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EU Q1 polystyrene imports jumped 119% year on year, according to recent Eurostat data- about 38,920 mt of PS was imported in Q1, up from 17,752 mt in Q1 of last year and 40% above the 27,...
Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co Ltd has announced that a small quantity of a petrochemical product leaked into the sea from a newly-built paraxylene plant in South Korea. The company has ...
Guangdong Peng Zun Energy Development Co., Ltd., a Chinese petrochemical producer, has selected Honeywell's UOP C3 Oleflex™ process technology to convert propane to propylene. This will...
A round of PTA (purified terephthalic acid) plant shutdowns was recently reported by players in China amidst oversupply concerns and poor production margins of the feedstock, as per ChemO...
Players in Northwest Europe report that May deals for PP are settling with increases from the previous month while adding that prices are likely to follow a stable to firmer trend in June...
The global market for injection molded plastics is expected to reach US$ 277.78 bln by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Increasing demand for plastic as a packa...
Europe is likely to remain a net importer of caustic soda as capacity is threatened by the EU's 2017 deadline to make the costly switch to greener technology, Michael Trager, CEO of Germa...
Clariant is making its products available in UL's Materials Search Engine, Prospector® (ULProspector.com), so that it's easier for designers and engineers to find color masterbatches they...
Asian PVC suppliers have started to reveal their June offers to export destinations including China, Southeast Asia and India this week, as per ChemOrbis. After the May PVC business was c...
Kumho Petrochemical will continue to operate its two butadiene plants in South Korea at reduced rates of 50% for the time being, due to an ongoing lack of crude C4 feedstock, as per a com...
Ethylene vinyl acetate & (EVA) is estimated to generate global value of $12,131.4 million by 2018, as per marketsandmarket. The Asia-Pacific region is the world’s largest market of ethyle...
Kentz has won a lucrative contract to supply support services to several petrochemical plants under construction in Saudi Arabia. The Sadara Chemical Company is constructing a series of p...
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) plans to use cooking-oil and fat waste to produce plastics, expanding beyond its traditional naphtha and gas feedstock as European manufacturers seek ...
The Asian butadiene-naphtha spread narrowed to an eight-month low of US$329.38/mt Monday, following the closure of the arbitrage window to move Asian butadiene to the US Gulf Coast, as pe...
The 175,000 tpa HDPE line at the Borealis site in Burghausen, Germany, is on schedule to be shuttered this year, as per Plasteurope.com. The company said the Bavarian facility will not be...
The new 1.5 mln tpa ethylene producing Borouge 3 cracker is set to deliver its first batch of commercial ethylene in the UAE by the end of May. Expanded at an investment outlay of around ...
The Asian naphtha price spread between H1-July and H1-August cargoes narrowed to US$14/ton, the lowest level since March 20, as per Reuters data. Demand for naphtha may be lower as liquef...
PET & PBT are the main types of thermoplastic polyester resin market. As per a report by RnRMarketResearch.com, the important PET resin markets by applications are bottles, films, food pa...
The portfolio of UV-stabilized grades of glass fiber reinforced Akulon® polyamide 6 for exterior automotive parts that require very good surface quality even when unpainted is being exten...
Domestic South Korean petrochemical companies are struggling to cut their losses by shutting down manufacturing facilities amid the global supply glut, as per businesskorea.co.kr. Hyund...
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