The front-month Brent/WTI spread narrowed Thursday to its lowest level in more than 20 months, dropping under $1/barrel as NYMEX crude broke above resistance levels on recent stock drops and an equities euphoria. The September Brent/WTI ...
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The Swiss yarn manufacturer Hermann Bühler AG is the very first company worldwide to receive a certificate for sustainable textile production in line with the certification system “Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) by ...
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Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced that it has signed a long-term supply contract with OMV. From 2015, the Austrian oil and Gas Company will supply Clariant’s site in Gendorf (Germany) with ethylene. This ...
Clariant, a leading specialty chemical company, announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Connell Brothers, the largest marketer and distributor of specialty chemicals and industrial ingredients in Asia Pacific, to market ...
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United States agrochemicals firm Monsanto has terminated its plans to grow new types of genetically modified (GM) crops in the European Union over lack of prospects for cultivation in the region. The company said that it will drop all the ...
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The national pavilions of Germany and Belgium would be participating for the first time in the 8th Central Asian International Textile Machinery Exhibition (CAITME) 2013. CAITME 2013 and the 10th anniversary Central Asian ...
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Succeeding the popular, field-proven Model 400, the new 402 Final Touch Print & Apply labeler offers a more simple operation with fewer moving parts, a smaller footprint and an affordable price point while maintaining the rugged reliability ...
US rail transport of petroleum and petroleum products in the week ended Saturday totaled 13,203 cars, up 19.7% from the corresponding week in 2012, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. In the first 28 weeks of 2013, ...
The UK's Petrofac has agreed to increase its stake in the Abu Dhabi-based Petrofac Emirates joint venture to 75% from 50% as the remaining state-owned holding is privatized, Petrofac said Thursday. Following both transactions, the ...
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ECHA publishes a roadmap towards enhancing the quality of information communicated in the exposure scenarios included in the REACH chemical safety reports and in the extended safety data sheets. These documents hold essential information on ...
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Researchers have developed an intelligent surgical knife that can help doctors identify if a tissue being cut is of cancerous nature or not, in turn enabling an accurate surgery. The knife, created by London's Imperial College ...
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Japanese ingredients company Ajinomoto has opened a new JPY17bn ($170m) facility for the production of umami seasoning AJI-NO-MOTO in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand. The completion ceremony was held on 15 July and full-scale operation ...
TANATEX Chemicals presents the HydrECO Concept, which entails comprehensive fluorine-free alternatives to water repellents. Awareness impulse Fluorocarbons are still the state-of-the-art chemistry for water repellents. But this ...
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The differential for California-grade blendstock dropped 15.5 cents/gal on Wednesday after US data showed an 818,000-barrel gasoline build on the West Coast. The move left the differential at a discount to NYMEX RBOB for the first time in ...
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The NYMEX August natural gas futures contract posted a preliminary settlement Wednesday of $3.629/MMBtu, down 4.8 cents, as the market lacked drivers to push it higher, sources said. The market is going through some choppy trade "in what ...
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