The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI) is organising SITEX, a textile machinery exhibition from April 10-13, 2015 at the Surat International Exhibition and Convention Centre (SIECC). There are more than 150 ...
As an industry, manufacturing has multiple ways of defining hazards and even more ways of communicating about those hazards. Designed to create a worldwide standard, the Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of ...
The Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), a U.S. Department of Energy-Energy Frontier Research Center led by the University of Delaware, has announced a two-year program with ExxonMobil to research renewable chemicals from biomass. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals
The petrochemical industry of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has taken positive steps towards achieving environmental sustainability over the last two years, said Abdulwahab Al Sadoun, secretary general, of the Gulf ...
Tags: Petrochem Sector, Textile
Textile chemicals have symbiotic relationship with the textile industry, hence growth in textiles market coupled with growing textile trade is anticipated to positively influence the textile chemicals market in India. For the production of ...
Tags: Textile Chemicals Market, Textile
BASF India Limited today celebrated the launch of its precious metal-based fine chemical catalysts production plant and product development laboratory at the Company's operating site in Mangalore, India. The plant is BASF's first precious ...
Ashland Water Technologies, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., and Dorf Ketal Chemicals, LLC, a specialty chemicals company serving the downstream refining and petrochemical industries, announced they have entered a strategic distribution ...
Ravi Sethi of ProcurianRaw material costs as a percentage of plastic packaging costs have been on a steady rise due to the long-term appreciation in crude oil prices, a key ingredient for resins. Crude oil prices have increased five-fold ...
The Qualifying Renewable Chemical Production Tax Credit Act of 2013 has been introduced by the new legislation to reduce taxes for producers of renewable chemicals in the US. The act also provides the renewable chemical producers with ...
The relentless rise in raw materials costs, which has been hitting European coatings producers over the last 2-3 years, has at last been easing. But the relief from the constant pressure of rising input prices may be short lived. The ...
Tags: raw materials costs, European coatings producers, input prices
Renewable chemicals producer Verdezyne Inc., Carlsbad, Calif., has formed a strategic partnership with Universal Fiber Systems LLC (UFS), Bristol, Va., and its operating companies Universal Fibers Inc. and Premiere Fibers Inc. under which ...
Tags: Carlsbad, biobased adipic acid, application
The European Union’s controversial REACH legislation on the safety of chemicals has been challenging chemical producers and their raw material suppliers since it came into effect five years ago. Initially the major concern was that ...
Tags: European Union, chemicals, coatings sector
Verdezyne Inc. — a Carlsbad, Calif.-based producer of renewable chemicals — has formed a strategic partnership with Bristol, Va.-based Universal Fiber Systems LLC (UFS) and its operating companies Universal Fibers Inc. and ...
Tags: Textile World, Biobased Adipic Acid, Textile, textile applications
Premiere Fibers, a global industry leader in the development and production of specialized performance fine denier yarns for branded apparel and technical fabric applications, announced it has entered into a strategic relationship with ...
Tags: branded apparel, technical fabric applications, Premiere Fibers, Fibers
The European coatings sector is being confronted with one of its most difficult challenges in the communication of safety information to its customers and other paint users. This communications problem stems from the ...
Tags: coatings sector, European, REACH