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May 07-Lanxess and Taiwan s TSRC Corporation will enter into a 50:50 joint venture in China that will produce Nitrile Rubber (NBR) in Nantong, northwest of Shanghai. The ?6m plant will have an initial capacity of 30,000 tonnes per year, and is due on stream in early 2012. The two ...
BEIJING: La Mer, the premium skincare brand, has just changed its logo from the traditional pink to blue - the color of the sea - to coordinate with its green program of ocean protection. It is also a branding move to highlight the luxury cosmetic product's natural characteristic...
JAKARTA, May 11 - An Indonesia official of the Environment Ministry said Tuesday that there is no compromise in protecting environment and oil-gas companies must adhere to regulations to avoid sanctions. Ilyas Asaad, a deputy of Environment Minister for Environment Management, ...
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Xinhua) -- A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York will send an army of microorganisms into space this week, to investigate new ways of preventing the formation and spread of biofilms, or clusters of bacteria, that could pose a ...
May 11-Lucite International has been nominated for a MacRobert Award for its Alpha process that removes much of the toxic chemicals from production processes of acrylic plastic. The awards, which were first presented in 1969, honour the winning organisation with a gold medal, and ...
May 11-After five long years, many residents on the Gulf Coast of the US are still struggling to get back on their feet following the pounding devastation of Hurricane Katrina and are concerned about what the elements might dish out this hurricane season. To help, Sabic working ...
May 11-The UK s latest training academy for the polymer industry is officially opening its doors this May. The Polymer Training and Innovation Centre (PTIC), based in Telford, is being officially opened on 18 May by Philip Jones, chief executive of the National Skills Academy ...
LONDON May 11-LANXESS swung to a net profit of ?04m ($133m) in the first quarter of 2010 from a loss of ?4m in the same period last year as its synthetic rubber business benefited from strong demand in China and Brazil, the specialty chemicals company said on Tuesday. Sales ...
VIENNA, May 10 - The weekly average oil prices of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) dropped sharply last week, falling by 2.45 U.S. dollars to 80.91 dollars per barrel compared to the previous week, the Vienna-based cartel said Monday. Except for a slight ...
May 09-Plastics Color Corporation (PCC), a leading supplier of color concentrates and additive masterbatches for the plastics industry, today announced plans to open a fourth plant. The new plant, to be located in the Southern California community of Sun Valley, will be modeled ...
SINGAPORE ,May 19-US president Barack Obama was strongly pushing on Wednesday for new legislation to ensure that BP fully shoulders the cost of ongoing Gulf oil spill containment and clean-up operations, expressing dismay that the bill had stalled in the Senate. The Obama ...
May 19-The era of Chinese plastics machinery is arriving, and nobody can deny that. That s according to Mark Miao, who sold his Avian (Shanghai) Machinery to Sweden s Rapid Granulator last year and has since stayed in the company as the general manager. Operated as an independent ...
May 19-Italian high pressure hose maker, TeknoHose, is setting up a new manufacturing plant in Macedonia. The company expects to invest ?0m in the plant over five years, which will employ 150 in a development zone around Skopje. At a press conference, Andrea Vitillo, owner of the ...
May 19-US bioplastics producer Telles a joint venture between bioplastics technology company Metabolix and agri-products group Archer Daniels said that two of its Mirel injection moulding resins have gained FDA approval for certain food contact applications. The FDA has cleared ...
May 18-Salazar testified at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing about the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, BP Plc a drilling rig, four weeks ago that caused a massive oil spill deep in the Gulf. He said offshore drilling was vital to meeting U.S. energy ...
May 19-United Polymers, the UK's largest supplier of Aquafil technopolymers, has gone from "strength to strength" since taking on the distribution of the Aquafil brand. "We've increasing volume and customers, enhancing the Aquafil brand in the UK," said Raj Sanghera, managing ...
May 18-"I am disappointed that an effort to ensure that oil companies pay fully for disasters they cause has stalled in the United States Senate on a partisan basis," the Democratic president said in a statement. "This maneuver threatens to leave taxpayers, rather than the oil ...
May 18-Eastman Chemical is looking to buy as well as sell, as the 90-year-old firm reshapes itself for 2010 and beyond, according to president and CEO Jim Rogers. Company executives, civic officials, media and a few customers gathered at the company s massive Kingsport headquarte...
May 20-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne promised on 19 May to cut corporate tax rates, with a view to tempting back companies that have left Britain for fiscal reasons. The Chancellor told the annual Confederation of British Industry (CBI) dinner that he would cut ...
May 18-The latest Insolvency Index from Experian has revealed a year-on-year fall in UK business insolvencies during April. The total number fell by 15.1%, from 2,274 in April 2009 to 1, 818 in April 2010. Rolf Hickmann, managing director of pH, an Experian company, said: Our ...
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