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The global biopolymers market is set to witness a robust growth due to the increasing concern about environment. The biopolymers market is on a growth track because of the awareness of pe...
As the strike at Fos-Lavera oil port enters its 19th day, British petrochemical company Ineos has declared force majeure on ethylene oxide from its Lavera refinery near the port. The Lave...
Contrary to recent reports, Japan’s leading refiner Idemitsu Kosan has renewed its commitment to actively engage in a proposed refining and petrochemical joint venture with Kuwait and Vie...
The Kuwait Paraxylene Production Company has denied talk that it has declared force majeure on its benzene and paraxylene supplies to customers on production issues, as per Platts. Operat...
In Southeast Asia, traders and converters are actively searching the market for LDPE film cargoes this week, with buyers attributing rising LDPE demand to tight supplies within the region...
Idemitsu Kosan Co has restarted, on time, a naphtha cracker at its Tokuyama plant in as per schedule on Oct. 6, after planned maintenance. As per Reuters, the 256,000 tpa naphtha cracker...
Nippon Oil & Energy Corp plans to restart the 150,000 bpd No.4 crude distillation unit at its Negishi refinery. As per Reuters, the unit has been shut for planned maintenance from Sept. 1...
About 55,000 tons of naphtha is sailing to the West this week from Saudi Arabia. Last week saw 350,000 tons shipped to Europe in July to ease a glut caused by negligible demand from Asia,...
The 40th supervisory committee meeting on the No. 6 naphtha cracker ended in deadlock as the County Commissioner called for an open debate with Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) on the environ...
Solvay plans to build a specialty polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu, China. Start-up of the plant, requiring investment of €21 miln is expected in Q4-2012. The plant will...
GAIL is said to be in discussions with Russian petrochemicals giant Sibur to set up a joint polyolefins production venture in Russia, as per European Plastics News. No other details have...
Light, sweet crude for November delivery recently traded at US$83.08 a barrel on the Nymex, after rising as high as $84.12 earlier in the session. Brent crude on the ICE futures exchange ...
The total global biopolymers market by volumes is set to grow at a CAGR of 27.3% from 2009 to 2015 to reach 2,680,590 tons. The global biopolymers market is set to witness robust growth d...
After increases of €10-30/ton passed on September spot PVC deals, Italy's market started the month of October on a firm note, with sellers revealing their initial offers with rollovers to...
CRUDE OIL Crude oil prices ended the week of October 11, 2010 at US$82/barrel levels. Midweek, oil prices rose to near US$83 as investors ant...
Majority of French refineries and two major oil ports have decided to carry on with a strike against government plans to overhaul pensions. These strikes have hampered the export of polye...
Raw materials for highly transparent two-component polyurethane casting compounds that can be used to manufacture lighting strips and other lighting elements with light-emitting diodes (L...
The US market for polymeric foams will amount to an estimated 5.6 bln lbs in 2010, expected to increase to nearly 8.6 bln lbs in 2015, for a 5-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2...
Metal and glass are being replaced with plastics that offer increased benefits in automobile applications in the South African market, as per a report by Frost & Sullivan. Plastics are li...
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) plans to make vehicle liner material and other interior surfaces from a new bio-PET-based “Ecological Plastic”. Bio-PET consists of 70% terephthalic acid an...
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