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Wind blades and towers are often subjected to corrosive and erosive environments owing to their placement amid harsh conditions on land and at sea.

• Coatings

Antimicrobial Coatings Market was valued at $121.0 million in 2016, and is estimated to reach $345.5 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 16.3% during the forecast period.

• Antimicrobial
• Coatings
• Non-metallic

Japanese speciality chemical company Nicca Chemical Co Ltd (Japan) said they have signed a long-term, business alliance agreement with Resil Chemicals Pvt Ltd for joint development and marketing of products.

• Textile

Plastics are incredibly useful materials with extremely diverse properties, allowing a multitude of different applications that benefit our lives.

• Plastics

Liu Binjiang, director of the Atmosphere Environment Management Department, said, “According to a large-scale investigation involved ove...

• Gas

Earlier, the Punjab government had imposed a ban on the sale, import and export of Ajinomoto salt in January.

• Ban
• Import
• Chinese Salt

While GDP is still important in terms of the scale of an economy, China has other indicators to account for growth quality including env...

• China
• Economy
• Growth

The critter’s body heat was all but invisible by thermal imaging, whether the background temperature was 40 degree Celsius, 15 degree Ce...

• Fiber
• Hair

In terms of contracts for future delivery, the month saw closing of several contracts, to be shipped this semester (cotton from the 2016...

• Cotton
• Brazilian

With the addition of the allowed ‘947 application, the company has been granted 4 US patents on its fiberTyping technology, which now co...

• Fiber
• Cotton

Besides, IOC plans to raise capacity of its Panipat refinery in Haryana to 25-mtpa from current 15-mtpa while Koyali refinery in Gujarat...

• IOC
• Oil

In-cosmetics Global, the leading personal care ingredients expo, which opens on April 17 in Amsterdam, is set to feature a number of new initiatives on the show floor.

• Cosmetics

Extreme cold and snow pushing across Europe has impacted on chemical sector logistics and some production across the continent, according to sources on Thursday.

• Weather

Spain’s relative insulation from the current European cold snap has upturned the usual European gas hub price hierarchy and opened up new arbitrage opportunities between Iberia and the rest of the continent.

• Gas

Prompt and summer natural gas delivery prices are likely to rise further in the coming month as Europe looks set to end the gas winter with very low levels of gas in storage.

According to the HCM City Association of Garment and Textile (AGTEK), garment-textile firms have had enough purchase orders for the firs...

• Vietnam
• Textile
• Garment

The report, by using the same Fed forecasts released in December, stated that Fed officials expect three interest rate hikes this year.

• U.S.
• Fed
• Interest
• Economy

As a healthcare executive long involved in supply-chain procurement for hospitals, I've been flooded with calls from hospital CEOs asking why so many of the pharmaceuticals they need to deliver care are so difficult to secure in sufficient quantities.

• Healthcare

Pharmaceutical chemicals are the basic chemical products that are used in manufacturing of pharmaceutical drugs. These are considered as the key chemicals in drug formulations.

• Pharmaceutical

Global funding to revolutionise waste management in the world's worst polluting countries could clean up ocean plastic by 77% by 2025.

• Plastics