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Oil prices and eventually naphtha prices have started to soften in Europe. Interestingly, markets in Europe anticipate a hike in Polyethylene prices next month, despite low spot prices in...
The International Energy Agency is uprevising its demand estimate for 2010 by 130,000 bpd to 86.3 million bpd, as demand increases from the booming Asian economies and the developed natio...
New Borpact BC918CF polypropylene brings higher level of toughness to transparent packaging film and sheet –now also with US food compliance. A new polypropylene heterophasic copolymer fo...
Clariant Masterbatches has developed two new masterbatches offering longer protection against oxygen and carbon dioxide permeation in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. The CESA®...
Bacteria and fungal control has become a rapidly growing concern in many industries as the recent spread of H1N1 reaches pandemic levels. Anti-microbial technology has been introduced fo...
In the new generation aircrafts of today, to save fuel and cut emissions, polymer composites are used extensively, for fuselage and other components. Several aerospace manufacturers had s...
Texas is home to several key petrochemical players - Dow, Dupont, LyondellBasell, Formosa Plastics Point Comfort and Invista (manufacturer of nylon intermediates). Though still feeble, th...
As other finance options become increasingly difficult to tap, the Gulf petrochemical industry could increase reliance on the sukuk, to finance its high-capacity new projects. As other op...
Iran’s Arvand Petrochemical Complex has neared completion and will be officially inaugurated in February 2010. The complex has capacity to produce over 240,000 tons of polyvinyl chloride ...
International Acetyl Co (IAC), a Sipchem affiliate, has exported its first shipment to Asia. IAC produces acetic acid at Jubail at its 460,000 tpa plant that also houses a 50,000 tpa acet...
Italian manufacturer Manuli has said to have launched one of the most environmentally friendly LLDPE stretch film. This film is free of PVC and plasticizers and is 100% recyclable. The fi...
LyondellBasell Industries has launched a new low density polyethylene (LDPE) resin for potential use in a wide range of injection molding and masterbatch applications. The new Lupolen 180...
An "upcycling" method of converting waste plastic bags into nanotubes has been developed at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. In this path breaking method, 1 gm pieces of high ...
Dow Chemical has completed polyols expansion at its plant at Terneuzen, The Netherlands. With this expansion, capacity at the site will increase by 180,000 tpa, raising capacity to 530,00...
Q-Chem II, where test runs are underway, will start ethylene production by end of month. Q-Chem II, is a joint venture between Chevron Phillips Chemical Qatar and Qatar Petroleum that wil...
LyondellBasell Industries, has signed a tolling and marketing agreement with Hyundai Engineering Plastics for manufacturing two latest-generation compounds using LyondellBasell's propri...
Naphtha demand in Asia peaked about two months ago, and has plateaued since. Prices have come under pressure from increased supplies due to higher refinery run rates in Japan, a weak gaso...
Gasoline prices fell by almost US$40/ton to a two month low, while naphtha has gained strength in Europe. Naphtha held premiums to gasoline in Europe, due to tight supplies in the Mediter...
A persistent uptrend in spot propylene prices in Asia, that pushed prices up by almost 100 dollars since end of October, has been arrested. From levels of US$960/MT FOB Korea in H1-Octobe...
Three new plastic grades have been added to Ticona’s product range for the food industry. The new Hostaform® C 9021 MD, Vectra® E550i MD and GUR® 4150 MD grades from Ticona are all ‘metal...
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