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DINA-Petrokemija has started its polyethylene plant after expansion in Omisalj on northern Krk Island, Croatia at a cost of €18 mln. Capacity has been augmented from 70,000 tpa to 90,000 ...
The recent price hikes seen in polyethylenes and polypropylene in South Asia and the Middle East triggered by rising feedstock prices and robust demand are anticipated to fizzle out on bu...
South Korea has embarked upon a formal antidumping investigation into two Japanese makers of propylene oxide in response to complaints filed by SKC Ltd., the country’s sole manufacturer o...
Following Ineos Nova and BASF, Borealis has announced plans to increase all polyethylene and polypropylene prices by €100/ton with effect from 25 January. With this price hike decision, t...
In China, PP sellers complain about the sluggish market sentiment as buyers are hesitant to make purchases amidst bearish crude oil prices and the price cuts from the domestic producers a...
In Indonesia, persistent supply tightness in the country’s local PP and PE markets has pushed converters in the local market to increase pace of their purchases out of fears that tighteni...
In Europe, the propylene market remains on a bullish note, in accordance with delivery disruptions from harsh weather conditions in the region, the ongoing tightness, good demand and sque...
Demand for extruded plastics in the US is projected to grow 2.6% pa to 34 bln lbs in 2013, valued at US$23 bln (resin content only) as per Freedonia. Resins will account for 40% of the US...
Japan's Mitsui Chemicals’ 455000 tpa naphtha cracker at Osaka has sprung an oil leak that has not had any major impact on the cracker's operations. Two workers suffered minor burns in the...
Kuwait's state-run Petrochemical Industries CoPetrochemical Industries Co. has declared force majeure to customers of its aromatics plant. This decision has been triggered after last week...
Continuing its recent downtrend, oil prices have dipped below the US$78 mark on OPEC confirmation of ample supply to meet winter demand and trimmed oil demand estimates to an average 28.5...
SABIC has recorded an upsurge in Q4-09 net profit of SR 4.58 bln (US$1.22 bln) on recovering demand and prices for its key products. The Saudi major had posted just SR 311 mln (US$82.9 ml...
State refiner Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will lend Rs.5000 crore to its subsidiary Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) for it's expansion projects. MRPL plans to expa...
An innovative plastic breakable ampoule technology that will replace conventional glass-based ampoules that are opened by snapping away the neck has been designed and patented by French p...
The Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Co. (Satorp) has hired Elliott Co. to supply all 17 compressor trains required for the joint venture’s export refinery to be built in Jubai...
A bankruptcy judge in USA has given the bankrupt chemicals company Lyondell Chemical Co. time until April 15 to exclusively file a plan of reorganization. Additionally he has denied a cre...
Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd’s recently revamped naphtha cracker has seen a delay in start up by over a week. In end-October, HPL had shut its plant for a 75-day maintenance and expansion sc...
CRUDE OIL As the dollar weakened, crude oil for February delivery rose to US$78.6 in electronic trading on the Nymex, rising for the first ti...
Domestic producers have lowered their PE prices in China, especially in the LLDPE c4 film market at the beginning of the week, as per Chemorbis. Decreases of CNY200-300/ton (US$30-43/ton)...
Although January is generally a slow month for PVC demand in the Northern Hemisphere, PVC prices in Asia and the US have seen significant increases this month with sellers generally predi...
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