UN adopts global treaty limiting plastic waste trade

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UN adopts global treaty limiting plastic waste trade

May 10, 2019 Updated 5/10/2019 Email Print UN Web TV Rolph Payet, executive secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, a U.N. agency., speaks during a May 10 news conference. Hoping to slow plastic pollution in the environment, members at a high-level United Nations meeting May 10 decided to include plastic waste in a

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Techmer PM adds new line to handle 3D printing growth

May 10, 2019 Updated 5/10/2019 Email Print Techmer PM Techmer PM has added production to meet increased demand for large-scale 3D printing materials. Materials maker Techmer PM has added a major production line in Clinton, Tenn., to handle a growing market for large-scale 3D printing. In a May 8 news release, officials with Clinton-based Techmer

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Investment group buys Alabama thermoformer

May 10, 2019 Updated 5/10/2019 Email Print An investment group acquired Birmingham-based thermoformer Reliable Formed Plastics LLC on May 3. Terms were not disclosed. The five-member investment group includes company founder Rick Turman, who will remain with Reliable Formed Plastics as president. New team members include Finance Director Michael Orme and Operations Director Matthew LePere.

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Study: Natural Gas Will Have Long-Term Role in U.S. Power, Economy

Natural gas will play a major role in the U.S. power market and wider economy through 2040, according to a new study from the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) Foundation. The study, The Role of Natural Gas in the Transition to a Lower-Carbon Economy, examines the role natural gas will play in two

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Westfall Technik buys medical molder Delta Pacific, subsidiaries

May 10, 2019 Updated 5/10/2019 Email Print Delta Pacific Products Delta Pacific Products is an injection molder and contract manufacturer for mostly medical device and life sciences OEMs, such as Abbott, Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. Las Vegas-based Westfall Technik Inc. has acquired Delta Pacific Products and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Prism Plastics

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Auto supplier Hematite to invest $11.5M in second US location

May 10, 2019 Updated 5/10/2019 Email Print Hematite Inc. Hematite opened its first U.S. facility, in Ohio, in 2018. It has announced its second U.S. site will be in Tennesseee. Canadian auto supplier Hematite Inc. is investing $11.5 million to retrofit a vacant industrial building for production in Fayetteville, Tenn. The facility, which should be

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Fed Court Rules Against NY Antis in “Landmark” Dominion Pipe Case

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Antis pinned their hopes that they could get the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to overturn a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval for Dominion to build

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Natgas Customer Moratorium Killing Ithaca Suburb of Lansing, NY

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Hey Westchester County, NY: You have a model to look at for your own moratorium on (blocking of) new natural gas customers. It’s located upstate, in Lansing, NY, just outside of college

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Rice Boys Respond to Scorching Letter from EQT Board

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Another day, another episode of the ongoing soap opera that is the power struggle to retain (or take over) control of the country’s largest natural gas producer: EQT. Yesterday we told you

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Cabot O&G Having a Tough Time Filling Open Jobs in NEPA

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Several members of the Marcellus Shale industry spoke at a meeting of the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce yesterday, including MDN friend George Stark from Cabot Oil & Gas. George is director of

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2 NY Dem Lawmakers Push Bill to Ban New Fossil Fuel Facilities

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Two Democrat New York State legislators, Senator Jen Metzger and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, are floating parallel bills that would outright ban any new natural gas-fired electric plants or natural gas pipelines in

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West Virginia governor’s mines sued by feds

The U.S. government sued nearly two dozen of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies Tuesday to get them to pay roughly $4.8 million in unpaid mine safety fines. The civil lawsuit was filed by federal prosecutors in Virginia on behalf of the U.S. Department of Labor and the Mine Safety and Health Administration, The Associated

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EQT uses stick & carrot against Rice-led dissidents

EQT Corp. is not a Mom-and-Pop natural gas producer – and can’t be run like one – the board’s independent members said, in effect, to dissident shareholders looking to insert their board nominees into the operations of the U.S.’s largest gas producer. “The Board should not be a friends-and-family club, and it is not in

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Three Mile Island Unit 1 to shut by Sept. 30

The owner of the plant where North America’s worst nuclear power-related accident took place four decades ago, confirmed the facility’s lone remaining operating unit will shut down this September, Kallanish Energy reports. Exelon Generation said Three Mile Island (Tmi) Generating Station Unit 1, located near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on an island south of the state capital city

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Saudi Aramco considers investing in Marcellus Shale

Saudi Aramco is reportedly considering its first overseas gas project by investing in Equinor’s activities in the Marcellus Shale, according to Kallanish Energy. State-owned Saudi Aramco and Norwegian giant Equinor are in talks for interest acquisitions or joint ventures in the Marcellus Shale. Equinor currently operates over 344,000 acres in the Marcellus Shale. Saudi Arabia

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