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Technology company Freudenberg is expanding its business in the food industry, specifically in confectionery. Capol of Elmshorn, Germany, a company belonging to the Freudenberg Chemical Specialities Business Group, has announced the acquisition of Colarôm

• Food Additives
• Freudenberg

Augusta Fiberglass Coatings Inc. announced Wednesday an expansion that will add 12,000 square feet and a dozen new workers to its 230-employee operation in Barnwell County.

• Augusta
• Coatings
• Expand

Successful aseptic presentation of medical devices can be impacted by package design and material selection. Adhesive coatings can have an impact, reports Oliver Healthcare Packaging.

• Coating
• Sterile
• Adhesives

Negotiations over prices of European polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for October shipments to the CIS markets were held last week with most producers further raising export values, according to the ICIS-MRC Price report.

• PVC

The Paris-headquartered International Energy Agency (IEA) sees roughly balanced oil markets next year if OPEC production remains unchanged and weather conditions remain normal, it said on Thursday.

• Oil

China's GDP accounted for 14.8 percent of the world's total in 2016, up by 3.4 percentage points from 2012, said Ning Jizhe, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, on Tuesday

• GDP
• China

OPEC is courting US shale oil producers and other crude-producing nations to join the oil cartel to restore equilibrium price in the market,

• OPEC
• Oil

Global chemical production prolongs its economic growth within August, seeing an upsurge in production amid the impact of the devastating Hurricane Harvey, according to the latest monthly report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC).

• Global
• Chemical

The Tata Strategic Management Group presented a report on Indian chemicals industry at the 5th edition of ‘India Chem Gujarat 2017.

• Indian

A solution is defined as a mixture of two or more substances with uniform chemical and physical properties. Every solution consists of two basic components as solvent and solute.

• Green
• Solvent

Most of the fuel additive ethanol used in the US is made from corn. But new research reveals that copper can turn carbon dioxide into ethanol without using corn or other plants.

• Fuel

Researchers have reported a unique plasma synthesis process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals

• Liquid
• Fuels

The global electronic chemicals market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 6.33 percent, in value terms, during 2017 – 2026, according to a report by TechSci Research.

• Electronic

Paving the way for flexible electronics, Stanford chemical engineers have developed a plastic electrode that stretches like rubber but carries electricity like wires.

• Plastic
• Electrode

Songwon Industrial Co Ltd has introduced HI-THANE A-890K, an aliphatic, solvent based polyurethane ink binder for use in the manufacture of gravure printing inks for a variety of laminates.

• Songwon

AATCC, the world’s leading not-for-profit association serving textile professionals, and SGIA (Specialty Graphic Imaging Association), have announced that they have gathered some of the biggest names in the industry for the Digital Textile Printing ...

• Textile
• Printing

Teijin Limited has announced that Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., the Teijin group’s fibre-product converting firm, and Nantong Teijin Co., Ltd.

• Intertextile
• Fabrics

Since 1st October 2017, China's polyester capacity is adjusted to 47.15 million mt/year after Yisheng Hainan started its 250kt/year PET bottle chip unit in September.

• Polyester
• China

In an effort to revive the Egypt’s rewarding cotton industry that can help its stagnant economy, the farmers enlarge the area planted with cotton. Farmers at Fayoum province,

• Egypt
• Cotton
• Export

Plastic Recyclers Europe has slammed the European Parliament’s drat report on regulation of fertilisers.

• Plastic
• Film