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Four years after being tabled, the Asian naphtha industry is closer toward finalizing the inclusion of STS, or ship-to-ship transfer details into the open spec naphtha (OSN) contract with...
Arkema and Purac on Monday have collaborated for functional Lactide-based block copolymers. These innovative block copolymers reportedly will enhance the thermo-mechanical and physical pr...
In a bid to exploit rapid demand growth in China, Thailand’s PTT Chemical is seeking an opportunity to invest in new chemical production in the country. The company, South East Asia’s lar...
A fire broke out over the weekend at GAIL’s Pata plant during a routine maintenance operation in the Crude Hexane Reboiler of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Plant Unit - I. The fire was...
Bayer MaterialScience has developed a unique concept for a “green shoe” that uses a whole host of sustainable materials and technologies. These include renewable polyurethane feedstocks, ...
Russian petrochemical companies Salavatnefteorgsintez and Kaustik will resolve their dispute over ethylene prices within two months. In the interim Kaustik will receive ethylene at 19,000...
After a week long disruption, Formosa Petrochemical has restarted an 80,000 bpd residual desulphurization unit and increased run rates to 95% at its 540,000 bpd Mailiao refinery, as repor...
CRUDE OIL Oil prices have risen to US$76.4 in the week of September 13, 2010 in New York. Shutdown of a major US pipeline delivering oil to t...
In Asia, trading activity has fallen recently as the upcoming National Day holidays in China, along with the anticipated increase in supply levels; has led many buyers to conclude that th...
Purac announces the investment in a new manufacturing facility for its biomedical polymers. The plant is meant to support the growing resorbable polymers business of Purac Biomaterials. P...
US pipeline leaks disrupted supplies and have kept oil prices hovering around US$77. Benchmark crude for October rose to US$77.2 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In London, Brent cru...
Albemarle Corporation announced that it has begun its largest capital investment in the fast growing Asia Pacific region of Yeosu, South Korea. The Yeosu site will be capable of producin...
Six industrial safety experts from USA's Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center have arrived on invitation in Taiwan to help probe the causes of two fires that broke out its naphtha crac...
Indian Oil Corp., India's largest listed company by sales, is planning a follow-on public offering by January, through which it will sell fresh shares equivalent to 10% of its equity to r...
The use of films and netting in agriculture and horticulture is increasing across South America, Africa and Eurasia, from greenhouses, tunnels, floating covers and mulch, to silage and st...
Braskem inaugurated today operations of its green ethylene plant, taking an important step forward in its strategy of becoming the global leader in sustainable chemicals. The ethylene was...
A new report from Applied Market Information provides details on the complex and varied plastic tube and hose extrusion sector in Europe with information on more than 670 companies in a s...
In 2000, global polypropylene demand was 26.6 mln tons. Demand grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 3.6% from the year 2000 to 2009 as per gbiresearch.com. The global polypropy...
Europe’s thermoplastic profile extruders accounts for around 5% of total polymer demand in Europe involving nearly 900 companies as per a plastics industry consultants, Applied Market Inf...
Demand for pharmaceutical packaging in the US (including Puerto Rico) will increase 5.5 percent annually to US$18.4 bln in 2014. Recently upgraded regulations and standards that address s...
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