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Government is considering setting up three new petrochemical investment regions in the coastal areas of Karnataka, Maharashtra and West Bengal. At present there are four such regions - D...
According to ChemOrbis Price Index, Turkey’s import HDPE and LLDPE film prices have hit the highest levels seen after 2008 while LDPE and homo PP prices are very close to the post-2008 pe...
A fire has damaged a petrochemical plant in eastern Thailand, sending smoke billowing for miles and forcing nearby residents to flee their homes. No injuries have been reported in the fir...
Petrochemicals company Westlake Chemical Corp plans to buy Germany polyvinyl chloride (PVC) maker Vinnolit Holdings GmbH and its subsidiary companies for 490 mln euros (US$667 mln) from p...
Sasol Chemicals North America LLC and INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA announced today that they have reached final investment decision to form a joint venture to build a high-density polyeth...
Oil prices rose in Asian trade Monday, boosted by robust Chinese export data and a solid US jobs report. US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for July delivery, rose to US$102.7 a ...
Last week, European spot steam cracker margins hit a near month high of Eur 72/mt (US$98/mt) mid week, on the back of an increase in ethylene, as per Platts. Ethylene spot prices reached ...
Kuwait Petroleum International (Q8) will start the execution of a mega joint venture to build a refinery and petrochemical complex in Vietnam in 2014, said Q8 Chief Executive Officer Bakh...
Graham Corp has been awarded four orders for projects valued at approximately US$10 mln. The orders are for upgrades of Graham ejector system components at three oil refineries and an eth...
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) - the Assam gas cracker project at Lepetkata is crawling towards completion and should be able to commence production early next year, with ...
Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (SIPCHEM) and Sahara Petrochemicals Co. put on hold a planned merger that would have created a Saudi Arabian chemicals company with about US$5.7 bln ...
Asia's naphtha crack rose to a five session high of US$134.7/ton, at the end of the previous week, as an outage in South Korea coincided with lower European exports to Asia for July arriv...
Polypropylene compounding leader Washington Penn Plastic Co. has expanded with the acquisition of the North American specialty compounded PP products business of ExxonMobil Chemical Co., ...
Last week, European ethylene spot prices spiked mid week following a fire earlier in the week at Shell's Moerdijk site in the Netherlands. The styrene monomer/propylene oxide facility at ...
A transparent electrode that could change the face of smartphones, by making their displays shatterproof, has been developed by the niversity of Akron polymer scientists. Researchers demo...
Packaging films are essential for quality and shelf-life of food, pharmaceutical, and other personal care products. Food packaging industry is the major consumer for packaging film follow...
Sasol has been ordered by the competition tribunal to pay a R534 mln penalty for overcharging domestic customers between January 2004 and December 2007. It was found that SCI, a subsidiar...
In Africa, polymer markets received new June offers from Middle Eastern producers. Rollovers to price rise are indicated for new PP and PE offers from May amidst tight supplies arising fr...
Naphtha crack in Asia rose for the first time in about 1-1/2 weeks on Thursday, recovering from a near three-month low to a 4 session high of US$132.60/ton as an outage at a secondary uni...
Demand for naphtha is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.1% in terms of revenue from 2013 to 2019 and the market was valued at US$167,711.8 mln in 2012 are expected to reach US$237,625.2 mln...
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