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Traditional "analog" thermostat temperature-control systems for vehicles will soon be a technology of the past if inventor Tom Hollis has his way. Switching to digital can manage critical...
French oil major, Total, the majority shareholder (55%) of the Vlissingen refinery (Netherlands), exercised its pre-emptive rights over the shares (45%) of this asset that were offered fo...
Cytec Engineered Materials (CEM), a business unit of Cytec Industries Inc. (USA) has formed a new group to address the growing need for advanced materials within the industrial sector. Th...
Cereplast, Inc., developer of proprietary bio-based sustainable plastics, recently announced the launch of a breakthrough bio-based foamable resin to compete with Styrofoam® and other foa...
The Dow Chemical Company (USA) and Gazprom Marketing and Trading Limited (Russia) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop and implement greenhouse gas (GHG) reducti...
Hexion Specialty Chemicals, a leader in thermoset resins, announced that it will increase prices for its unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester resin systems in North America by five cents...
In 2008, the PVC world market reached a volume of 34 million tons from demand of 24 million tons in 2000. However, the 5% annual rate of growth seen in the past will probably not continue...
Over the past decade, China has emerged as the principal manufacturing and export location for low value plastic products in the world due to low manufacturing costs and significant gover...
Vietnam is scheduled to export it's first-ever propylene cargo of 5,000 tons in H2-July to term contract buyer Marubeni Corp. of Japan, as per Platts Thursday. Marubeni is expected to tra...
Boosted by recovery in petrochemical demand, Idemitsu Kosan Co and Showa Denko are to increase run rates at their naphtha crackers. Idemitsu has hiked cracker run rates by 10-15% to about...
Weak fuel demand despite data indicating a recovery in the global economy has kept crude oil pegged at US$71 per barrel. This marks a stop to four consecutive weeks of oil price hike. The...
The Chinese polyethylene market size was US$$13,865 million in 2008 and is forecast to grow by more than 8%, accounting for nearly 17% of the global polyethylene demand in 2020 as per Glo...
Inergy Automotive Systems, a Solvay and Plastic Omnium joint venture and a world leader in plastic automotive fuel systems, is set to bolster its presence in the fast-growing automotive i...
Effective July 16, 2009, or as contracts permit, Dow Emulsion Polymers, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company and its subsidiaries, is increasing the prices of all styrene butadiene...
Leader in hot runner technology, Mold-Masters and plastic processing machinery maker, ENGEL will showcase a 10 cavity multi-material system at NPE in June 2009. A completely balanced 10 c...
France's leading chemical producer Arkema is one of the four partners of the Bioplastics Chair created at the Mines Paris Tech school, launched officially on June 18th 2009. The other lea...
Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP) finalized the awarding plan for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts that constitute the thirteen diffe...
Bayer MaterialScience LLC recently developed a new family of hydrophilic polyurethane coatings which are intended to combine lubricity and hemocompatibility with the superior mechanical p...
Korea's Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd. has announced that its new US$20 mln isobutylene (IBL) production facility, located at the Maeam site in South Korea, has been successfully commissione...
Effective July 1, 2009, or as contract terms allow, Dow Polyurethanes, a business group within The Dow Chemical Company and its affiliates including Dow Europe GmbH, will increase prices ...
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