The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday that total US rail traffic was mixed for July 2013, with intermodal setting a new July record for average weekly volume and carload volume decreasing slightly overall compared ...
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Sometime soon you could be drinking your fruit smoothie from a plastic cup that started life as a pile of grass clippings. Moreover, these same kinds of cups also might end up as compost on your lawn. Scientists are working to reduce the ...
Investment in Fixed Assets for January to July 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-08-09 15:43:56 From January to July 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 22,172.2 billion yuan, up by ...
From January to July, the private investment in fixed assets reached 14,120.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.3 percent in nominal terms, down by 0.1 percentage point over the first six months. The proportion of private ...
Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods in July 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-08-09 15:54:20 In July 2013, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,851.3 billion yuan, up by 13.2 percent year-on-year (nominal ...
The production of paraxylene, a key raw material needed for production of polyester fabrics, is getting stagnated in China, as new projects are getting derailed, which may affect the textile companies that use PX as a raw material. ...
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Related Media In search of the next agricultural museum Do regulators really believe what they say? 'App' helps Central Valley growers manage irrigation water This little piggy slid through the pipes and helped the winery reduce water use ...
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Biodegradable hydraulic oil is a medium used to transfer power to hydraulic machinery. In some instances, this is used as replacement for conventional petroleum products. Nowadays, this is used in many different industries such as forestry, ...
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The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported today that non-manufacturing activity in July had a very solid month. In its Non-Manufacturing Report on Business, the ISM reported that its index used to measure growth—the ...
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Webbing is an extraordinary and reasonable approach to move vast objects. Anyway how would you pick between polyester and nylon webbing? Both offer profits that you may as well acknowledge. They won't scratch, damage, or ruin the things ...
Oil prices advanced on Wednesday after a report showed that U.S. economic growth was higher than expected in the second quarter of the year. The U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.7 percent in the ...
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Ethanol processed from corn and other plants could serve as the new sustainable raw material for a huge variety of products, including textiles, which are currently made from petrochemical products. Ethanol which is further processed ...
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has initiated the process to set up a polypropylene and polyethylene plant in the Koko Free Trade Zone (FTZ) by appointing a team for preliminary site inspection. This was disclosed by the Delta state ...
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Most of the fully automatic swing doors can be found in shopping centers, hospitals, offices, and supermarkets. Homeowners usually use these doors in their garage. The door will automatically open and it is very applicable to accommodate ...
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Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a project management and consultancy (PMC) services contract by the Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Limited Liability ...
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