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Oil prices gained as markets assess impact of numerous international crises on world energy demand. Focus is shifting between Japan's crisis and rising tensions in Bahrain. Benchmark crud...
Demand for rigid bulk packaging is projected to reach US$6.7 bln in 2015, as per Reportlinker. Increases will accelerate from the performance of the 2005-2010 period, reflecting improved ...
With effect from April 15, 2011, Celanese EVA Performance Polymers Inc., a subsidiary of specialty material company Celanese Corp. will increase price of all grades of Ateva Ethylene Viny...
Open-specification naphtha for delivery to Japan retreated for a fourth day to US$927/ton, its longest decline since Dec. 31, as per Bloomberg. Asia naphtha capped the longest losing stre...
Japan Polyethylene’s polyethylene (PE) plants at Kashima and Kawasaki remain shut in the wake of the 11 March earthquake. The affected facilities comprise a 60,000 tpa low density PE (LDP...
Oil prices have fallen below US$$100 for the first time in two weeks as investors turn to safer assets on concerns that Japan’s widening disaster could lead to a global economic slowdown....
Expansion of the West Virginia chemical industry via byproducts of the potential Marcellus shale natural gas boom has moved closer to realization this week. NOVA Chemicals Corporation and...
Kazakhstan is in talks with South Korea’s Hanwha Chemical Corp., Japan’s Marubeni Corp. (8002) and the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government as it seeks financing for a US$4.4 bln po...
Saudi Kayan has started trial production of polycarbonate at Jubail Industrial City. PC capacity is slated at 260,000 tpa.
Japan Polypropylene’s production site at Kashima has been badly affected by the tsunami triggered by the 11 March earthquake with major infrastructural reconstruction required, as per ICI...
Players in Southeast Asia and India are predicting significant upward movement in both local and import PVC prices for the month of April based on widespread concerns about possible VCM s...
OIL In a volatile week, oil prices on the Nymex, ended the week at levels above US$100. During the week ended March 14, 2011, Libyan govern...
State-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) plans to shut for repairs some of its secondary units and a naphtha cracker plant at northern Panipat refinery in the next fiscal. The refinery has ...
As of now Japan needs only middle distillates for reconstruction, so naphtha- and gasoline-rich crudes from the Middle East are going to suffer. Values of condensates may be particularly ...
Petrochemical prices in Asia surged as buyers in Japan seek front-month cargoes, as per Platts. Last weeks’ earthquake and tsunami has taken much of the petrochemical infrastructure offli...
Saudi Arabia has set up a technical panel as part of its drive to defend itself in an anti-dumping row with the 27-member European Commission. The high-level technical panel will work and...
Six Japanese refineries capable of processing almost 1.4 mln bpd of crude oil have been shut after Japan’s natural disaster, as per Dow Jones Newswires. These six complexes are located in...
Coca Cola and Danone are among top PET brand owners confirmed to speak at CMT’s CEEPET & Balkans Markets conference on 30-31 May 2011. Into its 12th year, CMT’s Central & Eastern Europe P...
DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers is announcing for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, a price increase of up to 15%, depending on the grade, on all grades of DuPont Ethylene Copolymer...
The European naphtha cargo range fell by US$31/ton in line with lower crude oil prices and a weaker crack spread caused by fears of the impact of the massive earthquake that hit Japan on ...
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