The nation's chemical industry still faces challenges involving work safety after more than 20 years of development, but the government will continue to make great efforts to improve the situation, said a senior official on Wednesday. In ...
Tags: Chemical Plants, Chemicals
A lack of demand for molybdenum oxide pushed prices lower throughout the day, sources said Friday. Platts assessed its daily molybdenum oxide price at $9.50-9.60/lb, down from $9.55-9.60/lb. "Everyone is talking about $9.50 but no deals ...
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Japan imported 4,536 mt of styrene-butadiene-rubber solids in July, up 22% from 3,732 mt in June but down 26% from 6,129 mt a year earlier, data released Friday by the Rubber Trade Association of Japan showed. The country has imported ...
Tags: Chemicals, styrene-butadiene-rubber solids, Synthetic rubber
Ahlstrom is increasing prices in the fourth quarter of 2013 for its filtration materials globally. Ahlstrom says that the price increases will be made to compensate for the continued rise in raw material costs such as speciality pulps, ...
Everywhere careful usage of water is given more emphasis, be it home, office or industry. Ever since people have come to know water being scarce, effective measures are taken to conserve this natural resource. Numerous products have made to ...
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China's chemical industry has achieved 15 percent annual industrial growth with a drop in workplace accidents, a senior official said on Wednesday. "The government has been paying increasing attention to the safety of work conditions when ...
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US spot methanol prices reached their highest level in four months Wednesday. Platts assessed methanol at $1.43/gal FOB US Gulf Wednesday. The last time methanol was any higher was on May 2 when it was assessed at $1.44/gal FOB US Gulf. ...
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The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes shrank $9/mt day on day to a one-year low of $175/mt on a CFR basis Wednesday as PX prices turned top heavy while MX remained bullish, Platts data showed. Asian ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,16 commodities increased in prices, 26 fell and 58 remained unchanged on 05/09/2013.The largest rises were SBR (1.21%),Styrene (1.05%),LLDPE (0.80%),while the largest falls ...
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Gevo, Inc. announced that Greg Roda has joined the company as Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, Roda will be responsible for all business development activities for the Company. "Greg's background is ideally suited to leading ...
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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 ...
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Total intends to invest €160 million before 2016 to adapt its petrochemical platform in Carling, in the Lorraine region of eastern France, and to restore its competitiveness. Total plans indeed to develop new activities on the ...
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One of the most neglected parts of our house is the garage. All the old and rejected household articles are kept inside the garage. Garden tools, chemicals, cans of gas and many such useless or less-attractive things are put up in the ...
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Growth in worldwide demand for packaging machinery is expected to climb at a 4.6 percent annual pace through 2017 to $41.8 billion. An improved business climate-which will be reflected in expanding fixed investment spending, manufacturing ...
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Jack Wolfskin will publish a list of its manufacturers. The aim of this transparency offensive is to gradually create an outline of all the stages of production and make it available to the general public. This means Jack Wolfskin will be ...
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