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A day after the Chinese National Day holiday, most sellers in China elected to lift their offer levels for PP, PVC, PE and PS, pointing to the higher energy and futures market prices, as ...
Global revenues for polymeric nanocomposites were approximately US$223.15 mln in 2009, impacting a diverse range of markets such as aerospace and aviation, automotive, food, pharmaceutica...
Solvay has announced an investment of €21 mln in a new capacity to satisfy surging demand in China, in a specialty polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu in the province of Ji...
European naphtha's crack (spread between naphtha and crude oil) turned positive for the first time since March, as per Reuters. Prices found some support from the 12 day strike at France'...
Petrologistics - US propylene producer, is to begin feeding its new 500,000 tpa propane dehydrogenation unit in Houston, Texas as per Platts. Start up was originally planned for late Augu...
Iran’s exports of petrochemical products has peaked to 7.4 mln tons to US$4 bln in H1 of the Iranian calendar year starting March 21. Petrochem exports included methanol, propane and buta...
LyondellBasell Industries' 105,000 bpd Berre l'Etang refining and petrochemicals units, located in southern France near Fos-Lavera oil terminal, are operating as planned. Regarding demurr...
Formosa Petrochemical Corp has idled No. 2 naphtha cracker for planned maintenance. One of the Taiwanese majors’ other three crude distillation units, shut in late July following an outag...
South Korea’s Honam Petrochemical Corp. and Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. plan to build a polypropylene (PP) catalyst plant by the end of 2012. The plant to be built in Yeosu, will a...
Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) has concluded a term deal for naphtha supplies lifting December 2010 to November 2011, to customers including Japanese Mitsubishi Chemicals, Mitsui Chemicals, ...
Demands of the automotive industry for lighter-weight, higher-performance, lower-cost, and more environmentally-sustainable solutions, have been met with the development of a new SBC-base...
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for November delivery fell to US$81.1, while Brent North Sea crude settled lower at US$83.1. Oil prices have slipped in Asia, as investors awai...
A large union in France- CGT, has called an open-ended strike in the petrochemical industry from Oct. 12 in protest over a planned pension reform, as Reuters. The CGT, the dominant union ...
Air Liquide has signed a long term agreement with RusVinyl, whereby it will supply oxygen, nitrogen and compressed dry air to RusVinyl's new world-scale PVC plant being built in Kstovo, i...
Two new random copolymer PP grades for cast film and biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film applications have been added to its portfolio by SABIC. The new grades – SABIC® PP 622L a...
Spot PE prices in Southeast Asia have gained over the past week due to limited regional availability, higher upstream costs and improving demand, as per Chemorbis. Most players expect pri...
Lummus Technology, a CB&I Company, has signed an agreement with BP for the exclusive right to license and market BP’s paraxylene recovery and isomerization technology and catalyst. CB&I’s...
Hamburg-based trading firm Helm AG has ceased all petrochemicals trade with Iran, following a decision by the company's management last month, as per Platts. "The company management dec...
Asia remains well supplied even as Asian naphtha rose for the seventh consecutive session to a five-month high, and cracks rose to settle at their highest in four months as strong Europea...
A falling dollar has offset reports of higher crude inventories in USA. World oil prices extended gains in Asian trade- light sweet crude for November delivery was traded at US$83.4, whil...
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