South Korean tire manufacturer Hankook Tire is set to establish a new $800m tire manufacturing plant in Clarksville, Tennessee, US. This new plant marks the eighth for the company globally and its first in the US. The company will ...
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Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation is planning to soon restart its Kashima, Japan-based No. 2 naphtha cracker following maintenance turnaround. “The cracker is planned to be restarted on October 17, 2013,” a company official ...
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Fortress Paper has concluded its initial strategic evaluation and testing of alternatives for the Fortress specialty cellulose (FSC) mill. Post evaluation, the company has reached to a conclusion that the FSC mill should be operated as a ...
China Petrochemical Development Corporation (CPDC) is expected to shutdown its Acrylonitrile (ACN) plant for maintenance turnaround this month. "The Da-Sheh based ACN plant is expected to remain off-steam for around 15 days from October ...
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Aluminum rolling and recycling firm Novelis has completed the two-year expansion work worth $400m at its Yeongju and Ulsan aluminum rolling mills in South Korea. With the expansion of aluminum rolling mills, the company has increased its ...
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UK-based Corrugated box manufacturer Corrugated Case has announced the replacement of all its existing florescent fittings with LED lighting at its factory to reduce energy costs and Co2 production. The low energy LED luminaires from ...
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US-based Pharmatek has expanded its packaging services with the installation and qualification of an automated bottling line at its cGMP facility located at San Diego in California. The installation of the bottling line, which is slated ...
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Chinese top telecom equipment supplier ZTE Corporation (SEHK: 0763 and SZSE: 000063) planned to become the biggest smart phone supplier in Philippines within three years. A top executive from ZTE in charge of Southeast Asia revealed a ...
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The KYB Americas Corp. manufacturing facility in Franklin, Indiana, will undergo a 45,900 square-foot expansion that will creat 50 jobs. KYB Americas Corp., a subsidiary of global shock, strut and hydraulic component manufacturer KYB ...
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1.Higher heat transfer efficiency As the gap between the two heat transfer pieces is small,it form the membrane flowing so that two fluids have very high velocity.Because the heat transfer surface was pressed into the bump ripple,the ...
Japanese tiremaker Bridgestone has unveiled plans to ramp up production at its facility Pune, Maharashtra, India, by 2015-end, with an investment of INR26bn ($421.2m). Bridgestone India operations managing director Tomio Fukuzumi was ...
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Flowers Foods, a US-based baking company, is set to reopen Hostess Brands' bakery facility, Flowers Baking of Henderson in Henderson, Nevada, by 2013-end. The bakery was shut in November 2012 as part of Old HB's liquidation process, which ...
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Nissan GT-R chief engineer Kinishi Tanuma has revealed the next generation of Nissan’s iconic sports car will be produced in higher volumes than today’s car. Tanuma, who replaced original GT-R chief engineer Kazutoshi Mizuno ...
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China has introduced measures to curb photovoltaic overcapacity while seeking to expand domestic deman. China has put forth new rules to tackle overcapacity in its solar power industry. A document released by the Ministry of Industry and ...
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., the leading developer of advanced spider silk based fibers, announced the launching of the Company’s commercial production program with the recent hatching of its first batch of Monster Silk ...
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