The Asian naphtha industry agreed Thursday that carbon disulfide, or CS2, levels in the light distillate have to be reported for cargoes originating from Sikka, India, and those from Western arbitrage flows into the region. Currently, ...
Tags: Naphtha Industry, Carbon Disulfide
From a zipper-like wound closure device that can be peeled off at home to a telemedicine robot, there are plenty of ingenious devices included as finalists in this year's Medical Design Excellence Awards. It is worth noting, however, that ...
Tags: Reshaping Medtech, Health, Medicine
Japan's ethylene and ethylene derivatives exports in February fell 16.1% from a month earlier to 192,100 ethylene equivalent ton, or EET, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Monday. From a year earlier, the exports were ...
High inventories have pushed the spot price of monoethylene glycol in China to the lowest level seen since July 2012, Platts data showed Tuesday. Weakness in the domestic market pressured down the import price of MEG to $916/mt CFR China ...
Tags: MEG Prices, Domestic Market
Acrylic resins, manufactured by the polymerization of acrylates or methacrylates, find use in several applications ranging from paints and coatings to automotive and construction. Demand for acrylic resins is dependent on the health of the ...
Tags: Acrylic Resins, coating, Paints, Plastics, Adhesives
Asahi Kasei Zoll Medical, the Japanese subsidiary of Zoll Medical, has obtained Shonin approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for its X Series monitor/defibrillator, designed primarily for emergency medical ...
Tokyo-based Teijin Frontier Co. Ltd. has introduced Solotex OO, a high-performance stretch fiber made using Teijin's Solotex polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) fiber for soft texture and stability, and Japan-based Asahi Kasei's Roica ...
Tags: Stretch Fiber, Textile
Asahi Kasei Chemicals announced today that it will build a polycarbonate diol (PCD) plant in China. PCD is an intermediate used in high-performance polyurethanes (PUs). The company will use proprietary technology to produce 3,000 m.t./year ...
Tags: polycarbonate diol, Chemicals
Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation and Kyushu University in Japan detectors based on indium antimonide (InSb) [Koichiro Ueno et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol52, p092202, 2013]. The reshave developed room-temperature mid-infrared ...
Tags: Photodiode, Electrical, Electronics
Asahi Kasei Chemicals has plans to construct a plant in China for Duranol polycarbonatediol (PCD), an intermediate for high-performance polyurethanes. PCD is used to make high-performance polyurethanes with characteristics such as ...
Asahi Kasei Group announces results for 1st quarter fiscal year ending June 30, 2013. Overview of Consolidated Results 1. Consolidated group results Although the US economy showed signs of recovery with improving employment during the ...
Using LEDs as light sources in vegetable gardening is a new business opportunity in Japan, according to a recent Sankei Biz report. Large Japanese real estate developers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and architecture firms are ...
Tags: LED farm vegetable garden, LED, Lights, Lighting
According to the reports from Sankei Biz, using the LEDs as light source for cultivating vegetables becomes a great commercial opportunity in Japan. The real estate industry, household appliances industry and construction industry are all ...
South Korea's May exports of acrylonitrile increased 50.2% month on month to 35,249 mt, according to data released Saturday by the Korea Customs Service. The May exports were nearly four times those of May 2012, when South Korea exported ...
Tags: Chemicals, acrylonitrile
UNIQLO announce a unique collaboration with London-based print design duo Eley Kishimoto within their women’s wear AIRism collection. The EK Jam Factory AIRism collection brings together innovational cooling fabric technology with ...
Tags: Jam Factory, Apparel