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Lower feedstock costs have put pressure on PET prices n Asia, particularly in China, where lower domestic prices have been observed, as per Chemorbis. Retreating crude oil prices have mod...
As per current status, Asia is expected to receive 200,000 tons of Western naphtha. This is less by 100,000 tons from May levels, and seems insufficient to meet healthy demand at a time w...
Scientists have created an artificial material that mimics the tough, stretchy properties of muscle – a potential application as a "scaffold" to aid muscle regeneration. A US-Canadian tea...
A series of unplanned cracker and derivative issues in Europe are driving ethylene (C2) and propylene (C3) markets in opposite directions, as per ICIS. Currently, cracker reductions are r...
Celanese Corporation’s Advanced Engineered Materials business has completed a transaction to acquire two product lines, DuPont Zenite liquid crystal polymer (LCP) and Thermx polycyclohexy...
Over the past 3 days, crude oil futures on the Nymex have lost more than six dollars a barrel, dropping below US$80/barrel for the first time since mid-March. As per Chemorbis, crude oil ...
Driven by stronger demand in the Asia Pacific region, growth in the global LDPE market will return in 2011 according to Ceresana Research. The primary markets for LDPE (low density polyet...
After five years, many Gulf Coast residents are still struggling to get back on their feet following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. To help, SABIC Innovative Plastics – working wit...
The construction industry is the largest market for expanded polystyrene (EPS), with a worldwide share pegged just less than 60%. This sector‘s importance will continue increasing, to 66%...
Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemicals JV- Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co plans to shut all units at its complex for 45 days during Q2-2011, for regular test and inspection. This is in...
From H2-2010, Qatar International Petroleum Marketing Co (Tasweeq) will increase by 70,000 tons, the monthly exports of plant condensate (light naphtha), from Ras Laffan to 220,000 tons, ...
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC, a joint venture between DuPont and Tate & Lyle, plan expansion at their Loudon, facility to increase production of bio-based 1,3 propanediol (Bio-PDO...
Arkema and Toyobo are to enter a JV to develop high-temperature polyamides made from renewable resources. Under this collaboration, Arkema and Toyobo will promote a new generation of high...
Two new grades of halogen-free flame-retardant (HFFR) TPEs have been introduced by PolyOne GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers, to meet their goals of providing halogen-free materials for comput...
In first few days of May, the market has seen two major crackers coming onstream in Asia and the Middle East - Shell Chemicals’ 800,000 tpa ethylene cracker in Singapore followed by Ras ...
Crude oil for June delivery plunged by US$3.45 to US$82.74 a barrel, breaking a four-day rally. Prices dropped sharply as a stronger dollar, propped by renewed concerns over European sove...
Pressured by a sharp fall in US spot ethylene prices, April ethylene contracts slipped down by US$66/ton in USA amid largely steady production costs in April, as per ICIS. The settlement,...
ACN prices have spiked to US2500/ton CFR Asia, rising by US$300-$400/ton over the past three months on a supply crunch triggered by maintenance shutdowns in the region, rising propylene c...
Sinopec, SABIC JV in China; Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (SSTPC) is using METEOR process technology from Dow Chemical Co. to produce ethylene oxide (EO) / ethylene glyco...
State owned Indian Oil Corp. is expected to reduce naphtha exports by about 37% on increased captive consumption with the start up of its US$3.2 bln petrochemicals facility at Panipat. Th...
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