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Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp has inked a 12 month naphtha term contract starting December at a premium 10% lower than its last deal, as per Reuters. The petrochemicals major will ...
Falling upstream costs continued to pull PS markets down in China and Southeast Asia this week, as per ChemOrbis. Steadily weakening spot styrene costs in Asia, which recently dipped to t...
Des Plaines-based UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, said its Oleflex process technology has been selected to produce key ingredients to help meet the growing demand for fuel and petrochemical...
BASF has announced the start-up of a new butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant has an annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons. The plan...
European low density polyethylene and polypropylene headed east to dollar-denominated Turkish markets as a fall in domestic prices and a drop in the euro vs dollar opened the arbitrage, a...
Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp has reduced run rates at its 1.03 mln tpa naphtha cracker in Mailiao to 70% due to a small fire leading to equipment. It will take a week for the plant...
PTT GROUP is moving forward with its plan to invest US$22 bln (Bt707 billion) in a petrochemical refinery complex in Vietnam, as per The Nation. The company said in a statement that a del...
Hindustan Petroleum, which had last September announced setting up of a refinery at Barmer in Rajasthan, has expressed hope that it will be able to go ahead with the Rs. 37,230-crore proj...
The Asian naphtha physical market once again flipped into a contango structure on September 9 -- the second time in less than a month, amid persistent cargo length at the front of the mar...
Japan's Idemitsu Kosan Co has shut the 687,000 tpa naphtha cracker for scheduled maintenance, as per Reuters. A company spokeswoman did not say how long the maintenance lasts but added th...
A new method that allows the reversible conversion of a thermoset polymer into a thermoplastic has been discovered by researchers at Belgium's Ghent University. The “click chemistry” conv...
The global market for advanced printing materials is expected to grow to US$650 mln by 2019, with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.9%. The thermoplastics category is a...
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (Chevron Phillips Chemical) has signed an agreement to sell its Ryton® polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) business to Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, LLC (Solvay...
Saudi Arabia's PetroRabigh's founding shareholders have formally invited banks to provide financing for the 32 billion riyal (US$8.5 bln) expansion of its petrochemicals complex in the ki...
The lightweight materials market is expected to grow exponentially in the next five years. Different governments across the world have been strenghtening regulations for reduction of vehi...
Partners in the Plastics 2020 consortium have pledged their support for the recently-launched ‘Pledge 4 Plastics’ recycling campaign and announced they are to adopt an existing action pla...
Braskem has developed a new polyethylene that offers two times the life span as compared to existing materials. Intended for pipes and water mains applications, it was developed at the co...
North America is the world's largest market of biopolymers, which consumed more than one-third of the total demand. U.S is the key consumer of biopolymers in North America. Packaging, bot...
Work started on the Vung Ro refinery complex- a US$3.2 bln petrochemical refinery complex in the central province of Phu Yen, as per the Vietnam News Agency. It is designed to produce 8 m...
Divergent trends were observed in the European monomer markets this past week, as per ChemOrbis. Following the September monomer settlements, spot ethylene and styrene posted decreases, w...
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