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Recent trials by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) have demonstrated that the fresh produce industry can reduce packaging by around 25% without compromising product quality. This ...
The EU competition authorities plan to conduct further investigations in connection with the acquisition of Hydro's polymers business, Kerling ASA, by UK-based Ineos. This investigation i...
Foam polystyrene has been made biodegradable through a novel approach by Chinese scientists. The team has now developed a new approach that involves embedding water-absorbing resin partic...
Basell has launched a metallocene-based Metocene polypropylene (PP) copolymer, Clyrell EM248U, targeted for application towards processors of clear, thin-wall, injection-molded (TWIM) foo...
Singapore's SP Chemicals Ltd. Co. plans to invest US$11 bln in a project to build the Hoa Tam Petrochemical Industrial Zone and the Naphtha Cracking Phu Yen Petrochemical Complex in south...
Samsung Engineering Co. has received a US$1.1 bln contract from Thailand's PTT Pcl to build gas plants. The value of this order makes it the biggest Thai order for South Korea's No. 1 eng...
Thailand's state-run PTT Public Co. Ltd. has awarded a US$170 mln contract to SK Engineering & Construction. SK Engineering will build upgrade facilities such as condensate residue splitt...
According to sources, Reliance is reportedly planning a petrochemical project in Eastern China. RIL is reported to be in talks with China Petroleum for a joint venture, and also in talks ...
Venezuelan President and his Bolivian counterpart have signed a range of cooperation agreements on petrochemical and cement production, forestry and mining. As per the deal, the petroc...
Amid maintenance shutdowns, Japanese ethylene production in the month of August dipped by 1%as against production figures for the same month a year ago. Ethylene production for August thi...
Total Petrochemicals, USA has restarted a unit at its 232,000 bpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery. Unit 813 began restarting after maintenance. The restart is expected to be completed by Sep...
LG Chem, South Korea's largest chemicals maker, has completed construction of a PVC plant in China at an investment of US$300 mln (281 bln won). With this new capacity, LG Chem's annual P...
Borealis has completed the sale of its Norwegian polyolefins business and share of the Noretyl gas cracker to Ineos. The deal, estimated at EUR 290 mln, encompasses a 175,000 tpa polyprop...
GAIL (India) has achieved mechanical completion of its new 1,00,000 tpa HDPE (high density polyethylene) plant at the petrochemical complex at Pata, based on technology from Mitsui, Japan...
Indian Oil Corp (IOC) has received environmental clearance for its project in Orissa on August 6, 2007. IOC will commission a new 15 million tons oil refinery and an accompanying petroche...
Hindustan Petroleum Corp is considering setting up of a refinery and/or petrochemical project in South India, and take on steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd and/or Oil...
Total Petrochemicals' Line 1 of the steam cracker located in Carling, France has been shut for a 6 week maintenance maintenance wef 3 September 2007. The maintenance and modernisation pla...
As part of its integral goal of recycling or re-using all of its PET bottles in the US market, Coca-Cola plan to invest over US$60 mln in a US bottle recycling plant. This plant, that tha...
Bagasse, a previously useless waste product from sugar cane, is being used to make biodegradeable packaging for food products in Thailand. The new "bagasse boxes" are made out of agricult...
The three partners in Fujian Refining and Petrochemical Co - Exxon, Sinopec and Saudi Arabian Oil, also known as Aramco have finally reached an agreement. The agreement was reached despit...
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