Lotte Group shelves plans to list Malaysian petrochemicals business amid widening investigations

Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest family-run conglomerate, has shelved plans to list its Malaysian petrochemicals business amid widening investigations at the parent, as p...

Startup develops process that uses wood, agricultural waste to make glycols

A Vancouver biochemical startup that developed a process that uses wood and agricultural waste instead of petrochemicals to make glycols, a basic building block for a wide range of pro...

Reifenhäuser sells 5 cast film lines in 2015 with Midex-HSD winder that can handle large reel diameters

Reifenhäuser, the German-based extrusion machinery specialist, said it sold five cast film lines last year, equipped with its new Midex-HSD winder model, for producing cast polypr...

Biology and 3D printing combined to create first reactor that can produce methanol from methane at room temp and pressure

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have combined biology and 3D printing to create the first reactor that can continuously produce methanol from methane at room temperat...

Jacobs awarded 3 year petrochemicals contract by Sahara

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.  has received a three year contract from Sahara Petrochemicals (Sahara) to provide general engineering services at Sahara’s Jubail Industrial C...

Breakthrough Technology Enables Recyclable Flexible Plastic Packaging

The Dow Chemical Company is introducing a new member of the recently launched RecycleReady™ Technology, which enables the recyclability of polyethylene-based barrier packaging as...

Kordestan Petrochemical Plant to produce 300,000 tpa of light polyethylene

Iran’s Kordestan Petrochemical Plant will produce 300,000 tpa of light polyethylene  once it comes on stream, said a senior official in a report. The plant’s physical ...

Astronomers announce discovery of the first chiral molecule in interstellar space

 Astronomers announced the discovery of the first chiral molecule in interstellar space this week at an American Astronomical Society meeting. Chirality is a quality of asymmetry....

Nano silver conductive inks for printed electronics

Clariant is opening up the sustainability and performance advantages of direct printing of high-conductivity electrical traces to new areas of the Electronics Manufacturing Industry th...

Solution for improving thermal performance, with very low levels of residual volatiles and easy processability

Polyscope, the world’s leading producer of styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) copolymers, is expanding its XIRAN® heat booster range. Originally introduced to increase the high t...

Propylene market in Southeast Asia estimated to reach US$ 9.4 bln by 2020

Increasing demand from propylene derivative products will drive the Southeast Asia propylene market to reach US$9.4 bln by 2020, as per  IndustryARC, at a CAGR of 19.6% by 2020. T...

Global 1-Butene market worth US$4.21 bln by 2021

1-Butene is predominantly used in the production of polyethylene. It is used as a comonomer in a range of polyethylene applications such as flexible and rigid packaging. It is also use...

Stabilizer improves LTTS of short- and long-glass fiber reinforced PP used in interior automotive applications

SONGWON has launched its latest innovation for the automotive industry - The new SONGXTEND® 2124 stabilizer solution, specifically developed to meet the stringent demands of the au...

Vitol sells Paradip refinery naphtha to Japan, develops new trade route

Geneva-headquartered Vitol, one of the world's largest traders in crude oil and oil products, has sold a naphtha cargo sourced from the new Indian refinery in Paradip for shipment ...

CPC Corp to start operations at four new units in South Taiwan to raise crude processing capacity by 17%

State-owned Taiwanese refiner CPC Corp is expected to start operations at four new units in southern Taiwan by the end of this year, lifting the refinery's crude processing capacit...

Societe Generale and Tahrir Petrochemicals ink agreement to manage US$5.9 bln financing

Societe Generale and Tahrir Petrochemicals Corporation S.A.E, owned by private Egyptian firm Carbon Holdings Limited, have signed an agreement to manage the US$5.9 bln in financing req...

Axiall and Lotte holds a groundbreaking ceremony at LACC cracker in Calcasieu Parish