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The North American market for commercial roofing materials was worth an estimated US$3.2 bln in 2009, and is expected to increase to nearly US$5.9 bln in 2014, for a 5-year compound annua...
Sinopec's Zhenhai refinery has put its 450,000 tpa polyethylene unit into trial run, completing the whole production line of its 1 mln tpa ethylene project.
Oil prices continue to fall as investors react to the fraud charges against Goldman Sachs and the strength of the dollar. Oil prices fell to US$83.1 on the Nymex. Oil prices had been ris...
South Korea’s major Honam Petrochemical is not too concerned about competition posed by lower-cost polyolefins from the Middle East, as supply from that region is still comparatively smal...
Futerro, a 50/50 joint venture between Galactic and Total Petrochemicals, has inaugurated its bioplastics production unit in Escanaffles, Belgium. The unit will develop state-of-the-art t...
A global C2, C3 supply glut is estimated with an increasing number of petrochem facilities coming onstream in the Middle East and Asia, particularly China. This supply glut is expected to...
CRUDE OIL The week of April 19, 2010 saw crude oil slightly down from 18 month high levels of US$87 a barrel all week. However, oil prices ...
PVC deals are settling with rollovers to slight decreases in Asia when compared with the previous month despite higher ethylene feedstock costs and firmer prices in China’s domestic PVC m...
A host of new advanced technology platforms and biopolymer solutions that meet the unique needs of the Asian market is to be introduced by PolyOne Corporation. "Asia is a major strategi...
A US$1.1 billion revenue opportunity in 2015 is forecast for thin-film and printed electronics led by their use in sensors and powered smart card applications which will comprise almost 7...
News reports indicate that companies are evaluating major investments in refining and petrochemicals, as per ICIS. Indonesia needs more capacities, as local PP capacity is able to meet on...
Naphtha imports for the petrochemical sector in Japan rose 40% in March 2010 vs March 2009. Imports of naphtha for ethylene production amounted to 1,330,333 tons in March 2010, as per the...
Oil prices rose from three-week lows on speculation of a decline in crude stockpiles in USA and on rising equity prices that buoyed investor sentiment. The report will probably show a dec...
DuPont new initiatives to support its customers in Asia Pacific has led to formation of a business unit that combines the product portfolio of Engineering Polymers and Elastomers, DuPont ...
Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd. and Tangshan Baifu Chemical Ltd. plan to form a joint venture to manufacture and sell Thioester antioxidants. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Und...
A new product family of Polyamide 6 and 6.6 based solutions for blow-moulding, developed specifically for fuel contact applications has been developed by Rhodia Polyamide. The Polyamide-b...
New product solutions in food packaging (Modified Atmosphere Packaging) are being developed by Danish converter Færch Plast using SABIC® PP. One of Færch Plast’s key challenges is to deve...
A bio based polyamide introduced by Rhodia - Technyl® eXten, is helping one of the world’s five largest manufacturers of battery cells to increase the service life of its AA and AAA range...
Propylene moved higher to US$1315/ton on FOB Korea on April 16 in Asia - a US$75/ton increase vs price levels of beginning of April and a US$40/ton increase for the week. As per Chemorbis...
New Vectra G Series that features two new cost-competitive halogen-free liquid crystal polymer (LCP) grades has been introduced by Ticona Engineering Polymers. Vectra G141 and G441 are gl...
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