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Polymer exports from Thailand have been hampered by congestion of Main port at Bangkok as a result of the recent floods that hit the country, as well as production issues, as per Platts. ...
Because XIRAN® SMA has a high glass transition temperature, it is able to significantly boost performance and value of various virgin and recycled resins, particularly acrylonitrile butad...
Shell Chemicals will announce the location of its much-anticipated ethane cracker in January 2012. The company set that timeline at the Developing Unconventional Gas East Conference and E...
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec) and Kuwait Petroleum Corp have embarked upon construction of their 59 billion yuan (US$9.3 bln) joint refining and petrochemical complex in the s...
Contract and spot prices for polypropylene in Northwest Europe continued on their downward spiral this week, due to an inventory overhang and low demand, as per Platts. Gross contract va...
Showa Denko K.K. has plans to shutter its 200,000 tpa naphtha cracker at Oita for 45 days starting in mid or late March 2012, for planned maintenance.
Tosoh Corp plans to shut its sole 527,000 tpa naphtha cracker for scheduled maintenance for about 4 weeks from mid-March to mid-April, as per Reuters. Its fire-hit No.2 vinyl chloride m...
Import PVC prices in Southeast Asia have firmed up over the past two weeks as prices at the lower end of the range have disappeared and producers have started to nominate their offers and...
Malaysia's Titan Chemicals has decided that it will not be taking its two naphtha-fed steam crackers at Pasir Gudang down for maintenance in 2012, as per Platts. Its No. 1 cracker, with...
Trading activity in recent days has fallen in Italy’s polymer markets as the looming end-year holidays, imminent winter season, as well as the recent political and financial turmoil in th...
Canada's Methanex Corp, the world's largest methanol supplier, said it will shut down its plant in Egypt due to political unrest in the country, as per Reuters. The Egyptian facility star...
US gas plant natural gas liquids (NGL) production is expected to increase more than 40% over the next five years, as per a joint market study from BENTEK Energy and Turner, Mason & Compan...
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved the revised cost estimates of the Assam Gas Cracker Project to the tune of Rs 8,920 crore (on as-built-basis). The project ...
Oil prices, that have been persistently rising for the past 6 weeks, touched the US$100 threshold, rising 30% more since early October. The price run-up has led to increasing numbers of i...
Toray Industries, Inc. has succeeded in producing laboratory-scale samples of the world's first fully renewable biobased PET fiber by using fully renewable biobased PET derived from bioba...
Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc. and Penda Corp. shared the stage in Livonia, Mich. at the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE®) Automotive Innovation Awards Gala with Chrysler Gro...
Sumitomo Chemical Co plans to skip maintenance work at its sole naphtha cracker in 2012, as per Reuters. It has lowered the cracker's utilisation rate to around 90% this month due to weak...
Lackluster demand from China has impacted ethylene output in Japan, as producers reduce run rates to cope with the weak markets. Overall, the industry's utilization rate for ethylene plan...
Marubeni plans to build a large petrochemical complex with Russia’s Gazprom in the Russian city of Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai, according to local media reports. Japan’s Marubeni is one of A...
After a prolonged period of steady price decreases mainly due to lackluster buying interest, import PP prices in Asia have started to firm up, as per ChemOrbis. Higher crude oil and spot ...
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