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US-based Sunoco, a leading manufacturer and marketer of petrochemical products, has reportedly decided to permanently close down its ethylene complex located at 175,000 bpd Markus Hook Re...
Sunoco plans closure of the ethylene unit at Claymont refinery that was damaged in an explosion due to pipe failure in May. The pipe failure led to release of combustible ethylene unit fe...
Saudi Arabia has warned India of possible action against India for levying upto 50% customs tariffs on its polypropylene exports. The resultant action could be similar to what the Kingdom...
Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) is expected to post a 78% drop in Q2 net profit to 1.67 billion riyals (US$445.3 mln), compared with 7.55 billion riyals in the same quarter of 2008. L...
Sumitomo Demag is closing its US injection press assembly factory in Georgia, and makes a major investment at its two plants in Germany as per a report in PRW. The factory was set up in ...
Japanese ethylene production dipped 3% in June 2009 as compared to figures for June 2008. Data from government indicates declines for the third consecutive month restricted to single digi...
Invista plans to produce nylon at Chattanooga. The company’s decision still seems unclear about the location of the operation, and could be guided after meeting with customers to determin...
Machino Polymers plans to expand its Polypropylene compounding facility by 10,000 tpa from the current 40,000 tons with the setting up of two new units at Chennai and Pune. Machino expect...
Reliance has offered spot naphtha cargo of 80,000 tons for August 6-10 lifting from Sikka. August exports are expected by many market players to be more than the previous months because o...
Economic turbulence has made a more visible impact on the automotive industry than any other. One of the most recent effects is the decision by Nova Chemicals to discontinue production of...
Korea's Samsung Engineering has bagged a major contract worth US$2.6 bln from Algeria's National Oil Company Sonatrach for the modernization of its oil refinery, located in the Skikda reg...
BASF has finalized its plans for the integration of Ciba Holding AG, which it acquired in April 2009. Under the plans, former Ciba businesses are to be integrated into the operating divis...
Hexion Specialty Chemicals has launched Albecor-Bio™, a family of bio-based, low temperature cure powder coatings. The Albecor-Bio modified polyester technology, derived from renewable re...
The Dow Chemical Company recently announced that it has further developed its specialty polyols manufacturing capability at the Freeport, Texas, plant to meet the demand for differentiate...
Abu Dhabi government-owned International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) has completed the acquisition of Canadian plastics maker NOVA Chemicals, the two companies jointly announced. ...
US-based leading supplier of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive materials, Bemis Company, Inc., has agreed to acquire the Food Americas operations of Alcan Packaging, a business un...
Sigma Stretch Film, a division of Sigma Plastics Group (US), has purchased Gloucester Engineering's first 5-layer agricultural stretch line for their plant in Canada. This line is schedul...
Borouge has awarded three main contracts worth about US$22 million to Tecnimont (Maire Tecnimont Group) for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) stage of Borouge 3 plant expansion ...
Yeochun Naphtha Cracking Centre (YNCC) plans to expand capacity at its No.3 naphtha cracker by 50,000 tpa to 450,000 tpa by next May. The South Korean ethylene maker is considering a plan...
Overshooting the original budget by about 40%, BASF and Sinopec plan to invest US$1.4 bln to expand capacity at Nanjing. Capacity at the steam cracker will be increased to 740,000 tpa by ...
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