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With 27% of Middle East’s total production, Iran is the region’s second largest producer of petrochemicals, after Saudi Arabia. Qatar with 9% and Kuwait and Oman (each by 5%) are third an...
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has been selected by the Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. (Takreer) to provide key technology for a new petrochemical production unit in the United Arab Emirates. ...
CPC Corp. shut a naphtha cracker at Kaohsiung, because of reduced ethylene demand from customers who are experiencing output disruptions, as per Bloomberg. The state-owned refiner’s No. 4...
JG Summit plans to export about a third of its polyethylene production when its naphtha cracker comes onstream in 2013. As per Manila Standard, the plant is to expand its annual PE produc...
At their latest annual General Assembly, the members of the European association for Single ply Waterproofing membranes (ESWA) expressed their deep concern about the dramatic increase of ...
Middle Eastern producers started to pronounce new July sell ideas in Egypt’s PP and PE markets at the beginning of last week. Towards the end the week, actual offer levels that surfaced a...
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been appointed by BASF Polyurethane (Chongqing) Company Limited and Chongqing Chemical and Pharmaceutical (Group) H...
Demand from the petrochemicals sector for European naphtha weakened at the end of last week, as end-users are well covered until August amid a falloff in buying further downstream, as per...
Yeochun NCC Co. has purchased 50,000 metric tons of naphtha for delivery in mid-August, while Samsung Total Petrochemicals bought H1-August open-spec naphtha through tender, a day after i...
Nova Chemicals is considering new world-scale polyethylene plant in Sarnia-Lambton by 2017. The project is one of two potential polyethylene facilities on which the company has begun feas...
For Saudi Arabia to expand its petrochemical industry, there is a need to find competitive new feedstocks to offset a gas shortage. The Kingdom’s natural gas consumption has risen sharply...
Asahi Kasei Chemicals held a groundbreaking ceremony in Jurong Island, Singapore, for the first phase of construction of a new plant to produce solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubb...
As scheduled, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp has restarted the 375,000 tpa No.1 naphtha cracker at its Kashima plant, as per Reuters. The cracker had been shut after the Kashima complex was da...
Formosa Petrochemical Corp. has deferred over 1 million metric tons of naphtha imports because of the shutdown of one of its crackers, as per ICIS. A cargo of at least 600,000 tons of n...
An MOU for a multi-billion dollar petrochemicals project was signed by prominent US and Egyptian companies, as per Dailynewsegypt.com. Basil El-Baz, founder and CEO of Egypt Basic Industr...
Nova Chemicals plans to expand polyethylene (PE) operations at its Joffre facility near Red Deer and in Sarnia, Ont. Engineering and feasibility studies are expected to be complete in 201...
Players in China are beginning to speculate that the country’s PE market may be nearing the bottom of its ongoing downward trend following seven consecutive weeks of declining prices as p...
Samsung Engineering has been awarded a contract worth US$229 mln for a high-density polyethylene plant (HDPE) by OPaL (ONGC Petro Additions Ltd.), a subsidiary of ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas ...
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ versatile, high-performance Ultem* polyetherimide (PEI) fiber has found an important new application in high-end work wear and protective clothing. Japan Wool T...
Worldwide market value of thermal interface materials will be US$426 mln in 2011 and is estimated to reach US$627 mln by 2016 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8% over the five-y...
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