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A first-of-its-kind lifecycle analysis conducted by Germany's Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU) has found that clamshell packaging made from Ingeo™, a unique plant-de...
Teijin Limited recently announced that it will reorganize its High Performance Fibers Business Group into two new groups named Aramid Fibers Business Group and Carbon Fibers Business Grou...
The shareholders of Equipolymers, The Dow Chemical Company and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait, have announced to divest its Italian entity, Equipolymers Srl, due to disappoint...
Anticipating drastic decline in demand amid gloomy economic outlook, Celanese Corporation is considering the potential closure of acetic acid (450,000 tpa) and vinyl acetate monomer (150,...
French chemical group Rhodia has recently inked an agreement to purchase US-headquartered privately-held McIntyre Group Ltd, a global manufacturer of specialty surfactants. This acquisiti...
Freedonia predicts that plastic packaging will climb 2.4% pa over the next three years. The report also states that total demand for paper and plastic in competitive packaging markets is ...
Afflicted by pathetic resin sales that have sunk to 8 year lows, Canada's largest chemical maker, Nova Chemicals Corp. has reported a net loss of US$214 mln. Sales have collapsed by 36% ...
Reliance Industries (RIL) has given up plans to set up a 345-MW gas-based power plant at the Nagothane unit. RIL maintains that the project was shelved in the light of a directive from an...
Indian Airlines has announced a special fare for participants/visitors to Plastindia 2009 to be held at New Delhi, from 4th February to 9th February 2009. The fare is for travel in Econom...
Improving petrochemical demand in the region has coaxed Equistar Chemicals to restart an idled unit by end of month. The LyondellBasell plans to restart its La Porte olefins unit, that it...
With effect from February 1, LyondellBasell Industries plans to increase prices in Europe by €100/ton on all of its polyethylene grades. “Short term demand for these products is incre...
An inventory report showed US commercial crude oil inventories jumped 6.2 million barrels from the previous week, almost twice what was expected. Crude stockpiles in USA are building up a...
Despite the current global economic meltdown, Gulf Petroleum Ltd. plans to continue with the development of its US$5 bln (RM16 bln) integrated oil and gas complex in Manjung, Perak. Last ...
A female worker has sued Total Petrochemicals on claims that she broke her leg while working at the Port Arthur refinery because her employer neglected to teach her proper safety procedur...
As compared to last month’s figures, naphtha imports of Japan’s petrochemical sector fell by 3% in the month of December. Imports of naphtha for ethylene production totaled to 1,070,821 t...
Kraton Polymers LLC (Kraton), a leading global producer of engineered polymers, have recently announced the introduction of a new Kraton A family of polymers to meet the market's demand f...
ConocoPhillips posted a Q4 - 2008 net loss of US$31,764 mln (US$21.37 per share) compared with net income of US$4,371 mln (US$2.71 per share) for the same quarter in 2007. Revenues were U...
Swiss company and a leader in processing materials for construction, Sika AG has acquired Iotech Group Limited, with headquarters in England and subsidiaries in the UK, USA and Belgium. P...
Radici Plastics Ltda - a Brazilian company belonging to the Italy's RadiciGroup Plastics Area - has received the ISO/TS 16949:2002 Quality Management System Certification for the automoti...
Thailand's SCG Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., Siam Cement's petrochemical subsidiary posted a net loss of 4.36 bln baht in Q4 - 2008 against a net income of 7.8 bln baht in the previous year ma...
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