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World Nitrogen Trifluoride Market to Reach 19.5 Thousand Metric Tons by 2012
Asia-Pacific dominates the world nitrogen trifluoride market, with a 67.5% share estimated in the year 2008 due to the concentration of semiconductor industry, the major end-use market for NF3. The region is also expected to post the highest growth with a projected CAGR in nearly 20% over the period of 2011 through 2015. Consumption of […]
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Yorkshire: Households in Sheffield have fluoride added to their water
FLUORIDE is being added to the drinking water of more than 50,000 households in Yorkshire. Around 56,000 homes in the Sheffield area receive supplies mixed with the mineral. The figure, released under the Freedom of Information Act, comes as an official investigation into the pros and cons of mixing Yorkshire’s drinking water with fluoride takes […]
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Sandpoint: Groups question city’s fluoride use
SANDPOINT — A long-simmering debate about the use of fluoride in the city’s drinking water might finally be boiling over, with a growing number of residents questioning the benefits and safety of the 57-year-old program. Like most communities in America, Sandpoint began adding small batches of fluoride to its drinking water in the early 1950s […]
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Georgia: Drinking water free of PFOA, PFOS, utility says
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found no perflouroctanoic acid (PFOA) or perflouroctane sulfonate (PFOS) in Dalton Utilities drinking water, says utility president Don Cope. Cope said Thursday the EPA sampled the utility’s drinking water supply as well as treated samples from all of its treatment plants this spring and found “non-detectable levels” of those […]
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Minnesota: PFC study results shared with community
Residents of Washington County learned last Tuesday the amount and type of perfluorochemicals (PFCs) present in 200 people from Oakdale who participated in a study. Researchers said the data show residents’ PFC levels relate to their age, how long they have lived in their home and whether they currently or previously worked for 3M. Staff […]
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Pennsylvania: DEP investigating chemical cloud at Allegheny Ludlum plant
The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating an accident Monday afternoon at the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. in Washington County that resulted in the release of a yellow, toxic chemical cloud outside the plant. The DEP said that an overhead crane malfunctioned and could not remove a stainless steel plate from a 10,000-gallon vat […]
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Cambridge Biostability fails to find cash injection
Cambridge Biostability, a company working on vaccine technology based on the resurrection plant, has gone bust. Business Weekly understands that the business has been looking for new funding since February. It told confidants that it might have enough cash to last to September but has had to call in recovery and insolvency specialists at Peters […]
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Minnesota: 3M cleanup coming up in southeastern Woodbury
Excavation of a former 3M disposal site in southeastern Woodbury will begin next month, 3M officials informed the Woodbury City Council last week. Last summer the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency revealed the Maplewood-based company’s plan to remediate the disposal site that 3M used primarily in the 1960s to dump products containing perfluorochemicals (PFCs). Over the […]
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Mt. Pleasant: City Fluoride Task Force looking for research experts
Mount Pleasant’s Fluoride Task Force is looking for experts to provide information and recommendations in fluoride research. The committee, created in January, has four members researching the effects of fluoridation in water supplies and aid the city’s commission on decisions regarding water fluoridation. Four applicants were confirmed at the city commission’s May 11 meeting. Sharyl […]
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Investigators still can’t go near Citgo fire site
CORPUS CHRISTI — Investigators from two federal agencies have not been allowed near a unit that caught fire last week at Citgo Refining and Chemicals Co. The unit still is considered unsafe. The alkylation unit continued to burn for more than two days after the July 19 fire started. Alkylation is a key aspect of […]
United States, Texas Oil Refineries