A number of different man made materials are now used for construction purposes. Of them, one of the most popular ones is glass reinforced plastic or GRP. It is commonly known as fibreglass. GRP is a composite fibre consisting of plastic ...
A Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) can simultaneously generate electricity and treat wastewater, but currently used materials and catalysts lead to high operational costs. This work investigates the use of sulfonated poly ether ether ketone ...
Tags: Microbial Fuel Cell, Electrical, Electronics
In future, it will be much easier to produce some active pharmaceutical substances and chemical compounds than was the case to date. An international team working with chemists from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in ...
Tags: Textile Fabric, Chemical Process
TeraXion Inc of Quebec, Canada (which designs and manufactures optical components and modules for high-speed fiber-optic transmission networks, fiber lasers and optical sensing applications) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, optical components
After trading to a low of 82.11 cents last week, downside momentum faded and the market was able to move slightly higher this week, with December closing today about 300 points above important long-term support at 81.72 cents. The lack of ...
Tags: NY Futures, Textile
Albemarle Corporation, a leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of flame retardants, will increase the price of SAYTEX CP-2000 (tetrabromo bisphenol A) flame retardant by 15% on all shipments effective immediately or as ...
Tags: Albemarle, Flame Retardant Price
The WTO lawsuit is expected to reach a verdict at the end of this year. Members of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths (CSRE) and Association of Rare Earth Industry (ACREI) have expressed that China has a high chance of losing the lawsuit ...
Tags: Rare Earth, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced that its Business Unit Catalysts has signed long-term cooperation agreements with CB&I's Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH business unit. The two companies will combine and ramp up ...
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BASF is building a new Ultramid polymerization plant with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year in Shanghai, China. The new plant is planned to start up in 2015. “As part of our long-term strategy, we aim to locate production ...
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BASF is building a new Ultramid polymerization plant with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year in Shanghai, China. The new plant is planned to start up in 2015. "As part of our long-term strategy, we aim to locate production close ...
Tags: BASF, engineering plastics, plastics, Construction
Traders have remained rather indecisive, as they are torn between a tight supply situation nearby that justifies firm prices until new crop arrives and a potentially bearish outlook thereafter. As a result we have a market that is stuck ...
INEOS Technologies is pleased to announce that it has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of medium density and high density polyethylene to CNOOC Oil and Petrochemical Company Limited for its cracker complex located in ...
Tags: China, Cnooc, Ineos Technology
Today, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies president and CEO Andreas Kramvis announced that Honeywell will invest $208 million in new manufacturing projects at its four production sites in Louisiana. The ...
The versatility of polyurethane chemistry and its benefits for the building and construction industry will be the focus of three separate technical sessions at the 2013 Polyurethanes Technical Conference, presented by the Center for the ...
Shell's hopes for a new gas-to-liquids mega project on the US Gulf Coast would benefit from much-improved process efficiencies, but any resulting cost savings could be limited by the need to build most of the plant outside the US, Shell ...
Tags: gas-to-liquids mega, Chemicals