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...It was notable that the Office for Budget Responsibility did not adjust it’s Brexit impacts forecast this week; while last week the National Institute of Economic and Social Research published an updated...
...Last month, more than 180 countries agreed to tougher rules for shipping non-recyclable plastic waste across national borders....
...Titomic’s technology was co-developed with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia’s national science agency....
...Selling the unit is an essential for Akzo as steers its business towards paints and coatings, analysts said....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 24. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...As part of its defence against PPG, Akzo pledged to separate its speciality chemicals division, leaving a core business focused on paints and coatings....
...News of the bid emerged just days before national elections....
...Paint volumes grew 3 per cent last year, coatings were flat....
...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....
...The Netherlands-based company, whose products range from protective coatings for iPhones to industrial paints, and PPG have been working with advisers to carry out what would be one of the largest cross-border...
...Akzo Nobel’s performance coatings division has suffered from tough conditions in the marine and oil and gas industries....
...The two companies have been selected from a shortlist of seven — which included Bombardier, Siemens and Electro-Motive Diesel — to supply at least 1,800 diesel and electric locomotives over 11 years from...
...They’re missing out on their opportunity,” says Satoshi Kurihara, a former researcher at NTT and an AI expert at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo....
...The US Food and Drug Administration has declared the problem a “national epidemic”....
...Confidentiality, and protection from law enforcement agencies, is guaranteed by the FDA and the National Institutes of Health....
...So far, it is mainly used in electro and thermally conductive inks and coatings....
...Slips, developed by Joanna Aizenberg and her team at Harvard university, is a revolutionary technology that uses liquids as a surface coating to reduce drag....
...Mr Danzik suggests a cost of 1-8 cents per gallon for its electro-catalytic process, compared to about 22-24 cents for rival methods....
...Boeing’s fix for the battery will wrap each of the battery’s eight cells in a new coating and improve insulation of wires in the battery....
...EcoClean, as the coating is called, cleans not only itself but the air around it. The key ingredient in EcoClean is titanium dioxide....
...The company reduced its net debt from €1.74bn to €936m, mainly due to the sale of National Starch to Corn Products International in June, which generated €1bn in cash....
...The company organised a virally advertised, VIP-only concert with Chromeo, an irony-laden and trendy electro-funk band from Montreal which set local music blogs abuzz....
...Among the rappers, local boys Kano and Bashy ignite “White Flag”, with help from the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music....
...But there’s no chocolate coating the fact that too hard a line on tax would risk driving more companies offshore. andrew.hill@ft.com...
...Akzo Nobel acquired National Starch when it agreed to buy ICI for £8bn in 2007 and immediately identified it as one of several ICI operations it wanted to divest because it fell outside its focus on coatings...
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