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p> DSM has opened its first Research & Development (R&D) Center in China. The center is located in Shanghai. The DSM R&D Center China will be the company's main R&D base in the country and will form a vital part of DSM's global R&D network. In addition to carrying out product and ...
p> Sinopec Corp Zhenhai refinery, China's biggest refinery, started formal operation of a long-planned major petrochemical complex on Tuesday, the in-house China Chemical Industry News said on Thursday. The 1-million-tonne-per-year (tpy) ethylene complex, in Zhenhai, Ningbo city, ...
BEIJING, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Beijing prosecutors have approved the arrest of three for involvement in a mercury-poisoning case which was wrongly blamed on a can of Sprite. Xicheng District prosecutors approved the arrest of Ma Sai, 21, in mid-April on suspicion of damaging ...
SHANGHAI - Two of the three executives from Shanghai Panda Dairy Co Ltd who were convicted of selling recycled melamine-tainted milk products last year made a case for leniency at their second trial on Wednesday. The two appealed their sentences after their initial trial last ...
p> Investment in additional production line at Wuxi sitePUWORLD(2010-4-22) LANXESS will expand capacities at its state-of-the-art compounding plant for high-tech plastics in Wuxi, China. The specialty chemicals company will invest in a third production line at the plant, which ...
WASHINGTON, Apr 22- The US Department of Commerce (DOC) will issue countervailing and Anti-dumping tariffs on imports of polyethylene retail carrier bags made in Vietnam. The DOC made the decision based on determinations by the US International Trade Commission (USITC) on April ...
Apr 22-Bioplastics are gaining an increasing share in the mass markets for phone accessories, electronics, household appliances and foodstuffs industries. Industry figures from 2009 showed growth in the Bioplastics sector, and predicted an annual average growth of 13% till 2014. ...
NEW YORK, April 22-Oil prices traded flat on Thursday as the euro fell against the U.S. dollar while the stock market pared earlier losses. The euro dropped to near one-year lows against the U.S. dollar after Moody's cut Greece's sovereign rating. U.S. crude oil inventories rose ...
April 22 -Farmers on the Isle of Man (IoM) will be able to take plastic waste to two drop-off points during May, under a joint scheme of the island's Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture (DEFA) and the Waste Operations Unit of its Department of Infrastructure. Last ...
April 21-China's gasoline and diesel prices may rise in early April, and the increase will probably be within 300 yuan ($44), reported Economic Information Daily. The crude oil prices of Brent, Dubai and Cinta, to which China's oil price is linked, have had daily fluctuations of ...
NEW YORK, April 20 - Oil prices broke a three-day losing streak and rebounded on Tuesday as upbeat earnings reports prompted risk appetite and European flights began to resume. Light, sweet crude for May delivery gained 2 U.S. dollars to settle at 83.45 dollars a barrel on the ...
TOKYO, Apr 16-Production of ethylene, a raw material used to make petrochemical products, jumped 10.7 per cent in fiscal year 2009 to top 7.21 million tons, according to figures released Thursday by the Japan Petrochemical Industry Association. The increase, the first in three ...
p> Asia's biggest oil refiner, China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), reported Monday that it has begun pumping gas through the Sichuan-Shanghai natural gas pipeline. The project, which broke ground in August 2007, was designed to carry 12 billion cubic meters of natural ...
p> Here we go again. On March 22, a scientist at the University of California at Davis pointed out a flaw in "Livestock's Long Shadow," a 2006 report by the United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that attributes 18% of the world's carbon emissions to animal ...
p> Chinese equities rose the most in more than a month Monday led by market heavyweights including China Construction Bank and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. which reported encouraging profits. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed at 3...
TORONTO, March 30 - Toronto's main stock index went for a wobbly ride on Tuesday and ended slightly higher as gains in its heavyweight energy and financial sectors were offset by weaker gold and technology shares. The energy sector, up 1.1 percent, was the biggest gainer as U.S. ...
March 31 - Solar power company Recurrent Energy and managed healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente are teaming up to develop 15 megawatts of solar power projects in California, both companies said on Tuesday. Recurrent Energy will build, own and operate 16 solar power systems across ...
HOUSTON, March 30 - Coal stockpiles at U.S. power plants rose 2.2 percent this week but were 2.6 percent smaller than last year at this time, Genscape said on Tuesday. U.S. generators - which rely on coal to fuel about half of U.S. electricity production - had 58 days worth of ...
YAS ISLAND, Abu Dhabi, March 29 - Iraq's Majnoon oilfield is targeting production of 175,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2012, a senior Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) executive said on Monday. Iraq's largest field is currently pumping at 45,000 boe/d, Shell's Mounir Bouaziz, ...
BEIJING, March 29 - PetroChina aims to produce 10 billion cubic metres of coal seam gas per year from the east part of the Erdos basin by 2020, a senior company official said. Li Jingming, chief geologist at PetroChina's (0857.HK) (601857.SS) Coalbed Methane Unit, was speaking at ...
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