Sports brand adidas announced a new roadmap towards the elimination of hazardous chemicals from its products and supply chain. In collaboration with Greenpeace's Detox campaign, the official World Cup sponsor has laid out a credible plan ...
China's producer price index (PPI) contracted 1.4 percent year on year in May, following a 2-percent decline in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Tuesday. The index edged down 0.1 percent in May from the ...
Crystal IS Inc of Green Island, NY, USA, an Asahi Kasei company that makes proprietary ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVC LEDs) grown pseudomorphically (strained) on aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, has announced availability of its ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday that US Class I railroads originated 110,164 carloads of crude oil in the first quarter of 2014, 1.4 percent more than in the fourth quarter of 2013 and, by 1,559 carloads, the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Product introduction:UK e shisha pen portable e-cigarette disposable eshisha with multiple flavors:Our distinct E Shisha flavour and aroma is as good as smoking a real shisha but the compact cigarette design allows you to easy take them ...
Not all cigarettes are the same. Some brands have higher cigarette tar than others. The Consumer Council in China recently cited laboratory tests that found some brands of tobacco have tar levels that are 15 times higher than others. ...
Tags: Cigarette, E Cigarette, E-Cigarette
Sustainability initiatives in the European coatings sector have reached a new phase with a much stronger focus on issues like low carbon footprints of products and waste reductions. Previously the industry has been concentrating on ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Decoration
BASF has obtained a patent for a method of self-healing cured coatings, which is comprised of heating a coating of a cured coating composition for a period of at least 10 minutes to a temperature which lies at least 25° C above the ...
Tags: Coating, Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
The Spanish company Jeanologia specialized in the development of sustainable technologies for garment finishing will present in Bangladesh its EIM (Environmental Impact Measuring) software. This is the first software in the world able to ...
May coal exports from Virginia's Hampton Roads region totaled roughly 3.6 million st, down 8.2% from April and down 17.5% from the year-ago month, the Virginia Maritime Association said Wednesday. Weak seaborne pricing for both ...
Tags: Chemicals, Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral
The Asian price spread between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene widened by $7.50/mt to $250/mt early Thursday afternoon following an SM plant outage in Europe, but high stocks in China were expected to limit the widening of ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
More than half of Asia's gas needs will be supplied by LNG by 2030, Santos Ltd CEO David Knox said Thursday, adding that this will provide the Australian LNG exporter opportunities to grow. Speaking from the Brisbane Mining Club, Knox ...
Tags: Gas, Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Novomer Inc., a sustainable materials company offering a family of high-performance polymers and other chemicals from renewable feedstocks such as carbon dioxide (CO2), has announced the commercial introduction of Converge polypropylene ...
Tags: PPC Polyols, sustainable materials
The global market for powder coating is expected to reach $12.48 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Growing support for the use of powder coatings in comparison to conventional liquid paints by regulatory ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals, powder coatings, coatings
European spot steam cracker margins hit a near month high of Eur72/mt ($98/mt) Wednesday on the back of an increase in ethylene. Ethylene spot prices Wednesday reached their highest point since the end of February at Eur942.50/mt FD NWE, ...