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Aqueous suspensions of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) containing individual tubes offer interesting perspectives for a number of new applications which depend on a high electrical or thermal con...
After news of another build in US crude inventories, oil prices have dipped to slide down to US$80 in line with a strengthening dollar. Oil has fallen from seven-week highs as the dollar ...
Eastman Chemicals’ plant in Longview, east of Dallas makes more than 40 chemical and polymer products. The plant has been shut on February 20 on account of a power outage. Some equipment ...
Self-healing polymers that could extend the lifetime of automotive oils have been created by researchers at the University of Warwick. These polymers are suitable to add to lubricants and...
Plasticizers add flexibility to harder plastics, but may also migrate from these materials, raising health concerns about human exposure via medical devices or children's toys. Scientists...
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is recasting priority of its several projects in the pipeline in line with its sagging bottomline, which is forcing it to consider an equity partner for its R...
Faced with concerns of a speedy increase in supply from the Middle East and China due to rapid polyolefin supply buildout, producers from Europe and North America as well as Japan are fin...
With the recent run-up in American propylene costs and PP prices, players in China no longer find US offers attractive, as per Chemorbis. However, American PP made big inroads into China ...
The uptrend in ethylene prices in USA gained pace from the beginning of 2010. As per Chemorbis, after having posted a considerable hike of over US$275/ton in January, spot prices rose by ...
In a bid to meet rising demand, Thai major IRPC Pcl plans to invest US$1.4 bln in the next five years on expanding capacity. With annual capacity to produce 728,000 tons of olefins produc...
Naphtha economics will continue to set the prices for olefins, with any recovery not expected to be demand-led, as reported in ICIS. “No matter how bad things are in petrochemicals, ups...
In a deal that will conclude by August, Dow Chemical will sell its Styron division to US private equity group Bain Capital Partners for US$1.63 bln, as per European Plastics News. As part...
Amid strong demand and restricted supplies, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) will award a tender to sell 60,000 tons of naphtha for late March loading, anticipating a higher premium. 30,000 tons eac...
The shares of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) have spiked past the 1000 mark as reports pour in that the bankrupt petrochemicals firm LyondellBasell rejected an acquisition bid by RIL. RIL...
Arkema’s Kynar Flex covers a range of PVDF-based fluoropolymers with greater flexibility than traditional PVDF. Although similar to Kynar resins in terms of purity and chemical stability,...
As an initial March propylene contract price was settled in the European market last week with an additional increase of €35/ton from the February contract settlement, price hikes have em...
As the monthly ethylene contract settles at a rollover, sellers will not be able to fulfill their full hike targets of €50-80/ton officially sought for March PE in Europe. As per Chemorbi...
As regional trends firm, most producers have chosen to increase PVC offers in Southeast Asia. As per Chemorbis, a Vietnamese producer has increased domestic offers for March by twenty dol...
India has offered a 10% stake in Saudi Aramco’s giant refinery project in Eurasia, adding that the refinery with its strategic reserves of Saudi oil would be “of importance to us as the o...
A proposed US$4.6 bln petrochemical plant in Nova Scotia's Guysborough County is being called off, mainly due to the current economic downturn and lengthy delays. The developers behind Ke...
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