Yokogawa wins analyzer package order for Liwa Plastics Industries Complex in Oman

Yokogawa Electric Corporation 's subsidiary, Yokogawa Electric Korea, has received an order to supply an analyzer package solution for the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex, which i...

Honeywell UOP inks agreement with China's Wison Engineering Ltd. to MTO technologies and EPC services

Honeywell UOP has signed a partnership agreement with China's Wison Engineering Ltd. to jointly provide methanol-to-olefin (MTO) technologies and engineering, procurement and const...

Borealis to build dedicated automotive compounding plant in North America

Borealis has decided to build a dedicated automotive polypropylene (PP) compounding plant in Taylorsville, Alexander County, North Carolina. This decision demonstrates the continuing c...

Jindal Films Americas expanding polyester film production

Jindal Films Americas (JFA), an industry leader in the development and manufacture of high performance films for flexible packaging and labeling, and making inroads into the technical ...

Rising demand for agricultural output and packaged food products to drive global antiblock additive market

The antiblock additive market is projected to reach US$1,109.6 mln by 2021, at a CAGR of 5.7% from 2016 to 2021. Increasing population across the globe has led to a rising demand for a...

LyondellBasell breaks ground on new Polyethylene plant at its complex in La Porte, Texas

Petrochemical giant LyondellBasell broke ground on a new polyethylene plant at its complex in La Porte, Texas. The company said the plant will be its first commercial facility to use i...

Renewable foam polyethylene with new carbon reducing material

Braskem, the largest thermoplastics resins producer in the Americas and the leading producer of biopolymers in the world, along with Sealed Air Corporation, an innovative packaging, cl...

Exxon Mobil announces mechanical completion of 2 new high performance polyethylene plants at Texas

Exxon Mobil Chemical Company announced the mechanical completion of two new 650,000 tpa high performance polyethylene lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The company ex...

Dow Chemical restarts Texas LHC No. 7 steam cracker

US petrochemicals producer Dow Chemical restarted its 680,000 m tpa No. 7 light hydrocarbon cracking unit at its Freeport complex in Texas, as per sources in Platts. Three out of five ...

€11 Million expansion of robot operations by Sepro Group in France and USA

Following four years of record-setting sales growth, Sepro Group is announcing a three-phase, €11 mln expansion plan. In France, the plan will increase production capacity at Sepr...

Huntsman and Clariant Boards approve agreement to combine in merger of equals

Huntsman Corporation and Clariant announced that their Boards of Directors unanimously approved a definitive agreement to combine in a merger of equals through an all-stock transaction...

Potential for major Appalachian petrochemical industry to ape the Gulf Coast

An economic report released by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) shows that the Appalachian region could become a second center of U.S. petrochemical and plastic resin manufacturing...

Biodegradable self-expandable 3-D printed polymer stents can grow with pediatric patients

A new study demonstrates proof-of-concept for combining computational design and simulation tools with 3D printing technology to produce self-expandable polymer stents that can grow wi...

Ultra Thin 2D polymer sheet has potential for high-capacity sodium-ion battery

A new type of two-dimensional polymer that has potential for developing long-lasting sodium-based batteries has been developed by researchers at the National University of Si...

Global heat resistant polymers market worth US$16.67 bln by 2021

Polymer nanoparticles produce colourful rust protection - save energy, increase performance

Polymer chemists at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan have invented a simple coating process for coloring metals, which could save energy and lead to higher performance. The proc...

Extrusion coating/laminators as Mono Extruder, Co-Extruder and Tandem Extruder variants

In the absence of quality manufacturers of Extrusion Coating/ Lamination machines in India, responding to an ever increasing demand from the Convertors’ fraternity, Uflex launche...

New SteadyEdge PET container base combines creative opportunities with optimum performance

The use of PET is steadily gaining market share in FHPC markets traditionally dominated by HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and PP (Polypropylene). In 2016, PET packages accounted for ...

Growing use of polymer composites results in increasing global demand for nanomaterials

The growing use of polymer composites has resulted in increasing demand for nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and nanocellulose, as companies seek alternatives to carbo...

Operating capacity reduced as issues strike Styrolution's Antwerp ABS plant

A problem at Styrolution's Antwerp acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (AB) unit has reduced operating capacity, as per company sources in Platts. The complex has around 260,000 m tpa ...