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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...
3B-Fibreglass has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) together with Nanocyl to develop unique reinforcement solutions combining glass fibre with CNT-based sizing, enabling a breakt...
Ras Laffan Olefins Company Limited (RLOC) has officially inaugurated a state-of-the-art 1.3 mln tpa ethylene cracker facility, built at an investment outlay of US$800 mln. By using the la...
Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) is to pick up a minority stake in the Indian Oil’s planned Paradip petrochemical complex, as specified in an in-principle agreement that was reached during IOC...
Supply constraints have propped up polypropylene (PP) prices by upto US$40/ton in the Middle East and US$30/ton in India in the past week. As per ICIS, this trend is likely to continue un...
Royal Dutch Shell's largest integrated petrochemicals manufacturing hub including a new cracker at the refinery on Bukom Island and other Shell facilities on Jurong Island, has come onstr...
CRUDE OIL Light, sweet crude futures for delivery in June traded at US$85.7 on the Nymex, while June Brent crude stood at US$88.4. Earlier i...
Most Asian market players are predicting stable to firmer prices in May, owing to high upstream costs. As per Chemorbis, buyers ended the last round of business seeking discounts, while s...
From over US$400/MT, cracking margins for making ethylene from naphtha in Asia may plunge by 60% by the end of 2010. The opening of Shell’s petrochemicals complex in Singapore has added t...
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