LyondellBasell issued a force majeure declaration on vinyl acetate monomer and glacial acetic acid supplies from its La Porte, Texas, facility after a turnaround revealed equipment issues, the company said in a letter to customers seen by ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reached a defense production milestone, completing the Defense Production Act Title III Gallium Nitride on Silicon Carbide (GaN ...
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A fire broke out Thursday morning at CMC’s Seguin, Texas facility, centralized in an outdoor pile of scrap metal. The dimensions of the pile, spreading across about one acre but is 30-40 feet deep according to officials, made the fire ...
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Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) announced plans to again expand 2-EH capacity at its Longview, Texas, site. The expansion will increase capacity by approximately 20,000 metric tons per year. The company expects to complete the expansion ...
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The US acrylonitrile export assessment rose $25/mt week over week Tuesday to a more than 11-month high of $1,940/mt FOB US Gulf Coast on continued tight supply. The assessment reached its highest level since March 5, 2013, when it was at ...
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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (Nasdaq:PPC) today announced several operational changes to improve efficiencies as part of its goal to generate approximately $200 million in savings in 2014. Effective January 24, 2014, Pilgrim's will expand ...
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When you test the softness of a cashmere Brunello Cucinelli pullover or try on a pair of knee high boots from Manolo Blahnik, it's easy to forget that luxury retailers face the same distribution issues as mass merchandise merchants. They ...
Dow Chemical Companywill increase its polyol and copolymer capacity at its Freeport, Texas facilities as a result of debottlenecking. "Dow is constantly evolving our technologies to help our customers grow," said Mark Bassett, global ...
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INVISTA announced that it is considering new, combined hydrogen and a hydrous ammonia manufacturing unit—valued at more than $500 million—within the existing footprint of the company’s nylon intermediates production ...
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Specialty bedding producer Dormeo Octaspring is adding a manufacturing operation to its facility here, the company announced. Dormeo said it has invested more than $500,000 to retrofit its 30,000-square-foot facility with new ...
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LyondellBasell is dropping plans to expand a metathesis unit to boost propylene production at its Channelview, Texas, facility, and will instead focus its efforts on debottlenecking projects at its ethylene units, company CEO Jim Gallogly ...
Samsung’s recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market, analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM’s first ...
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Sealed Air’s Ethafoam maximum recycled content (MRC) and Ethafoam (high recycled content) HRC polyethylene foams that are produced in the Grand Prairie, Texas facility in the US have received Recycled Material Content certification ...
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Samsung's recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market,analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM's first 64-bit Cortex-A57 ...
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Eastman Chemical has begun shutting down its No.4 ethylene cracker at its Longview, Texas facility for planned maintenance, overhaul and repair operations. The planned turnaround at the around 270,000 tons per annum ethylene plant is ...
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