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India and the Gulf Cooperation Council are working to finalise the Free Trade Agreement by year end, to further boost bilateral trade ties. Among the sectors likely to be included are man...
Dayim Punj Lloyd Construction Contracting Co. Ltd. has won a US$79 mln contract from Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company. Dayim Punj Lloyd is a joint venture company in which Punj Lloyd Ltd...
The European Commission has set August 24th as the deadline for its inquiry into British chemical company Ineos' proposed acquisition of Norsk Hydro ASA's petrochemicals business Kerling ...
The Saudi Capital Market Authority (CMA) has granted permission to Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) to increase the size of its sukuk (Islamic bonds) by almost SR3 bln. The CMA had ea...
The board of directors of Thai Aromatics (ATC), Thailand's largest aromatic petrochemical manufacturer, has approved a plan to merge with small refiner Rayong Refinery. The merged firm wi...
Lanxess has presented its portfolio of effective flame retardant phosphorous compounds for plastics and polyurethanes. The flame retardants come in three product lines Levagard, Disflamol...
Basell, owned by Access Industries, a U.S. based industrial group, has agreed to acquire Lyondell for US$48 per share in an all-cash transaction. Basell is the world's largest producer of...
The market for biodegradable polymers is estimated to grow to about 392 million pounds by 2013, according to a study by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. The 7% pa growth will be propelled b...
A new BASF Corporation facility has commenced construction in Wyandotte to house the R&D, administrative and manufacturing operations of recently acquired Johnson Polymer. BASF is investi...
Oil prices dipped as Nigeria resumed exports from an oil facility in Angola over the weekend and amid expectations of an easing of U.S. gasoline demand as peak of the Northern Hemisphere ...
Kyoto University chemical engineering professor Masahiro Ohshima and Mitsubishi Plastics Inc. have developed plastic sheets to make fuel cells more efficient. The duo has invented a way t...
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a contract by China's ShenHua Baotou Coal Chemicals for a new polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) facility at its coal chemical complex at Baotou in In...
Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co, a unit of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec), has planned expansion at its 800,000 tpa plant to become China's largest paraxylene (PX) producer. Th...
Equistar Chemicals LP is to spend over US$125 mln on pollution controls and clean-up at the plants in Texas, Illinois, Iowa and Louisiana. The plants include Morris, Ill.; Clinton, Iowa; ...
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) have signed a wide-ranging cooperation agreement. The agreement will assure domestic oil supplies to ...
A new additive that broadens the usability of polylactic (PLA) has been introduced by Rohm and Haas. The new additive Paraloid BPM-500, uses dispersible nanoparticles that do not scatter ...
Dow Chemical Co plans a joint venture with ethanol producer Crystalsev to manufacture polyethylene from sugar cane. Dow and its Brazilian partner plans to design and build a manufacturing...
South Korea's biggest chemicals maker - LG Chem Ltd. has posted a record-high quarterly net profit to 236.7 billion won to June 30, up from a 45.1 billion won profit a year earlier. Th...
South Korea's Honam Petrochemical Corp. has earmarked an investment outlay of US$390 mln in a joint project to build a petrochemical plant in Qatar. An agreement has been signed between H...
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted approval to thermoplastic elastomers for food contact applications. This approval gives flexibility, greater simplicity for packaging manuf...
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