A decade ago, few leaders in the apparel industry would have predicted the high level of technical expertise, quality, and design sophistication we are seeing in China’s knitwear business. While opinion once held that Italian and ...
Tags: Chinese Spinners, Yarns
The US spot ethylene market was at a standstill Thursday on news of an explosion and fire at Williams' olefins complex in Louisiana that killed one person earlier in the day, market sources said. Sellers pulled all material Thursday ...
Tags: Ethylene, Louisiana Plant Fire
Berger Paints has launched globally accredited Easy Clean and Rangoli Total Care in the Nepali market. Berger Easy Clean is formulated with special types of cross-linking polymers and micro fine pigments. "This provides high washability ...
Tags: Paint, Construction, Decoration, pigment
AkzoNobel's Science Award program officially honored its first North American recipient when Carnegie Mellon University Professor Krzysztof (Kris) Matyjaszewski, Ph.D. was recognized for his cutting-edge polymer chemistry research. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, polymer chemistry
DriTac Flooring Products is introducing DriTac 7700 Easy Clean 4-in-1 Premium Green MS Polymer Sound & Moisture Control Wood Flooring Adhesive. Easy to clean off the surface of hardwood flooring wet or dry, DriTac 7700 Easy Clean 4-in-1 ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Flooring
Micell, a US-based biomedical company, has received CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark clearance for its MiStent Sirolimus Eluting Absorbable Polymer Coronary Stent System (MiStent SES). MiStent Sirolimus Eluting Absorbable ...
Tags: Micell, Mistent SES
PolyOne Corporation, a provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, has completed the previously announced sale of its vinyl dispersion, blending and suspension resin assets to Mexichem, S.A.B. de C.V. for $250 million ...
Tags: PolyOne, Non-Core Resin
New Energy Technologies, Inc., developer of the world's first-of-its-kind, see-through technology capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics, announced today that researchers have achieved important device design, ...
Tags: Glass Windows, Construction
INVISTA celebrated the successful start-up of its recently expanded air bag fiber manufacturing plant in the Qingpu District of Shanghai. With this expansion, INVISTA becomes the first air bag fiber producer in Asia to exceed the 20 ...
Tags: Airbag Fibre, INVISTA
Demand in the Turkish polymer market has slumped as riots have erupted in major cities and the local currency has tumbled, sources said this week. "There is instability, and the issue of payments, caused by political unrest. It is very ...
New cleaner polypropylene carbonate (PPC) polymers that promise to transform the biodegradable polymer industry are being created by biomolecular engineers at the University of Sydney. The plastics will be used for fully recyclable ...
Tags: polypropylene carbonate, Chemicals, biodegradable polymer industry
Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina has signed sales and purchase agreements with PTT Polymer Marketing, a unit of Thailand's PTT Global Chemical, for polyethylene and polypropylene products, a Pertamina official said ...
Plastics these days have become requisite part of our daily life. Almost every industry and home makes use of it. According to the variation in molecular structure, plastics can be classified as thermoplastics or thermo sets. Keeping the ...
Tags: Plastics, Processing Machinery
In results published this morning, RPC revealed that sales for the year to 31 March 2013 slipped to £1.05bn, from £1.13bn the previous year. Pre-tax profit fell to £40.3m compared to £59.6m a year earlier. The ...
Fujitsu will this month launch a super-thin Ultrabook, built on Intel's latest Haswell processors, with an 11-hour battery life and a screen with nearly three times HD resolution. The company said the new "UH90/L" model from its Lifebook ...