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p> Dow Automotive announced two new appointments in its Euro pean sales organisation. Klaus Rudert has been named Sales Director for plastics for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Rudert will be responsible for the PU, epoxy systems and elastomers businesses in those regions. He ...
May 24-The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has reacted to the publication of the full coalition agreement between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. Its initial impression is that thousands of smaller businesses could benefit from many of the measures outlined so far. ...
WASHINGTON ,May 24-US officials said on Monday they are not satisfied that BP has adequately examined oil dispersants that are less toxic than those now being used in the Gulf of Mexico spill and have ordered independent testing to find better alternatives. Environmental ...
SINGAPORE ,May 24-Asian ethylene and propylene spot prices may face further downside after plummeting to multi-month lows last week, amid weak conditions in key derivatives market and a slump in values of feedstock naphtha, market players said on Monday. With naphtha prices ...
A discovery of a huge number of soft-bodied marine animal fossils is giving these critters a fair shake in the fossil record. Paleontologists found more than 1,500 soft-bodied marine animal fossils, some dating to nearly 500 million years ago. The discovery provides a more ...
BEIJING - PetroChina Co, the nation's largest oil and gas producer, will invest $60 billion to increase its overseas oil and gas output to 200 million tons every year, Chairman Jiang Jiemin said on Thursday. Jiang told reporters that the company's overseas oil and gas cooperation ...
HOUSTON, May 20 (Xinhua) -- British oil company BP said Thursday a tube inserted into an undersea gusher over the weekend was now siphoning 5,000 barrels of oil a day, but a video showed crude continuing to leak from the ruptured well. "The oil plume escaping from the riser pipe ...
GUANGZHOU, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Seawater pollution remains serious in the coastal waters off South China's Guangdong Province, where the marine ecological environment continues to deteriorate, according to local maritime authorities. The seawater quality of the prosperous province ...
BEIJING, May 23-Now that thick amounts of oil have washed up in areas surrounding the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs are pitching their ideas for cleaning up the massive spill. Bob Ozer, a Turkish born, German educated engineer, claims to ...
May 25-U.S. ethylene prices fell in May, with the June New York Mercantile Exchange's (NYMEX) cleared ethylene settling and expiring at $0.40 per pound. The contract, which began trading in July 2009, settled for May last month at $0.50 per pound. Ethylene trades in 100,000-pound ...
HOUSTON , May 20-LyondellBasell today announced that it expects a crude distillation unit at its Houston refinery to be out of service for approximately four weeks to repair damage sustained in a fire on May 17. No other operating units were damaged in the fire, which was ...
May 23-The Middle East will be a leading producer and exporter of plastic resins within the next five years, with polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) capacity in the region slated to more than double by 2015. The Middle East plastics industry is expected to grow 30 per cent...
May 25-Andrew Gibbens, formerly managing director of Motan, has joined Piovan UK to promote its products in the south of the England. The Piovan UK catalogue consists of the complete Piovan range including blending, drying and conveying equipment, temperature control units, ...
May 25-Automotive parts manufacturer Delphi Packard is planning to lay off almost 700 workers at an electrical cable harness production plant at Ceska Lipa in the Czech Republic. The redundancies, representing almost half the workforce at the facility, are set to be made in ...
May 25-The new commission for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square has been unveiled. The work, by leading Anglo-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, features a replica of Nelson s flagship HMS Victory in a plastic bottle measuring 4.7m in length and 2.8m in diameter. The bottle ...
May 25-Vermont has become the sixth state and fourth this year to pass a ban on the use of bisphenol A in baby bottles and sippy cups used by young children. The Vermont bill, signed into law May 20 by Governor Jim Douglas, is viewed by environmental groups as the second-most...
May 24-Elected for a second year of office, the British Plastics Federation's (BPF) president, Paul Jukes, called for a "level playing field" for the plastics industry when speaking at the BPF's 75th AGM. Reporting on a year of strong activity for the BPF, Paul Jukes highlighted ...
May 24-KraussMaffei is set to target high pressure resin injection (RTM) systems at auto manufacturers of CFP parts after signing a sales deal with Germany-based Dieffenbacher. Customers will now have a single source for all elements of turnkey systems, as well as a supplier that ...
May 24-Engineers at Michelin North America have incorporated kitchen-grade sunflower oil in the firm s new luxury touring tyre, the Primacy MXM4. The US-sourced oil accounts for less than 5% of the tyre s materials. Michelin said it uses the cooking-grade oil to improve traction ...
HOUSTON ,May 27-Tight supplies in the US base oil market will likely continue for the next 45-60 days and could worsen if production issues or hurricanes appear, sources said on Wednesday. Hurricane season begins on 1 June, and inventories are far too low to even consider ...
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