BASF, the world's leading chemical company, will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid® (polyamide) and Ultradur® (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant ...
Tags: BASF, build a compounding plant, polyamide, polybutylene terephthalate
Identifying vitamin deficiencies in babies involves drawing blood, a disheartening experience for all involved. Scientists at Michigan Technological University are working on a painless alternative. Instead of using blood plasma, Adrienne ...
Tags: Analysis Tool, Health, Medicine, Instruments, Meters
Corgenix Medical, in collaboration with Randox Laboratories, has filed first 510(k) premarket notification with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the TxBCardio immunoturbidimetric assay. According to Corgenix Medical, ...
PathoGenetix, Inc., a developer of an automated system for bacterial strain typing, and Marshfield Food Safety, LLC, a full service microbiology and chemistry contract testing laboratory, have signed an agreement to evaluate ...
Tags: Food Industry, automated system
The Dow Chemical Company has declared a dividend of 32 cents per share, payable Jan. 30, 2014, to shareholders of record on Dec. 31, 2013. This marks the 409th consecutive cash dividend issued by the Company. Dow has paid its shareholders ...
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The North American Crop Protection Division of BASF announced today that the company will make an end-of-year donation of $50,000 to hunger relief programs. The donation is split between a $25,000 gift to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern ...
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Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) will collaborate with American Chemistry Council's (ACC) Plastics division to work on issues like recycling and growth opportunities of rigid packaging. Under the partnership, the ACC's Rigid ...
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Receptos, a biopharmaceutical company, has announced that Ono Pharmaceuticals has elected to amend and expand the existing collaboration agreement between the parties to include transfer to Ono of the Receptos G-protein-coupled receptor ...
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InnoCentive, Inc. the global leader in open innovation crowdsourcing competitions, and The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), today announced the Oil-Sol Challenge to expand the use of Dow's novel oil-soluble polyalkylene glycol (oil-soluble ...
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The combination of tomato, olive oil, garlic and onion in a sofrito increases the amount of polyphenols and carotenoids, which are bioactive compounds that may help to prevent cardiovascular diseases and cancer, according to new research ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer to study polymers at the Delft University of Technology. Dr. Theo Dingemans is the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ...
Tags: Magritek, NMR, Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer, polymers
Scientists have turned towards a new ‘greener’ dyeing method under which they coax colored fibers from silkworms by feeding them dyed leaves, as per a latest study conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ...
Tags: Colored Fibers, Dyed Leaf
I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
BASF and Pacific NorthWest LNG have concluded a license agreement on the use of BASF's OASE® technology for the removal of carbon dioxide and sulfur containing components from natural gas for all trains of Pacific NorthWest LNG's ...
Tags: BASF, Pacific NorthWest LNG, gas, prification, LNG, OASE technology
Linkam Scientific Instruments report on the use of their stages for supramolecular polymer research at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. As part of the Supramolecular polymer chemistry group at the Eindhoven ...
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