Several PE converters in Italy are doing definitely better than the same period of last year, despite the lackluster performance of their end product markets, as per Chemorbis. A buyer who has recently concluded his LDPE agreements with West and Sout……
In Indonesia, distributors and converters report that the market is facing a shortage of promptly-available PE cargoes, driving spot prices for prompt cargoes sharply higher when compared with the past week, as per Chemorbis. Offers for locally-held ……
In Asia, spot ethylene prices have risen by ten dollar in the past week to US$1365/ton CFR Northeast Asia, as per Chemorbis. Since the beginning of the month, spot ethylene prices have risen by US$210/ton, with most of the increase occurring in the e……
A new team of office bearers has been elected at Indian Plastics Federation for the year 2009-2010
Mr. Sourabh Khemani – President
Mr. Rajesh Mohta – Vice President
Mr. R.A. Poddar – Hony. Secretary
Mr. Ashok Jajodia – Hony. Treasurer
Mr. ……
A new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential to be developed as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion — the process that generates the sun’s prodigious output of energy.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/GKv9mwzSSvY” height=”1″ width=”1″/
Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals. The finding, in mice, is expected to advance the understanding of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs, a family of neurodegenerative diseases that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, kuru and fatal familial insomnia in humans, scrapie in sheep, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, also known as “mad cow disease.”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/AJYxTLbnCbw” height=”1″ width=”1″/
After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after efforts during the past several months to free it from a sand trap have been unsuccessful.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/T3LzRqRviLk” height=”1″ width=”1″/
Physical activity appears to be associated with a reduced risk or slower progression of several age-related conditions as well as improvements in overall health in older age, according to several new studies.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/F77L_NLb0HQ” height=”1″ width=”1″/
To what extent does what’s happening in the stratosphere, tens of kilometers above Earth, influence the weather in the troposphere, the layer of atmosphere that touches Earth? Researchers performed a series of forecast experiments using a general circulation model to study the role of the stratosphere in influencing tropospheric weather following sudden stratospheric warming events.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/NiQZnjHQzVQ” height=”1″ width=”1″/
A new study shows doctors work 1.7 hours less per week when medical liability risk increases by 10 percent. Such a decline in hours is the equivalent of one of every 35 physicians retiring without a replacement. Doctors age 55 and older and those with their own practice are more influenced by liability risk.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/uv-B3FvE4t4″ height=”1″ width=”1″/