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  • MG sells $350000000 PET sourcing agreement to Alpek

    May 10, 2013M&G sells $350,000,000 PET sourcing agreement to Alpek S.A.B. de C.V. and Acquires IntegRex PTA Technology License for use in Corpus Christi M&G PTA-PET construction ...

  • Uroplasty To Announce Fiscal Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2013 Financial Results On May 30 2013

    MINNEAPOLIS, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Copyright (C) 2013 PR Newswire. All rights reserved Uroplasty, Inc. (Nasdaq: UPI) announced today that it will release financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2013 at the market close on Thursday, May 30, 2013. The Company will host a conference call and webcast to discuss these results on Thursday, May ...

  • Chemical in Common Plastics Said to Raise Blood Pressure in Children

    Phthalates are chemical additives commonly found in plastic containers. Colorless and odorless, they were previously considered harmless. ...

  • Cereplast Announces New Bioplastic Resin Grade With 51 Algae Biomass

    Apr 30, 2013 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- (C)1994-2013 M2 COMMUNICATIONS EL SEGUNDO, Apr 30, 2013 -- Cereplast, Inc. (OTCQB:CERP) (the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of proprietary biobased, compostable and sustainable bioplastics, today announced a new bioplastic resin grade Biopropylene(R) A150D, an injection molding grade manufactured with 51% post-industrial algae ...

  • Stepan Announces Agreement To Acquire North American Polyester Resins Business From Bayer

    NORTHFIELD, Ill., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Copyright (C) 2013 PR Newswire. All rights reserved Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL) today reported that it has reached an agreement with Bayer MaterialScience to acquire their North American Polyester Resins business, including the production facility located in Columbus, Georgia. Bayer MaterialScience is a leading producer of Powder ...


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Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) [DVD]

Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) [DVD]

Pioneering French writer/director Ren Clair was always a great populist. He believed that motion pictures should be a popular art form and that they should reflect the lives of the public. He didnt buy into the notion of a cinema of ideas, in which film was conceived of as a visual essay meant to propagate a particular ideology, which is probably why he was treated so harshly by the influential c ... ...

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  • LyondellBasell European Restructuring to Include HDPE Unit in Germany

    ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Copyright (C) 2013 PR Newswire. All rights reserved LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced that it will shut down a high density polyethylene (HDPE) unit in Wesseling, Germany in the third quarter of 2013. The 100 KT per year unit is among the smallest and least efficient of the LyondellBasell HDPE units in Europe. The company ...

  • Tredegar to Webcast Annual Meeting of Shareholders

    RICHMOND, Va., May 15, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Copyright Business Wire 2013 Tredegar Corporation (NYSE:TG) announced that it will webcast its 2013 annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. EDT from the Westwood Club in Richmond, Virginia. To listen to the annual meeting and view the slide presentation, go to the company's website -- www.tredegar.com -- ...

  • Refiners benefit from domestic oil boom

    May 10, 2013 (The Oklahoman - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Copyright (C) 2013, The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City The flood of domestic oil produced over the past five years has boosted jobs, royalty payments and contributions to tax ...

  • Mexichem to buy affiliate of U.S. firm PolyOne for $250 mn

    Mexico City, May 18, 2013 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Copyright (C) 2013. Agencia EFE S.A. Mexichem, one of the leading companies of the Latin American chemical and petrochemical industry, announced that the cost of purchasing 100 percent of the PVC Specialty Resins business of the U.S. firm PolyOne will amount to $250 ...

  • Plastic bag ban gets endorsement of city committeee

    May 14, 2013 (The Santa Fe New Mexican - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Copyright (C) 2013, The Santa Fe New Mexican A plan to limit distribution of plastic shopping bags in Santa Fe won the endorsement of a city advisory committee ...

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