OPaL in talks with local and overseas petrochemical companies to sell 25% stake

ONGC Petro additions Ltd (OPaL) is in talks with local and overseas petrochemical companies to sell as much as 25% in the company, three Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd (ONGC) officials ...

Practical calculator app for roll dimensions and pallet optimisation

ATP‘s new app (for Apple, Android devices and online) is a user friendly tool designed to help professionals in the tape industry quickly determine the running length, weight and...

Large paraxylene spreads to benefit refiners, petrochemical firms in South Korea

South Korean oil refineries and petrochemicals firms are likely to log decent earnings this year due to the widening paraxylene spreads on account of solid demand and dwindling supplie...

Polymer price trends in North Africa (Egypt) for the week

PE PE monthly prices remained stable. Oil prices fell last week amid concerns about the market supply and demand balance as production in Canada started to grow...

Polymer price trends in China for the week

PE PE prices rose on average by US$33.3/mt. Oil prices fell last week amid concerns about the market supply and demand balance as production in Canada started t...

Oil, polymer price trends in South East Asia for the week

South East Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, etc) PE PE prices were relatively stable. Oil prices fell last week a...

Polymer price trends in Far (North) East Asia for the week

Far (North) East Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc) PE PE prices were relatively stable, rising on average by US$3.3/mt. Oil prices fell last week...

Oil, polymer price trends in South Asia for the week

South Asia (India, Pakistan, etc) PE Local Indian PE prices remained unchanged. Oil prices fell last week amid concerns about the market supply a...

Oil, polymer price trends in North America for the week

Oil prices fell last week amid concerns about the market supply and demand balance as production in Canada started to grow and U.S. stockpiles dropped less than expected.Crude inv...

Masterbatches provide flame retardancy and IR filtering in PC sheets

Two masterbatches have been developed to modify PC for applications including multi-wall and solid sheets for construction and other applications by Israeli compound, additive and mast...

Japan's Mitsui Chemicals shuts naphtha cracker at Osaka for maintenance

Japan's Mitsui Chemicals Inc's wholly-owned unit Osaka Petrochemical Industries Ltd shut the 500,000 tpa naphtha c...

Latin America’s largest petrochemical complex, Braskem-Grupo Idesa JV operates at 50% after 45 days

45 days since the start of operations of Latin America’s largest petrochemical complex - a joint venture of Brazil’s Braskem and Mexico’s Grupo Idesa, the facility is...

Trinseo unveils biocompatible Polystyrene for medical devices

Trinseo, the global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, is introducing a general purpose polystyrene (GPPS) specifically for the medical...

Jacobs awarded detailed Engineering and Procurement Services Contract for TCI Sanmar PVC-2 expansion project in Egypt

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract to provide detailed engineering and procurement assistance services to TCI Sanmar Chemical S.A.E. (TCI Sanmar) for its PVC-2 ...

Petronas plans to partner Saudi Aramco to build a refinery and steam cracker complex

PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has taken another important step forward in the RM60 billion Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Pengerang, south Joh...

Rising demand from aerospace to prop global advanced polymer composites market past US$12 bln by 2020

The global advanced polymer composites market stood at US$7.47 bln in 2013 and is predicted to touch US$12.12 bln by 2020, by rising at a 7.2% CAGR between 2014 and 2020, as per Transp...

Perstorp Open Innovation Challenge to creatively applying Capa™ Thermoplastic

Perstorp announces the winner in its Innovation Challenge, a competition launched in September 2015 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its unique Capa™ caprolactone thermoplast...

Low density polyethylene market weak on import surge, Brexit apprehensions

Low density polyethylene (LDPE) spot prices remained at their lowest level since early April on muted spot activity amid bearish price expectations amid an abundance of imports and in ...

RIL and IIP develop and commercialise technology to remove benzene from FCC light naphtha