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Chemical giant BASF announced Wednesday that it was slashing production worldwide because of a dramatic fall in demand.
The company said it was temporarily shutting down around 80 plants across the globe and reducing production in 100.
Some 20,000 employees would be affected, BASF said in a statement. Flexible working time...
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German chemical giant Bayer on Friday formally launched production at a new plant in Shanghai with the capacity to produce 350,000 tons annually of diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI).
"The new world-scale plant is the largest MDI facility of its kind in the world," Bayer said a press release issued in Shanghai.
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 An explosion at a chemical plant in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China killed twenty people on Tuesday. Rescuers confirmed the number of deaths on Wednesday as they found the plant employees in Yizhou City at 4:30 p.m., after the explosion.There were at least 11,000 evacuated company staff and residents nearby who could...
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A series of explosions at a chemical plant left 18 people dead and two missing in south-western China's Guangxi region, the government and state media said on Wednesday.
The explosions and a fire on Tuesday at the Guangwei Chemical Company also injured 60 workers and local residents, the State Administration of Work Safety reported...
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 Nearly 2,500 people were forced to leave their homes after a toxic cloud took over the area. On Saturday, a tank from a chemical plant in Pennsylvania released a corrosive liquid which caused about three residents to have some serious respiratory problems. The liquid, called oleum, is similar to sulfuric acid and leaked from a tank at...
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Five people died and 20 have been hospitalized with severe
burns, 17 of them in medically induced coma after the explosion and fire at the
Imperial Sugar refinery, near Savannah,
Georgia, which occurred
Thursday night, the Associated Press reports.
The twenty workers were hospitalized Saturday in Augusta, Georgia,
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 The delivery of nuclear fuel by Russia for Iran's Bushehr power plant
in southern Iran will not stop the country's uranium enrichment
process, Iranian Vice-President Gholam- Reza Aqazadeh told state
television Monday.
"The Russian nuclear fuel is only for Bushehr and we will continue
uranium enrichment in the Natanz plant...
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 Dow Chemical, the largest US chemical company, announced on Tuesday its plans to restructure, as it would shut down the less profitable plants, besides cutting around 1.000 jobs, including 250 jobs in Europe, as a solution for lowering costs and concentrating on its most expectant units.The company declared that the measures taken would...
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 “Popcorn worker’s lung” is a serious disease affecting people who work in microwave popcorn production – and scientists may have discovered its cause.
Diacetyl is a chemical ingredient important in the making of artificial butter flavoring for popcorn. Researchers now say that factory workers inhaling the...
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 A hundred years ago, an over-the-counter cannabis extract ointment was sold as a household remedy for eczema and other allergic skin reactions, but was later withdrawn from the market as a quack product.
Now scientists in Germany have discovered that cannabis does in fact reduce the itching and swelling of allergic skin reactions and...
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