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PolyOne is to expand its share of the European market with the start up of a new line for the manufacture of OnFlex range of TPE compounds in Spain. The new line has a capacity of 3,500 ...
As part of China's massive expansion in the petrochemicals sector to reduce it dependence on imports, Sinopec Corp is to start construction of a one mln tpa naphtha cracker in eastern Nin...
The Middle East represents one of the fastest growing regions for BOPP film demand. Burgeoning consumer markets and availability of competitive feedstocks is leading to a boom in BOPP fil...
Global consumption of BOPP film rose by more than 8% in 2005 to 4.28 mln tons, in line with the five-year average of 8.9% estimated by PCI Films Consulting. An estimated 1.5 mln tpa of th...
As part of its plan to expand its petrochemical business in the ASEAN region by focusing on high-value, products, Siam Cement Group (SCG) plans to build a US$466.5 mln (Baht 17.1 billion)...
Oil prices slid on Wednesday on release of report that crude oil inventories rose by 2 million barrels last week, while heating oil and gasoline inventories fell. Though the drop in produ...
LG International's new joint venture PP plant in Oman with Omani Petrochemicals is targeting European sales of 100,000 tpa from its total capacity of 340,000 tpa. LG International aims to...
Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil Chemical Qatar Ltd., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp., have signed a Heads of Agreement to progress studies for a proposed US$3 bln petrochemical complex in...
Rapra Technology's 12th Plastics Additives and Compounding (AddCon) conference took place on 17-18 October in Cologne, Germany, with representations from industry leaders such as Borealis...
Several planned and unplanned plant shutdowns, including those at Nova Chemicals and Westlake Chemicals, have restricted ethylene supply and maintained contract prices in Sep 2006 in Nort...
Due to a revision of priorities, Dow has suspended talks with Qatar Petroleum (QP) about a proposed petrochemical JV in Qatar. However, Dow will carry on with its other projects underwa...
Petroquimica Uniao (PQU), 37.2% owned by Unipar plans to construct a new 500,000 tpa ethylene train, expanding capacity at its Capuava site in Sao Paulo (Brazil) to 1.2 million tpa by 201...
Reliance and IPCL have announced a downward polymer price change wef Nov1, 2006, as follows: LDPE is down by Rs 3 per kg on basic LLDPE is down by Rs 2.50 per kg on basic HM HDPE film ...
Oil prices continued sliding for the entire day falling as low as US$57.05 a barrel, and then zipped higher toward the end of the trading session. Light sweet crude for December delivery ...
Brunei has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for its first methanol plant, to be built at an estimated cost of US$288 million. Brunei's first gas-based petrochemical plant will c...
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) is in talks with Total of France and also Kuwait Petroleum to divest upto 50% stake in the proposed 15 mln mtpa Vizag refinery. HPCL proposes to inv...
by destroyed, has commenced operations at full capacity within a couple of days. A diesel hydrotreater that was shut following the fire at the adjacent vacuum gasoil hydrotreater was back...
Iran, Qatar and Australia plan to increase production of natural gas, raising supply of condensate by 7.2% pa until 2010. Condensate is a by-product valued because of its suitability as a...
Petrochemical group Unipetrol has agreed to sell its PVC subsidiary Spolana to the Polish chemical group Anwil, another PVC maker. The sale price for this widely anticipated deal, totaled...
Thermoformable plastics extruded sheet using starch-based biodegradable resins will now be manufactured for alternative packaging applications and other markets in a joint venture between...
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