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Markets where the Eid holidays were being celebrated last week are returning to business this week amidst big changes in market dynamics. Just prior to last week’s holidays, the Chinese ...
" In the U.S., these plastic products are typically not made of vinyl and therefore are not made with phthalates: food packaging, baby bottles and nipples, plastic water bottles, plastic ...
Thai Oil Pcl plans to spend US$500 mln - 1 bln from 2011 to 2015, mainly on paraxylene capacity expansion and new machinery. Under the plan, the company will spend US$300-400 mln in 2011 ...
Siam Cement Group's petrochemical project in Vietnam will face another delay, in wait for the new government to be elected and formed in March. SCG is the leader of the consortium working...
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December fell to $US81.5 per barrel, while Brent North Sea crude dipped to $US84.3 in London. Oil prices have dropped towards e...
Idemitsu Kosan Co has restarted its 374,000 tpa naphtha cracker at Chiba. The plant had an emergency shutdown for six days due to an unspecified problem with the unit. On spec production ...
INEOS has embarked on restarting one of its Chocolate Bayou crackers in Texas, which were downed by lightning on 1 November. Outage at this plant triggered a significant rally in ethylene...
As part of its ongoing process to serve the booming manufacturing sector in China, Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest €110 mln to build five new downstream facilities in China by 2012....
An investment of US$3 bln has been planned by a consortium of six towards building of a pipeline to transport ethanol from Riberao Preto to local markets and for export. About 20 million ...
Formosa's decision to delay start up of its naphtha cracker has weighed on cracks which eased to a two-session low on Friday at US$159.5/ton premium from a 8-1/2 month high the previous d...
Asia's number one naphtha buyer Formosa Petrochemical Corp has delayed the restart of its 1.03 mln tpa No. 2 naphtha cracker due to minor leakages. The cracker has been shut since Oct. 5 ...
Asian naphtha prices sank to two week lows as cracks recovered to peak to an 8-1/2 month high, defying earlier expectations that incoming arbitrage cargoes would weigh on sentiment, as pe...
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) plans to build a new plant with 200,000 tpa polypropylene capacity at its chemical subsidiary Azerikimya. The expansion plan is envisaged in ...
Term finance for Pakistan's first ever Bi-axially Oriented Poly Ethylene Terephthelate (BOPET) plant has been announced. Faysal Bank Ltd and National Bank of Pakistan will provide finance...
Arkema plans to invest US$110 mln over 3 years in its Acrylics sites in Clear Lake and Bayport, Texas. This plan will target acrylic acid and its esters, and will focus on growth opportun...
Russian oil group Lukoil’s subsidiary Karpatnaftochim’s new electromembrane chlorine plant has started up at its Ukrainian site with capacity to 200,000 tpa of caustic soda and 180,000 tp...
Middle East petrochemical producers are not a real threat to Indian companies and they will still be able to compete, as per head of marketing at India's ONGC Petro additions Limited, in ...
The degradable plastic industry has been on the verge of commercial success for decades. However, demand growth was limited because most degradable plastics were too expensive, were unava...
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has recently begun a scoping project with the aim of enabling retailers and brands to use recycled polypropylene plastic in food packaging. Polyp...
South Korea's SK Energy has begun test runs on a steam cracker at its Ulsan complex that utilizes experimental technology, as per Platts. The cracker uses naphtha as the primary raw mater...
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