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Ten years after the company was formed, InProcess Instruments has now also established a strong sales partnership in Russia with the SibAnalytService company in Krasnoyarsk. Alexej Veselov, the managing director at SibAnalytService Ltd., has been active for many years in ...
HELSINKI -- Finnish biggest refiner Neste Oil Corporation said in a statement on Monday that the company will make a joint venture with Bahrain's oil companies to build a lubricant base oil facility in Bahrain. The agreement had been reached among Finnish Neste company, Bahrain's ...
A project planned to develop a bioplastic from non-food-based cellulosic biomass afor use in vehicles by 2013 is being planned in Japan. Mazda Motor Corporation has signed a collaborative research agreement with Hiroshima University to launch the Mazda Bioplastic Product. The ...
SINGAPORE - Oil prices eased further below $135 a barrel on Monday as Saudi Arabia prepared to push production to its highest rate in decades to help keep pace with demand and tame what it sees as unacceptably high prices. U.S. light, sweet crude for July delivery, which had ...
CARACAS - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez ended days of speculation on Sunday and named Ali Rodriguez, a trusted ally who has also served as head of state oil company PDVSA, to lead the finance ministry. Rodriguez, who was a fighter in the Venezuelan guerrilla movement in the ...
BASF has developed a new class of enzymes that can be utilized for the industrial production of chiral intermediates: these specifically modified biocatalysts, which the companies has patented, are called enoate reductases. The asymmetric bioreactions catalyzed by enoate ...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares are expected to rise on Monday, after losing 7.4 percent last week, following a pullback in crude oil prices on Friday. A statement from the Chinese capital markets regulator saying it was reviewing the possibility of further opening up its markets to ...
Quattor - Brazil's youngest petrochemicals joint venture project has been planned to have installed capacity of 2.8 mln tpa of basic and intermediary petrochemical products and 1.9 mln tpa of resins. Quattor, to come onstream by year-end is a merger of petrochemicals groups ...
Cereplast Inc's bioplastic resin facility at Seymour remains safe from flooding that has been caused by record rainfall in parts of the state leading to evacuation of 100 homes in Seymour this week. Cereplast Inc's bioplastic resin production remains on track to open its Seymour, ...
MADRID - The steep rise in the oil price since early 2007 has been caused by production and refining constraints and prices could rise further, the Governor of the Bank of Spain Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez said on Tuesday. High oil and food prices could cause a wage-price ...
MEXICO CITY - Mexico, the world's No. 10 exporter of crude oil, will send a representative to a meeting of oil producing and consuming countries in Saudi Arabia on June 22 to address sky-high oil prices, an energy ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, the world's top ...
ISFAHAN, Iran - The oil market is plentifully supplied and the rally to record high prices is "fake and imposed", Iran's president said on Tuesday, blaming a weak U.S. dollar which he said was being pushed down on purpose. "At a time when the growth of consumption is lower than ...
NEW YORK - Oil prices slipped from record highs on Tuesday on plans by top exporter Saudi Arabia to increase crude output to help curb soaring fuel costs. The move by the OPEC kingpin came as American and British regulators imposed position limits on U.S. crude contracts on the ...
NEW YORK -- Oil prices dipped slightly Tuesday as the news of future crude supply increase weighed on the market. Light, sweet crude for July delivery fell 60 cents to settle at 134.01 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude futures traded within a narrow ...
LONDON - Any increase in world oil output would not have a significant impact on record-high crude prices that are being driven by speculation, Iraq's oil minister said on Tuesday. Regulations needed to be introduced to stabilize oil markets, Hussain al-Shahristani said in an ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said Monday he could not confirm talk of a 500,000-barrel-per-day increase in oil production by Saudi Arabia, but said he would welcome the move. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said over the weekend that Saudi Arabia, the world's ...
NEW YORK -- Wall Street ended mixed Monday as oil prices retreated from a fresh record high and the quarterly report from Lehman Brothers revived hope for the financial sector. Crude oil prices hit a new record high of 139.89 U.S. dollars a barrel before retreating to settle ...
NEW YORK - Oil prices eased on Monday as top world producer Saudi Arabia appeared poised to boost production to the highest level in decades to ease a record rally that has threatened global economic growth. The dip into negative territory came after a brief surge earlier in the ...
CALGARY, Alberta - A 20 percent increase in China's fuel prices, introduced on Thursday, may allow the country's strapped refiners to boost output, but its booming industrial sector may slow as energy costs rise, an influential energy economist said. Ed Morse, chief energy ...
ABUJA - Militants in speedboats attacked Royal Dutch Shell's main offshore facility in Nigeria on Thursday, cutting the country's oil output by a tenth and raising fears of a new campaign against deepwater installations. The strike on Shell's Bonga field, which lies some 120 km ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...