Gazprom is conducting a new round of gas talks with a number of its key European clients, including Italy's Eni and France's GDF, to revise down prices under long-term oil-indexed contracts, deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said Tuesday, ...
The European benzene market has so far shrugged off this week's flood news in a number of Central European countries, according to market sources. Traders said they were not aware of any production issues caused by elevated water levels. ...
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Many home owners prefer to keep their concrete garage floors unpainted. The reason is hot tires, weather, moisture, rough use can be real hard on the paint, causing it to peel off. Hence, people believe it is better to keep it unpainted, ...
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NPulp straw-pulp technology uses a chemical process that converts a naturally abundant resource (straw) into pulp for paper making, a process that requires less energy and greatly reduces the amount of greenhouse gases produced, according ...
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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 ...
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Arkema will exhibit its Platamid high performance copolyamide hotmelt adhesives, new PVDF Kynar grades for the spinning of ultra-resistant fibers, and specific Kynar PVDF grades designed for nonwoven and textile coatings at the next edition ...
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The globally respected Entrepreneur Mr. Chandra Kumar Somany ( known to the glass industry fraternity as "C K" ), has been honoured with the 43rd. Phoenix Award, "Glass Person of the Year 2013". Mr. Somany, pioneer of the Indian Glass ...
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Eastman Chemical Company has released its 2013 Sustainability Progress Report, an overview of achievements and areas for continued improvement experienced since the publication of its 2011 Sustainability Report, “Connecting Science ...
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Avantium, a renewable chemicals company, and plastic converter specialist Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner have announced a joint development agreement for the development of PEF (polyethylene furanoate) bottles After The Coca-Cola Company and ...
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The US styrene to benzene spread remained above $300/mt for much of the last week, with the spread at $303.66/mt Monday, according to Platts data. US spot styrene lowered 0.05 cent/lb ($1.10/mt) day on day to a Monday assessment at 72.50 ...
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There has been some uneconomic duplication of facilities such as loading jetties at the three LNG export projects being built on Curtis Island offshore the eastern Australian port of Gladstone, a senior executive at one of the projects ...
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BP has become the second oil and gas major in a day to announce it would have a new chief for its Australian operations, following fast on the heels of a similar announcement by ExxonMobil. Andy Holmes has been appointed president of BP ...
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Mullican Flooring, a leading U.S. hardwood flooring producer, has introduced three new adhesives to the hardwood flooring market – one of which also doubles as a subfloor protection system and carries a lifetime moisture warranty. ...
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China BlueChemical Ltd. (SEHK: 3983) announced yesterday that its controlled subsidiary CBC (Canada) Holding Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire about 45.04 million shares newly issued by Western Potash Corp. (WPX) for CAD 0.71 (about ...
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US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz indicated Thursday that decisions on at least some of the pending applications to export US liquefied natural gas would be made before the end of the year. During his first appearance before the House ...
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