UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is working with the pharmaceutical industry to create user friendly packaging for medicines that are used to treat Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's medicines such as ...
Tags: Dementia Medicines, Packaging
Asian propylene term contract discussions for 2016 are likely to conclude at larger discounts than this year due to an increase in supply in the region, market sources said this week. A source at a producer in South Korea estimated the ...
Tags: propylene, spot market
The water levels on the Rhine hit critically low levels this week, which threatened to send the cost of transporting and handling a range of oil and chemicals even higher after several months of rising costs. Freight and logistics costs ...
Tags: Rhine, transporting, Oil, Petchem
The strike by pilots and tugs in the Greek port of Piraeus was extended by another 48 hours Wednesday, which kept barge loadings from refineries suspended for the third consecutive day. "Until further notice, the strike continues today ...
Tags: high sulfur fuel oil, gasoil, refiner
Despite expectations of a seasonal pickup in the Medium Range tanker market in the Americas in the fourth quarter -- particularly from November onward -- charterers were able to pressure freight rates lower Wednesday, with Medium Range ...
Tags: Freight Rate, USGC-Europe, LR1 tanker
Long Range 1 tanker rates are soaring in Europe as vessels are delayed due to high storage levels in Europe, and the busy naphtha arbitrage to the East is rapidly eating into the available tonnage. LR1 rates on the Northwest Europe to ...
Tags: LR1 Tanker, Naphtha, ships
A local UK council has validated the application for a proposed IGas project to drill two exploratory wells in order to evaluate geology and assess potential shale gas recovery, IGas announced in a statement Friday. Nottinghamshire County ...
Alaskan legislators on Wednesday approved the state's buyout of TransCanada's interest in the Alaska LNG Project. The state House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve funds for the acquisition, which was proposed by Governor Bill ...
Tags: Alaska LNG, TransCanada, oil revenues
Ukraine has wired an additional $24 million in prepayment to Russia's Gazprom for five days of gas supplies, Gazprom's CEO Alexei Miller said Thursday, indicating a significant cut in Kiev's Russian gas imports from last week, along with ...
NYMEX December natural gas futures settled 10.2 cents higher at $2.364/MMBtu Thursday on the back of a bullish storage report. The US Energy Information Administration announced a 52-Bcf storage injection for the week ended October 30, ...
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Equipment spending by semiconductor chip manufacturers, a key industrial market for vendors of both lithography and laser-based wafer processing systems, will reach $32 billion in 2010 – more than double the 2009 figure. ...
Tags: semiconductor, chip, LED fab
Escalating demand for photovoltaic (PV) products drove record-breaking additions of cell manufacturing capacity during the third quarter of 2010, while subsequent announcements suggest that the PV boom is set to continue. US-based ...
Tags: Solar, photovoltaic, First Solar
The global market for laser materials processing systems reached a new record high of €7.9 billion in 2012. Measured in euros the market grew 9 % over 2011, while measured in US-dollars the market grew only by 1 %. These observations ...
The integration of LEDs into biophotonics and medical science devices is set to increase in value by a multiple of five over the coming six years, according to a new forecast by ElectroniCast, Upper Lake, CA, USA. Earlier this week, the ...
Tags: LEDs, biophotonics, medical science devices
The factory in Mesa, Arizona, had never been intended to house the manufacture of a gemstone. Ahead of the photovoltaics industry’s 2011-2012 meltdown, First Solar had built it with the aim of producing 280 MW worth of solar panels ...
Tags: Arizona, photovoltaics industry, Alchemy Turns Sapphire