Dow and Crystalsev to Make Polyethylene from Sugar Cane Ethanol in Brazil
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The Dow Chemical Company, the world’s largest producer of polyethylene, and Crystalsev, one of Brazil’s largest ethanol players, plan to form a joint venture to manufacture polyethylene from sugar cane ethanol. With production expected to start in 2011, the plant will have an annual capacity of 350,000 metric tons. The new facility will use ethanol with Dow’s proprietary technology to manufacture DOWLEXT polyethylene resins—the raw material required to make polyethylene, the world’s most widely-used plastic. At a molecular level, the joint venture’s product will be identical to the DOWLEXT polyethylene resins manufactured at other Dow facilities. The new material is...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:29:18 AM
Highway robbers show leap of inspiration
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing police have detained a gang of thieves who pulled off a high-speed, highway heist straight out of a Hollywood action movie. Police patrolling a Beijing freeway saw several people "surfing" on top of a van as it pulled alongside a truck loaded with cargo, the Beijing News said Friday. "The men leapt from the van onto the truck's trailer and started throwing back bags of a white-colored substance" into the moving van, the paper said. After several kilometres, the men leapt back on to the van and sped away. Police later intercepted the van, the thieves...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:29:18 AM
Engineers and terrorists
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A quiet terrorist victory, one which has completely escaped the notice of the mainstream press, is affecting your life. It has significance in both practical and symbolic terms. In the short run there is little we can do about it. But in the long run the factors propelling the terrorists' triumph contain the seeds of their defeat. Do these names mean anything to you? Stephen LaGuardia, 62, and Philip Coplen, 53, Americans; Michael Hardy, 44, and Michael McGillen, 52, Britons; Anthony Mason, 57, Australian. You might have a vague memory of five Western engineers killed last May in Saudi Arabia....
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:29:18 AM
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