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A new additive manufacturing process for mixing tough metals with ceramic materials and depositing, layer by layer, the mixed materials in the form of pastes could lead to stronger, heat-...
A clarifying agent for polypropylene (PP) from Milliken Chemical makes injection molded jars clearer than standard PP. Like other clarifying agents, Millad NX8000 is normally compounded i...
China could significantly reduce volume of US polypropylene (PP) imports as US made PP has become too expensive due to high feedstock costs, as per ICIS. China imported around 493,381 ton...
In 2010, PetroChina, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp plans to increase output of the Dushanzi refinery in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that commenced operations in Septe...
Turkish markets have seen more European origins offered into the market in February, as compared to January, including Central European offers which have been scarce for several months, a...
PP demand has been quite low in Italy despite price hikes of €70-100/ton as per Chemorbis. Deals have been concluded for limited volumes as buyers continue to buy at hand to mouth levels....
Spot styrene prices in Europe recorded significant increases at the beginning of February as compared to early January level, as per Chemorbis. They mostly followed a volatile trend in Fe...
Japan's naphtha imports for the petrochemical sector fell by 2.8% in January vs levels of December. Naphtha imports for ethylene production totalled 2,126,318 kilolitres, or 1,463,834 ton...
Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) plans to build a third olefins plant at an outlay of US$5 bln. The facility is being planned with an estimated production capacity of over 1 mln tpa of ...
Pakistan and the European Commission (EC) will hold consultations on anti-dumping investigations on imports of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) from Pakistan on February 23-24, 2010 in Br...
Naphtha prices in Asia fell along with naphtha cracks that dipped for the fifth consecutive session to their lowest in about one-and-a-half week. Weaker demand from Northeast Asia and an...
Polyolefin inventories in China are high with an increasing risk that tighter lending conditions will impact consumption after the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, as per ICIS. Substantial...
Germany’s plastics packaging industry saw sales decline by around 10% in 2009 to €12.5 bln, according to a report by industry association Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK),...
A subsidiary of South Korean Lotte Group – K P Chemical, has completed acquisition of UK based PTA and PET plant. Lotte Chemical UK Ltd., the unit of KP Chemical, inked an agreement to bu...
Monday morning saw crude oil prices in Asia rise past US$80 for the first time in more than a month, benefiting from positive economic data and from a tightening global market balance. T...
Strong performance of its oil refining and petrochemical businesses has propped up PTT Plc’s 2009 net profit by 15%. PTT earned 59.5 bln baht as compared to last year’s 51.7 bln bahT. How...
Reliance Industries has raised its bid for LyondellBasell to around US$15 bln from an earlier offer of US$13.5 bln, on February 19, the deadline for RIL to submit its revised proposal. In...
India has initiated an investigation on PP imports originating from South Korea, Taiwan and the US. According to a letter obtained by ChemOrbis that was sent to South Korea’s Embassy, Ind...
The month of March will kick off an unusually heavy season of cracker maintenance in Asia, expected to keep ethylene and propylene supplies tight in the region, as per Chemorbis. Simultan...
The Turkish petrochemicals industry has managed to sustain high operating rates despite the recession, due in large part to the restructuring of and investment in the country’s largest pr...
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