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Spot ethylene values in Asia are on the decline for a second consecutive week, dipping from 17 month highs of US$1400/ton amid weak derivative demand, raising concerns of a sustained pric...
Crude oil and natural gas prices rose yesterday as severe winter gripped most of USA. Crude oil futures on the Nymex rose past US$75, while ICE inched above US$73. Crude oil also gained a...
KBR has been awarded a contract by Eleme Petrochemicals Co. Ltd (Eleme) to provide technology licensing and engineering services for the revamp of Eleme's 550,000 tpa ethylene plant at Po...
A shutdown for a planned maintenance has been implemented at a 340,000 tpa polypropylene (PP) plant operated by Oman Polypropylene. Shut since first week February, the plant will remain o...
Haldia Petrochemicals’ capacity expansion project - Supermax is nearing completion, with production likely to start production over the weekend. Upon stabilization of production within a ...
Demands for sustainability and higher shelf life in packaging are pushing the film industry in two directions – towards biodegradable barrier films and to long-life films that extend prod...
Braskem SA, that agreed to acquire Sunoco Inc.’s US polypropylene business, has no immediate plans affecting the company’s La Porte facility. La Porte is Sunoco Chemicals’ largest plant a...
Composites industry in India, after recording impressive growth during last 5 years is now poised for a take-off as per reportlinker. In the past few years the industry has witnessed a gr...
Latin America’s biggest petrochemicals producer Braskem SA is likely to get approval from Brazilian antitrust regulators to buy Quattor Petroquimica SA. Brazil’s antitrust agency, known a...
After months of negotiations, state-owned Romanian chemicals producer Oltchim has finally agreed to acquire Arpechim, the petrochemicals business of Romania’s biggest oil and gas group Pe...
Chandra Asri, Dow Chemicals, Pertamina, Polytama and Try Polyta plan to invest a total of US$1.12 bln in 2010 in Indonesia as per an association of olefin and plastic industries. The proj...
Upward pressure prevails in the local and import markets in Egypt despite poor demand, as per Chemorbis. Most buyers prefer to defer fresh purchases, or meet their requirements in small v...
Under upward pressure from Asia, the Turkish market had seen a noticeable jump in Asian offers, with prices for February cargoes rising to US$1120/MT CFR Turkey at the end of January, as ...
INEOS Technologies has licensed its ‘Innovene PP Process’ for the manufacture of polypropylene homopolymers, random and impact copolymers and the ‘Innovene G Process’ for the manufacture ...
The Thai government plans to submit a new petition within a week seeking court approval for test runs for 16 of the suspended Map Ta Phut industrial projects. Most of the projects are lin...
Technological developments in the electronics and semiconductor industries have led to the creation of polymers that change shape on the application of voltage. The biggest application fo...
Reflecting weaker sentiment, spot paraxylene (PX) prices dropped almost 12% in the past month and breached the psychologically mark of US$1000/ton, as most end-user requirements for the m...
The market for bioplastics is defying the economic downturn as brand owners worldwide continue to invest in the technology, according to the chairman of the European Bioplastics board in ...
A series of advanced medical-grade elastomers that provide the first fully practical alternative to PVC for many tubing applications has been introduced by Teknor Apex Company. The Medali...
An unplanned shutdown at Thailand’s PTT Chemical PCL’solefins plant due to power problems, will affect about 40% of its total production, amounting to 700,000 tons. The company needs a co...
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