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Date:2014/06/06
Growers are catching up with planting and some greenhouse harvesting has begun.
Posted on June 4, 2014 by Ben Phillips, Michigan State University Extension
Sweet corn planted on the same day under clear perforated plastic alone (left) and cl...
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Date:2014/06/06
Insect activity has increased in the past week. Cabbage caterpillars have reached threshold in some fields while cutworms and armyworms are active and causing damage in several vegetable crops.
Posted on June 4, 2014 by Lina Rodriguez Salamanca,...
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Date:2014/06/06
Asparagus harvest has been ongoing at a rapid pace, and other crops are being planted across West Central Michigan.
Posted on June 4, 2014 by Ben Werling, Michigan State University Extension
Crop report
Asparagus pickings continued to be h...
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Date:2014/06/06
Participants can compare herbicide programs, evaluate weed management strategies, tour MSU research plots and participate in field presentations.
Posted on June 3, 2014 by Christy Sprague, Michigan State University Extension, Department of Plant...
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Date:2014/06/05
On 29 May, 2014, it's reported that a trehalose project by Shandong Tianli Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Tianli Pharmaceutical) has succeeded in pilot test. Its trehalose is made from corn starch; after testing, the purity of trehalose reac...
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Date:2014/06/05
On 26 May, 2014, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences declared that they have managed to prepare the escherichia coli (E. coli) cell factory which could produce succinic acid efficiently. This work, transferring ...
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Date:2014/06/05
On 26 May, 2014, Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission published the Notice to Organize and Implement Bio-based Material Projects in 2014, aiming to promote the development of non-crop bio-based material industry and to encourage the commercial ...
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Date:2014/06/05
On 26 May, 2014, the SHENGQUAN process developed by Shengquan Group Co., Ltd. (Shengquan) is reported by numerous on-line media in China during their visit in Shandong Province. This SHENGQUAN process could efficiently transfer the active ingredients...
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Date:2014/06/04
In April 2014, the project of producing phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5) by using China’s first set of device recovering heat energy from combustion of phosphorus was put into operation under the investment of Yunnan Jinning Yellow Phosphorus Co., L...
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Date:2014/06/04
In May 2014, DuPont China Holding Co., Ltd. (DuPont) announced that it would upgrade the anti-counterfeit packaging system for refrigerants sold in China, to strengthen the forces engaged in the fight against fake products. Elizabeth Sassano, a manag...
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Date:2014/06/04
Anti-counterfeiting solution
Remark
Upgraded anti-counterfeit heat shrinking film
Refrigerant packaged by disposal cylinders and marked with the year 2014, will use the upgraded anti-counterfeit heat shrinking ...
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Date:2014/06/04
In March 2014, the European Union (EU) released the No 298/2014 Regulation and modified the rules about food additives in the annexes of the (EC) No 1333/2008 Regulation and the (EU) No 231/2012 Regulation, which approves the application of magnesium...
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Date:2014/06/04
On 20 May, 2014, the TiO2 coated agent project with a capacity of 50,000 t/a in Yizhishan Industrial District, Miyi White Horse Industrial Park was put into trial production. After 48-hour operating and adjustment, the project achieved normal operati...
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Date:2014/06/04
4. The coating industry will be reshuffled, and more relocations, conversions, shutdowns, acquisitions or mergers of paint manufacturing enterprises will occur.
Based on the above analysis, under the new law, coating manufacturers and ...
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Date:2014/06/04
3. More efforts will be put to R&D, and traditional solvent-based coatings will be replaced by solventless coatings such as waterborne coatings and powder coatings.
According to Article 46 of the law, processes, equipment and products that se...
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Date:2014/06/04
2. Production and operation of paint manufacturing enterprises will be under much stricter supervision.
According to Article 25 of the law, any polluter that is illegally discharging pollutants, or is likely to cause severe pollution, m...
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Date:2014/06/04
1. Entry, project approval and construction will become more difficult for paint manufacturing enterprises.
According to Article 19 of the law, any construction project without a legal environmental impact assessment may not commen...
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Date:2014/06/04
As one of major polluters, the coating industry has to transform itself to adapt to the new law. The new law may cause the following impacts to the coating industry.
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Date:2014/06/04
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature, adopted the Revisions to the Environmental Protection Law on 24 April, 2014, which will take effect o...
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Date:2014/06/03
Product
Import price, USD/t
MoM change
Export price, USD/t
MoM change
Corn
283
-3%
333
-12%
Corn starch
761
-37%
497
-3%
C...