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A massive chemical plant explosion in China Tuesday left at least 16 people dead, six missing and 57 injured, officials said. While the ensuring fire was extinguished by Tuesday evening, firefighters in Yizhou City in Guangzi Zhuang Autonomous Region where the blast occurred said they had been hampered in rescuing plant workers by the flames and threat of toxic fumes, Xinhua reported. Smoke continued to rise from the site as firefighters sifted through the ruins looking for more victims. No...
Tokyo, Aug. 25 (Jiji Press)--Mitsui Chemicals Inc. said Monday it will build a pilot facility that will use carbon dioxide and hydrogen to make methanol, a material for plastics. The company will spend about 1.5 billion yen to build the world's first such pilot facility in its plant in Takaishi, Osaka Prefecture. The new facility will have an annual methanol production capacity of about 100 tons. Construction of the plant will start in October, with its operations to start by the end of...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fec3e2/ethyl_acetate_wor) has announced the addition of the "Ethyl Acetate: World Market Outlook And Forecast" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Ethyl acetate, including Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Latin America. It provides the most complete and current analytical account of the following areas: Ethyl acetate producers, plant-by-plant capacities, supply/demand,...
DEET's not sweet to mosquitoesSpray yourself with a DEET-based insect repellent and the mosquitoes will leave you alone. But why? They flee because of their intense dislike for the smell of the chemical repellent and not because DEET jams their sense of smell, report researchers at the University of California, Davis.Their groundbreaking findings were published Monday, Aug. 18, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)."We found that mosquitoes can smell DEET and they...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b77209/monoethylene_glyco) has announced the addition of the "Monoethylene Glycol: World Market Outlook And Forecast" report to their offering. The report analyzes worldwide markets for Monoethylene Glycol, including Europe, Asia, Middle East, North America and Latin America. It provides the most complete and current analytical account of the following areas: Monoethylene Glycol producers, plant-by-plant capacities,...
By Barry Nelson Government takes tougher measures to reduce lifestyle-related illness such as diabetes, obesity and some forms of cancer, the NHS will become unaffordable. In March, one of the region?s most senior police officers, Michael Craik, Chief Constable of Northumbria, called for greater restrictions on the availability of alcohol, including price rises and a ban on advertising alcoholic drinks. Mr Craik told a regional event aimed at tackling alcohol misuse in the North-East: ?If...
By Jernigan, David Wedekind, Jennifer PEOPLE WERE DRINKING ALCOHOL long before the alcohol industry hooked up with Madison Avenue, but the beer, wine and liquor companies clearly believe advertising affects consumption patterns. Alcohol companies spend close to $2 billion every year advertising in the United States alone. From 2001 to 2007, they aired more than 2 million television ads and published more than 20,000 magazine advertisements. Such heavy advertising inevitably leads to heavy...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f21cb5/the_development_of) has announced the addition of the "The Development of China's Coal-based Alcohol Ether Energy 2008" report to their offering. China's current energy resources are typified by a huge resource of coal, but a shortage of gas and oil. The total reserves of petroleum and natural gas amounted to 15.5 billion barrels and 1.88 trillion cubic meters by the end of 2007, accounting for only 1.3 per cent and...
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Chemical firm Oxiteno S.A. Industria e Comercio (Bela Vista, Brazil), a subsidiary of Ultrapar Participacoes SA (NYSE:UGP) (Sao Paulo, Brazil), plans to invest about $32.4 million in a new acetate production plant in the municipality of Maua in Sao Paulo. The company will add 40,000 tons per year to its current output, almost doubling its volume of acetates. For details, view the entire article by subscribing to Industrial Info's...
By Ryan Robinson Some pesticides very commonly used by homeowners and farmers alike may not be as safe as previously thought. A first-time analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data by the Center for Public Integrity found certain pesticides believed to be not nearly as toxic as most actually cause a high percentage of poisonings and some deaths. CPI reviewed the past 10 years' worth of more than 90,000 adverse- reaction reports filed with the EPA by pesticide manufacturers. The center...
