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The Dow Chemical Company has successfully demonstrated the use of recycled plastic to generate energy. The successful pilot test measured how plastic that has been reused and recycled to ...
India's consumption of petrochemicals is likely to soar on rapid growth in domestic demand for consumer items as well as construction activity, said K.G. Ramanathan, president of the Chem...
Drug-eluting stents (DES) using a biodegradable polymer can significantly improve overall clinical outcomes and reduce stent thrombosis by 50% compared with DES using a durable polymer ov...
Oltchim SA has made an offer to buy OMV Petrom SA (SNP)’s Arpechim refinery as Romania attempts to increase the company’s appeal before selling its stake in the PVC maker, as per Bloomber...
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) in talks with various entities in a bid to revive plans to set up a US$10 billion refinery-cum-petrochemical project in Vizag. This project had been...
Total Petrochemicals USA Inc., has experienced a “power blip” that has shut equipment for three hours at its refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, as per Bloomberg.
BASF will build the world’s largest single-train TDI (toluene diisocyanate) plant in Europe. The plant will have a capacity of 300,000 metric tons per year and will be fully integrated wi...
Japan's fifth-largest refiner Showa Shell Sekiyu KK and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp will build a pipeline at a petrochemical complex to supply raw materials and fuel to each other, the Nikke...
According to data from Chinese customs, China’s polymer imports declined by 20.4% in April when compared with March, while the figure for April 2011 was also 12.9% lower than for the same...
Oil prices inched higher to near US$102 a barrel in Asia amid a weaker dollar and mixed signs about U.S. crude demand heading into the summer driving season, as per Associate Press. Bench...
A commercially viable approach for turning sugar into 1,4-butanediol (BDO) using a metabolically engineered strain of E. coli has been developed by US sustainable chemicals company Genoma...
Purity ethane prices for May delivery in the US Gulf Coast market fell by nearly 2 cents on Wednesday morning, trading as low as 72.50 cents/gallon on the back of outages at some of the r...
Venezuela’s petrochemical sector reported a slight growth in sales during 2010. However, figures indicate that chemical and petrochemical industries are undergoing an testing time, with a...
Due to new accommodations and scheduled construction of new plants, global ethylene capacity is expected to outrun the demand growth and reach the mark of 162 mln tons by 2012, as per Mer...
Global shale gas production is expected to grow from 4,130 bln cubic feet in 2011 to 6,991 bln cubic feet in 2021 at a CAGR of 5.4% for the same period, as per MarketsandMarkets. North Am...
Huntsman Corporation has signed a license agreement with Chinese chemicals manufacturer Yantai Wanhua Polyurethanes Co. Ltd., for the production of Propylene Oxide (PO) and Methyl Tertiar...
For the month of May, Italy’s PVC buyers have generally witnessed rollovers to €20/ton increases over April, figures also confirmed by sellers, as per ChemOrbis. Higher costs were partly...
The month of May started with a bang for the ABS market as Ineos ABS declared it would seek a price hike of €150/ton and Styron said it would seek an increase of €110/ton above April pric...
The supply network for ethylene, an essential building block for plastics, is "finally coming back to life," as per Japan Petrochemical Industry Association Chairman. However, the same do...
The newly approved Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region for Tamil Nadu, set up at Cuddalore and Nagapattinam, has received government support of Rs 5,120 crore. This ...
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