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America’s top-rated pet insurance provider, Petplan, warns against top holiday health hazards. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) October 17, 2011 While Halloween can be fanciful fun for adults and children, it can be especially scary for four-legged family members. Here’s a nasty number: Petplan claims data reveals a 284 percent increase in claims filed for candy-related pet health issues and emergencies during Halloween week. This year, a record 161 million Americans will...
CMT’s PET Outlook 2012 promises to be an exciting event with industry players analyzing rise in PET prices, R-PET collection rates and green PET potential. Bangkok,Thailand (PRWEB) October 12, 2011 The PET global outlook is bright – with rise in production capacities and announcement of new plants. But this presents new challenges to PET producers, suppliers and manufacturers who now face increasing feedstock prices and limited availability of R-PET. Among the important...
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on long fiber thermoplastics. Global consumption in the long fiber thermoplastics (LFT) market is forecast to reach over 313.4 thousand tons by the year 2017, encouraged primarily by myriad applications in the automotive industry. Revival of the auto industry after a recession-induced hiatus has been instrumental in driving growth in the LFT composites market, particularly in the manufacture of reinforced structural and...
DALLAS, October 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The report "Global Lactic Acid & Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) Market by Applications and Potential Opportunities (2011-2016) [http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/polylacticacid-387.html ]" defines and segments the global lactic acid and polylactic acid market with analysis and forecasts of the global volumes and revenues for lactic acid and PLA. It also identifies driving and restraining factors for the global lactic acid and...
BEIJING, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: FFHL) ("Fuwei Films" or the "Company"), a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality BOPET plastic films in China, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fuwei Films (Shandong) Co., Ltd. ("Shandong Fuwei") has recently received three utility patents in August 2011 from the Ministry of State Intellectual Property Office of PRC. These utility patents relate to anti-condensation...
ANAHEIM, Calif., Sept. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Supporters of the Recycle.Goal. program, including Keep California Beautiful (KCB), LA Galaxy/AEG Worldwide (owner of the Galaxy), Dick's Sporting Goods and America's plastics makers through the American Chemistry Council (ACC), gathered in Anaheim today to celebrate the start of the second year of the Recycle.Goal. challenge, which rewards soccer players for recycling and educates them about the value of doing so. "This competition inspires...
CBS' “The Early Show†features the Hydro Bone hydrating chew toy in a creative piece on Inventionland, where the product was developed. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) September 09, 2011 An already award-winning hydrating chew toy has made another nationally-televised appearance. This time, the Hugs Pet Products’ Hydro Bone appeared in a CBS “Early Show†segment on Davison’s Inventionland, the Pittsburgh-based design facility, where the product was...
Assure Water expands their reach by teaming up with ThirstMonger.com who specializes to development of new innovative brands. Assure Water can is now avialble in the continental 48 United States of America. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 07, 2011 Assure Food and Beverage, a pioneer in good for you good for earth all natural beverages announced an agreement with the Pennsylvania based ThirstMonger to sell Assure On-the-Go healthy water line a functional ready-to-drink healthy water line...
A new physics-based theory could give researchers a deeper understanding of the unusual, slow dynamics of liquids composed of large polymers. This advance provides a better picture of how polymer molecules respond under fast-flow, high-stress processing conditions for plastics and other polymeric materials. Kenneth S. Schweizer, the G. Ronald and Margaret H. Professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, and graduate student Daniel Sussman published their...
HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Management (NYSE: WM) today joined with the City of Houston, local and state officials and WM customers to celebrate the launch of its Houston Material Recovery Facility (MRF), located in Southwest Houston. This 40,000-square-foot facility is one of the most technologically advanced single-stream sorting systems in the country, exemplifying Waste Management's commitment to recovering value from waste materials. (Logo:...
