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The Construction Chemicals Manufacturers’ Association (CCMA) recently organised the 3rd edition of ‘International Conference of Suppliers to Construction Chemicals Industry of India (SCC)’ in Mumbai. The event brought together key technical and ...

• CCMA
• Mumbai

Avantor, the US-based supplier of high-performance chemistries and materials under several brand names, including the ‘J.T.Baker’, ‘NuSil’, ‘Rankem’, among others, has announced that the National Safety Council in India (NSC) has its cGMP manufacturing...

• Avantor
• India
• Manufacturing

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• Echemi
• Daily

The company has a recognised procedure for tracking the use of renewable raw materials throughout the production process as far as the end product.

• WACKER
• Silicone
• Methanol

Jeen International has launched Jeechem NDA, a new emollient that acts as a functional replacement for synthetic, petrochemical-derived alkanes.

• Jeen
• Alkane

The quest to produce quality bottles with greater precision and speed is being met with investment and innovation by blow molding machine manufacturers.

• NPE2018
• Molding

NPE2018 will feature new products from many compounders, including Star Plastics Inc. and Polymer Resources Ltd.

• NPE2018
• Plastics

Thermoplastic elastomers makers Kraiburg TPE and Elastocon TPE technologies Inc. — as well as specialty resin maker Sekisui Plastics USA — will be at NPE2018 with new materials.

• NPE2018
• TPE

Drink in this news: The 2018 student design for the Flexible Packaging Association's 2018 challenge came from two Iowa State University students who came up with a better way to package gelatin shots.

• PET
• Foil
• Polyethylene

The company says ExoShield increases a windshield's impact resistance by six times and blocks 99.9 percent of ultraviolet radiation, protecting a passenger's or driver's skin as well as the vehicle's interior.

• Nanocomposite
• Windshield

Oil prices dipped on Tuesday, easing after strong gains in the previous session when hopes that trade disputes between the United States and China could be resolved buoyed global markets.

• Oil
• Price
• Trade War

A report released by the Oil Companies Advisory Council (OCAC) for the year 2016-17 revealed Pakistan’s petroleum productions consumption grew by 9.64 percent compared to 2015-16.

• Pakistan
• Oil

Jononov added Tajikistan had electricity in abundance, which could be exported to Pakistan for meeting its energy requirements.

• Pakistan
• Energy
• Tajikistan

The dispute between the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) and oil industry has intensified after the latter refused to pay the annual fee until a proper notification gets issued on fee structure agreement reached in June 2017.

• OGRA
• Oil
• Pakistan

Oil markets rose for a second day on Tuesday, with Brent rising above $69 per barrel on hopes a trade dispute between the United States and China, the world’s two biggest crude consumers, may be resolved without greater damage to the global economy.

• Brent
• crude oil
• Trade War

Bangladesh and India signed an agreement here on Monday on the proposed 130km oil pipeline aimed at pumping Indian oil to Bangladesh with a capacity of 1 million tonnes per annum.

• India
• Bangladesh

To bolster its power generation capacity to cope with the present power crisis, the government has decided to revive two defunct power units having 2,500 megawatts of capacity by utilizing re-gasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) for generation.

• Pakistan
• RLNG

On Apr 11, 30,017.02 tons of Xinjiang cotton and 22,105.90 tons of upcountry cotton.

• Cotton
• Auctions

AstraZeneca has bought rights to an experimental antisense therapy from Ionis Pharmaceuticals, in a deal that could be worth more than $300 million.

• NASH
• AZ

The North Carolina-based firm had been trying a different approach than the big pharma companies and had attempted to inhibit a protein called Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts (RAGE).

• vTv
• Azeliragon