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This week saw crude oil slightly down from 18 month high levels of US$87 a barrel all week, however, oil prices plunged by almost 3% on Friday on news that US securities regulators charge...
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has finally determined that Vietnam’s polyethylene (PE) retail carrier bags will be subject to anti-subsidy and anti-dumping tariffs. The tax...
The Indian FRP pipes and tanks market is predicted to be positive with revenue growth of 29% and shipment growth 22% in 2010, as per a report by Allele Life Sciences Pvt Ltd. The FRP pip...
New mega projects are nearing completion and scheduled to come onstream in the GCC will pose the threat of fresh competition for established overseas companies and impact petrochemical ma...
SABIC has recorded a profit in Q1-10, from a loss in Q1-09. An improvement has been seen in the performance of SABIC’s innovative plastics business, that had contributed to its first loss...
Taiwan’s state-run CPC Corp plans to relocate equipment of its oil refinery and third naphtha cracker in Kaohsiung, Taiwan to set up a large-scale petrochemical complex in Indonesia. This...
A new bio based engineering plastic broadens the use of polyamide to technically advanced applications while reducing their ecological footprint. Rhodia has introduced Technyl eXten usi...
Spot PP prices in Italy in April have risen by at least €100/ton over March in line with the €100-120/ton hike requests of sellers, as per Chemorbis. Despite sellers’ claims about achievi...
Trading is lackluster in Asia’s PP and PE markets as buyers await the onslaught of supplies from new capacities coming on stream. As per Chemorbis, buyers are waiting on the sidelines, r...
After rising over the past few sessions in line with improving demand and strong company results in USA, oil prices have steadied. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery...
Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) has put on hold, its plans to build a 300,000 bpd refinery and petrochemical plant at Visakhapatnam; after its two foreign partners- LN Mittal Group and Total, ...
Indian researchers are working towards indigenously developing blood vessels. A biodegradable polymer recently developed from Jatropha (a drought-resistant perennial plant that grows even...
In Egypt, domestic PVC producer EPC, announced another rollover on offers for PVC k67-68 at EGP5600/ton (US$1015/ton) on ex-Alexandria, cash not including VAT basis, as per Chemorbis. Th...
A constant rising trend has been witnessed in PE and PP since the beginning of the year in the Italian market, mainly on higher costs and tight supplies, as per Chemorbis. Persistent supp...
Iran’s Arya Sasol Petrochemical has planned a maintenance shutdown at its 1 mln tpa cracker at Assaluyeh. Scheduled to start mid-April, the shutdown is expected to last for two to three w...
A groundbreaking advance in sustainable chemistry has been made with the launch of DOW ECOLIBRIUM Bio-Based Plasticizers, a new family of phthalate-free plasticizers for use in wire insul...
Weakening demand has pressured a drop in spot propylene prices in USA by about 6%, amid looser supply. As per ICIS, refinery-grade propylene (RGP) for April was offered earlier this week ...
A new, breakthrough Lexan polycarbonate (PC) film technology; Lexan EFR film – that delivers non-brominated, non-chlorinated flame retardance (FR) at thinner gauges than flame-retardant p...
Saudi Kayan Petrochemicals Company plans to launch operations at its first unit - an ethylene cracker, at Jubail petrochemicals complex in the second half of 2010. The others from the 16 ...
Oman Polypropylene has restarted its 340,000 tpa polypropylene plant at Sohar. The plant was under a long maintenance shutdown for a period of about two months, resulting from a shutdown ...
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