
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South Korea will seek to import more shale gas-based LNG from North America to meet rising power demand amid tighter environmental regulations, the deputy energy minister told Platts Friday. "Natural gas as a source of power generation ...
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Molybdenum oxide and European ferromolybdenum soared higher Thursday as sources said the market was being driven by extreme tightness for oxide powder. The Platts daily dealer molybdenum oxide assessment climbed to $13.70-14.20/lb on ...
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Steel mills finalized their May scrap procurements in Ohio -- the last major US region to settle and the highest-priced -- late Thursday and into Friday, sources said. A majority of sales were concluded on a delivered mill basis at ...
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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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We had the opportunity to speak with Kim Marti Subirana from Celsa Group, the president of IREPAS, during the SteelOrbis Spring 2014 Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting held on March 30-April 1 in Barcelona. Mr. Marti, how do you view the ...
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National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO, India's largest domestic aluminium producer) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for sourcing an environmentally friendly technology for a 10 tonne per annum (TPA) gallium extraction plant that ...
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Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. posted net income of 6.5 billion yen on net sales of 139.9 billion yen for its first quarter ended March 31, 2014. That compares to income of 5.6 billon yen on sales of more than 127.6 billion yen for 1Q 2013. ...
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