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Every October, KI Industries Inc. of Berkeley, Ill., commemorates Employee Ownership Month, recognized by the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) Association, with contests, games, barbecue cookouts, prizes, food, fun and more.

• Plastics
• People
• Employees

In a flurry of financial reports, Chinese and Asian plastics firms are posting generally solid results. While noting some challenges in China's economy and trade friction with the U.S., the companies were generally touting good returns on the back of...

• China
• Asia
• Reports
• Plastics

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• Echemi
• Daily

In terms of the gasoline market, with the approach of the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday, most market participants will stock up, lifting the...

• China
• Refined Oil

A trade war between the United States and China would ultimately hurt the very people President Donald Trump says he's aiming to protect, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist.

• Trade War
• China
• US

Syngenta and Strider announced recently that Syngenta has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Strider, a Brazilian agtech company focused on operational management solutions for farms.

• Syngenta
• Strider

Currently, the country's financing regulators are "proactively and steadily promoting further opening up of the banking sector", and new...

• Belt and Road

6,000 employees in China and 60,000 stores in China," he said, adding business volume in China is about $4 billion, plus an additional $...

• Trade
• Friction

Trump's moves "are likely to lead to retaliation by China," and the Asian country as the world's second largest economy has "a wide rang...

• Tariffs
• U.S.
• China

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• Echemi
• Daily

Washington's proposed tariffs of as much as $60 billion against Chinese goods have sparked fears of a trade war but the tax measure isn't set in stone, said the CEO of one of the world's biggest private equity firms.

• US
• China
• Tariffs
• Trade War

The planned Phase III construction includes two 200,000 cbm storage tanks, and the final receiving capacity will reach 10 Mtpa by 2023 a...

• Terminal
• LNG

The enterprises participated in the call auction were as follows: China National United Oil, Unipec Asia, CNOOC Petrochemical Import & E...

• Glencore
• Crude

Sika is pushing ahead with the significant expansion of its plant in Bac Ninh in northern Vietnam. A state-of-the-art facility for mortar production has come on stream alongside the existing production of concrete admixtures.

• Sika

Dr Sam Orach, the head of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau, urged the private sector to invest in the health sector to supplement gove...

• Uganda
• Drugs
• Import

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• Echemi
• Daily

China has retaliated against Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium by signalling that it will hit US goods such as pork, apples and steel pipe with higher duties.

• Trade War
• China
• US

Pakistan succeeded in achieving a record high power production from environment-friendly sources – gas and re-gasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) – in February 2018 after launching LNG-based projects and enhancing supply of imported gas in the country.

• Pakistan
• Gas

Science needs a champion, this is the conclusion that American multinational science firm, 3M, has come to following analysis from its first annual State of Science Index (SOSI), a global study exposing the general population’s attitudes towards science.

• Science
• 3M

Following the acquisition of Plascoat Systems Limited, Axalta Coating Systems will be presenting a comprehensive portfolio of thermoplastic powder coatings at this year’s Wire, which takes place April 16-20 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

• Axalta