Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Key players in the Chinese contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) market such as Wuxi AppTec & Wuxi Biologics, Asymchem Laboratories (Tianjin) Company, Ltd., Porton Pharma Solutions Ltd., Apeloa Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd and Zhejiang Jiuzhou Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, among others, have employed various strategies to expand their product and application offerings and »

North America Valero on June 6, experienced a fire at the lone crude unit at its 95,000-BBL/d Three Rivers, Texas, refinery, which also shut down four additional units. As of now, all units at the refinery are down. Valero Energy Corporation on June 5, restarted four units at its 265,000-BBL/d Jean Gaulin, Canada, refinery. The units »

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. Metals & Minerals Industry has been seeing more than a few positive signs as COVID-19 cases began to drop and the economy reopened. Happy days certainly are here again for the steel sector, with rising demand and diminished pandemic-related restrictions fueling a boom in steel prices. And the Industrial »

North America Luminant Generation Company LLC's 1,197-megawatt (MW) Comanche Peak 02 unit at its Comanche Peak Nuclear Generating Station in Texas, tripped offline on June 7 due to an electrical fault and a fire that occurred on the main transformer. Damage assessments are underway at this time, and plant officials have stated the unit is in "hot standby" mode. »

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. currently imports the majority of its aluminum from Canada, primarily because the electricity needed to produce the metal is cheaper north of the border. But Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) (Chicago, Illinois), the largest producer of primary (non-recycled) aluminum in the U.S., last week announced plans for increased production »