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SEOUL, South Korea -Monday, June 12th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- LG Chem(KRX: 051910) is stepping up a drive to lead the global water treatment market after winning Egypt’s largest project to turn sea water into fresh water. LG Chem announced today it has been chosen as the sole supplier of Reverse Osmosis (RO) membranes to a seawater desalination plant with 300,000-ton capacity which Metito, a global water treatment company, will build in El Galalah and Port Said in Egypt. It is the largest desalination plant in the country which can provide fresh water to about 2 million people a day. LG Chem is scheduled to supply RO membranes from the second half of this year. Last year, LG Chem won an order from a plant in Oman with 250,000-ton capacity. The two contracts brought LG Chem closer to the global market leadership. Salt concentration and water temperature in the Red Sea area including El Galalah are the highest in the world, requiring RO membranes to satisfy difficult ... Read more »
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● Pivotal Phase III study results for biosimilar candidate BI 695501 will be presented for the first time at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2017) ● Phase III results complete the total body of evidence required to demonstrate biosimilarity to HUMIRA® ● BI 695501 currently under review by regulatory authorities INGELHEIM, Germany & MADRID-Wednesday, June 14th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Boehringer Ingelheim announced today results from the pivotal Phase III VOLTAIRE®-RA1 study, confirming that its adalimumab biosimilar candidate BI 695501 and HUMIRA®* have similar efficacy, safety and immunogenicity in patients with moderately-to-severely active rheumatoid arthritis. The 24 week results will be presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2017) in Madrid. These data confirm the clinical efficacy equivalence of BI 695501 to HUMIRA®. The safety and immunogenicity data in the study were also similar between BI 695501 and HUMIRA®. ... Read more »
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LONDON-Wednesday, June 14th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), founded by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and SmartStream, today announced a new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) reference data service, enabling financial organisations to more easily meet regulatory requirements, which go live in January 2018. The SmartStream RDU MiFID II service is now in testing with customers. The RDU provides a fully integrated reference data set to support pre-trade price transparency, post-trade reporting and transaction reporting, sourcing data from ESMA, ANNA, GLEIF, the National Competent Authorities and trading venues, as well as enrichment feeds, where applicable. The result is a simple to use, enriched source that allows customers to focus on ensuring that their trading processes comply with the new regulations. In addition to an aggregated data feed, the service includes an API that allows customers to ... Read more »
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Eight episodes of spin off show ‘Social Experiment’ to air throughout Ramadan focusing on themes associated with the holy month CAIRO-Wednesday, June 14th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- ALTV.com, one of the fastest growing free streaming services recently launched in the Middle East and North Africa, is to air eight special Ramadan-focused episodes of ‘Social Experiment’, a spin off series from the hit show ‘Girls Social Experiment’. The hidden camera show has gained notoriety for its exploration of the social challenges faced by young women in Cairo. Episodes such as ‘Girl Wants to Get Married’, ‘Waiting on the Street’ and ‘Cancer Girl’, question the attitudes of people on the streets of Cairo when approached by young women asking for help or opinions on personal problems. Social Experiment has accumulated millions of views and has provoked huge reactions on social media as new episodes are streamed through ALTV’s free video content platform. Due to popular demand, the new ep ... Read more »
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