Ex-factory prices (no freight) as of September 12th, 2008.
Ex-factory Prices (no Freight) as of September 12th, 2008 Product Manufacturer RMB/t Manufacturer Acetone (industrial grade A) Sinopec Shanghai Gaoqiao 8950 PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical 9010 Bluestar Harbin Petrochemical 9010 Acetic anhydride Jiangsu Danhua Group 8800 PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical 10520 Acrylic acid (industrial grade A) Shanghai Huayi Group 12000 Jiangsu...

School lunch trays can be recycled.
Democratic Councilman Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn, N.Y., wants to ban all polystyrene food trays from the area's schools--and no wonder. With New York City schools using 4,000,000 cafeteria trays a day and not recycling them, valuable landfill space is being wasted. Historically, clean post-industrial and consumer packaging made...

20 things you didn't know about recycling.
1 Drink up: It takes three months for a recycled aluminum can to make its way back onto the shelf in reincarnated form. 2 Or build a bridge: In 2002 researchers from Rutgers University built a 42-foot-long bridge over a river using plastic beams made from polystyrene...

Bringing new life to packing foam weighs on agency.
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard The phone is ringing off the hook at NextStep Recycling with people who want to get rid of the block foam their Christmas gifts came packed in. Executive Director Lorraine Kerwood doesn't want to be all bah-humbug about this, but...

Logology in Hollywood.
The IMDb--the International Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com) is a handy source of data for logology. Dipping into it recently I was pleased to unearth a fourteen-step transpositional ladder starting with Steven Spielberg's sublime classic 'ET--the Extraterrestrial' and ending with the ridiculous romantic comedy 'Miss Personality'. ET...

Nanoscale acrylic block copolymer.
Arkema KK, Japan, has developed an acrylic block copolymers, marketed as Nanostrength, which the company says is the first nanoscale plastic of its kind. Changing matter at the nanometre scale offers some very interesting property tradeoffs. However, until now, these new nanotechnologies have yielded very few industrial...

Ten-alarm fire hits Bernat Mill; Uxbridge complex destroyed.
Byline: Steven H. Foskett Jr.; Richard Nangle UXBRIDGE - On Friday, the Bernat Mill on Depot Street was a bustling hodgepodge of small businesses, a rare economic success story in an area that needed one. Yesterday morning, most of the three-story mill was engulfed in...

James M. Kinsella, 69.
LEOMINSTER James M. Kinsella, 69, of 78 Orchard Street, died peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on Friday, September 28th, after battling lung cancer for fifteen months. He leaves behind his best friend and wife of 27 years, Susan (Macey) Kinsella; four sons, James and...

Now, that's smart! A closer look at the growing emphasis on smart, two-faced and nanostructured particles and their many applications in personal care formulations.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ONE VERY noticeable hair care trend is the increasing use of nanostructured or "smart" particles to impart desirable attributes to hair. This drive appears to have been initiated by an emphasis on amphipathic particles that started about a decade ago. The concept of using amphipathic...

Sparing lives; Mill blaze offered stern test.
Byline: Steven H. Foskett Jr. UXBRIDGE - Fire Chief Peter J. Ostroskey was incredulous when asked what he might do differently the next time there's a fire like the one that destroyed the Bernat Mill. "Next time?" said the 42-year-old chief. "There's not going to...