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...The excess capacity has also piled pressure on European and Asian producers facing higher production costs than competitors in North America and the Middle East, which benefit from their access to low-cost...
...By then, though, Foley and his wife Jill had become hooked on the boutique fitness classes that were exploding in America’s coastal cities....
...Hagen, retired President and CEO of Polymer Group, Inc. (later renamed AVINTIV Specialty Materials Inc).Julie A. Hill, owner of The Hill Company....
...One year later PPG Industries, the US manufacturer of coatings and sealants for aircraft and cars, made the first of three offers for Akzo Nobel, the Dutch paintmaker that owns the Dulux brand....
...Sealant Chemical advances have led to meaningful reductions in the weight of sealant used across the airframe....
...The unit – which is described by Honeywell as “a $1.3bn business” – is a leading manufacturer of polymer resin used to produce engineered plastics, fibers, filaments, and films that, in turn, are used in...
...The largest part of the backlog stems from Veritas, a transaction led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, which stalled last November....
...the Manufacturing Technology Centre, said that the ability to blend a range of colours and materials in a single operation could help to drive the material research that will be necessary for full-scale polymer...
...Yields on both investment grade and junk bonds hit their highest level since 2012 this week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch data shows....
...Cargill is one of the biggest cattle processors in North America, producing almost 8bn pounds of boxed beef and byproducts a year, according to its website....
...The data exclude a $440m bond offering from Kraton Polymers, a deal that was pulled in December amid difficult market conditions, to fund its $1.4bn acquisition of Arizona Chemical....
...Meggitt advanced 1 per cent to 509.5p after agreeing to buy Cobham’s polymers and composites division for $200m cash....
...Carbon3D was founded in 2013 by researchers at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University and has raised more than $41m in funding....
...The “special sauce” slathered on the latter, by contrast, reminded me of industrial sealant or prescription salve....
...America – to Petropar of Brazil for £163m in cash and a £16m loan....
...Born from a Bolloré family business that makes ultra-thin plastic films, Blue Solutions has developed a high-power “lithium metal polymer” technology....
...The investment guru’s conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, runs Burlington Northern, owner of a train carrying crude oil that crashed into a derailed vehicle on Monday night in North Dakota....
...A lot of people are switching over,” said a flagman directing traffic as workers coated pipe with steaming buckets of sealant at the terminus last week....
...Sasol still has two thirds of its total assets within sub-Saharan Africa, but is working on further expanding its upstream business in North America and has a Canadian shale gas interest....
...ITW shares rose 3.6 per cent to $59.67....
...Medtronic has already spent money on establishing a presence in China, paying $221m for a 15 per cent stake in Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer in 2007....
...Sintering was initially harder than expected, and to generate some much-needed cash flow EOS based its products on the alternative 3D printing technology of “curing” liquid polymer....
...Aortech is a little AIM-listed specialist in polymer technology, whose main operations are in Minneapolis....
...Wikicells is first focusing on restaurants, serving ice cream, soups and juices contained in his charged-polymer membranes, which were inspired by grape skins. www.wikicells.com 4....
...The polymer, 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, lowers the product’s surface energy, so that liquids form beads upon contact and roll off....
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