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SUMMARY Oil price spiked once again by almost 6% on to higher demand due to onset of colder days this winter in USA after a few weeks of softer price. It is to be seen whether this price...
DuPont has announced plans to invest more than US$22.5 million to construct The DuPont Knowledge Center - its first research and development (R&D) center in India. The Center will be loca...
A day after the Company Law Board (CLB) granted Purnendu Chatterjee absolute control of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd, he has expressed a desire for an "amicable solution", as he feels CLB or...
Eastman Chemical Co. plans to permanently close a non-integrated polyethylene terephthalate (PET) manufacturing site in San Roque, Spain. "An untenable labor situation" led to the decisio...
Light, sweet crude for March delivery dipped to US$57.87 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange midmorning in Singapore, as market participants took profits af...
The Company Law Board has directed the West Bengal government to exit from Haldia Petrochemical Ltd by selling its stake to joint venture partner Purnendu Chatterjee. This order has prove...
Reports suggest that an alliance for a proposed PVC venture has been inked between Solvay (Brussels/Belgium) and Russian chemical producer Siberian-Ural Petrochemical Co (Sibur) may be im...
A two-decade-long battle against groups warning of potential health hazards of using plastics pipes has ended in California as California homebuilders have won the right to use less-expe...
Approval has been granted for construction of a petrochemical facility on China's eastern coast - a joint investment between China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), Exxon Mobil Corp....
Japanese petrochemical maker Sanyo Petrochemical Co., a unit of Asahi Kasei Corp, has rescheduled a maintenance shutdown at its 450,000 tpa naphtha cracker from this 2007 to March/April 2...
The Asian naphtha market has strengthened sharply in recent weeks due to a severe supply shortage. Naphtha's spread against Brent crude -- the Brent/naphtha crack that is the benchmark in...
Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company, an affiliate Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has signed Letters of Award with two companies for the construction of new Polypropylene (PP) an...
Oil traded as high as US$57.05 before falling back to settle at US$56.97 a barrel, as the market awaits the weekly U.S. inventories report. Oil and natural gas prices jumped Tuesday on ex...
The robust and steadily growing market for MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate), a major raw material used in the production of rigid polyurethane foam and polyurethane elastomers, merits f...
The engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton Co. has reached an agreement with SK Corp. regarding the commercialization of ACO technology-a new technology for olef...
NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, released the results of its fourth quarter petrochemical production and inventory surveys. In Q4-2006, total production of the 15...
Global consumption of biodegradable packaging materials in 2005-06 of nearly 43,000 tons, is estimated to grow to a figure of almost 116,000 tons by 2011, showing an annual growth figure ...
Samsung Engineering Co., South Korea's leading industrial plant builder, has been awarded a US$256 million order to build a new chemical-producing plant in India by Indian Oil Corp.. The ...
Saudi Arabia's national oil company - Saudi Aramco, seeks America's Dow Chemical Company as a partner for the construction of a petrochemical complex at Ras Tanura. Ras Tanura, the world'...
The textile technology department of IIT has developed a smart polymer window that responds to outer temperatures. The polymer window lets in only diffused light when it is very hot and i...
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