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US crude for November delivery spiked to US$70.6, increasing as the dollar weakened, and investors preferred to buy commodities to hedge against a weaker dollar. This was coupled with an ...
Overcapacity is plaguing the PET supply side, but is also enabling processors to source the material for less and use it to continue penetrating markets more accustomed to polystyrene, PV...
520,000 tons of polypropylene to come onstream as a coal-based polypropylene (PP) production project in northwest China is set to start with trial operation next year. Gasification techno...
Crude futures increases were triggered by a weaker US dollar, following reports that Gulf oil-producing states were in talks to replace it with a basket of currencies in pricing oil. The ...
A fire that broke out at Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery in May, destroying part of Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery, could have been caused by a rusted 10-inch pipe. The corrosion is reported...
The global polyolefin market is changing dramatically in response to the fast advancing industrialization process in the emerging markets, as well as improvements in global communications...
Reduced downstream demand in the region has squeezed margins of Asian naphtha makers. Cracker operators have started cutting back run rates this month, in a bid to arrest to additional fa...
In Europe, the month of September witnessed spikes in prices of thermoplastics. Polyolefins spiked by €100/ton, while supply constraints pushed up PVC by €60. EVA was flat, while polystyr...
Aside from the ongoing recession, industrial action is a major threat facing South African petrochemicals producers, with increasing friction apparent between management and trade unions ...
Thailand petrochemicals production is set to fall by 15-20% in 2009, but will make a quick recovery in 2010 when new capacity comes onstream, according to the latest Thailand Petrochemica...
India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) had offered only one naphtha cargo of 35,000 tons for end-October. The Indian major has realised a premium of eight dollars on the cargo, about half ...
Petrochemicals had passed a nadir in mid-2009, but BMI’s latest UK Petrochemicals Report forecasts that it will take some years for output to recover to pre-recession levels and during th...
Germany’s petrochemicals market will see greater stability in H2-09 but it will remain in a trough, with BMI’s latest Germany Petrochemicals Report forecasting a 12.5% decline in both sal...
Worldwide PVC demand declined by 8% in 2008, and is expected to decrease further in 2009 as per a report by CMAI. Typically, PVC demand tracks GDP, albeit at a slightly faster pace, durin...
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded a contract by Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge) to develop front-end engineering and design (FEED) for a section of the "Borouge 3" proje...
IG Petrochemicals has planned a two week shutdown at one of its PA plant at Taloja, Maharashtra to carry out routine maintenance activities. Sufficient stockpiles of PA with the company w...
Serious concern has been expressed by Thai petrochem majors over the delay of their 25 projects to meet the Euro IV emission standard. These projects are planned by 8 companies at a combi...
A polymer that expands the boundaries of orthopaedic applications such as joint arthroplasty has been introduced by high-performance biomaterials provider Invibio. So far, the design of a...
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ environmentally progressive iQ* resin platform has received the 2009 Responsible Care® Award at the Conseil Européen des Fédérations de l'Industrie Chimique1 (C...
Petrochemical plants in Indonesia continued to run smoothly despite two deadly earthquakes that rocked Sumatra island, as per ICIS. A 6.8-magnitude quake occurred on Thursday at 9:31 am ...
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