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Japan's largest petrochemical firm, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp, is to complete repair work and plans to restart a 450,000 tpa naphtha cracker in Mizushima on January 14. The problem occurre...
Borouge and Agility Global Integrated Logistics have broken ground to set up new logistics hub in Shanghai that will receive over 6,00,000 tpa of polyolefins (polypropylene and polyethyle...
South Korea's petrochemical producers are laying impetus on moves to downsize their business operations in a bid to cope with sharply falling demand. Majors, including LG Chem and SK Chem...
Downcast downstream demand has weakened ABS market in Asia amid another plunge in feedstock butadiene prices. After the fall in butadiene values, key South Korean and Taiwanese producer...
Construction of two mega petrochemical crackers at Singapore's Jurong Island is on track. One is by Shell at an investment of US$3 bln and is scheduled for completion in late 2009/early 2...
Polyolefin compounding is the key when searching for cost cutting measures or to add value and enhance performance. The marketplace is increasingly unpredictable and industry has to be r...
World's third-largest petrochemical maker LyondellBasell, on the brink of bankruptcy, is locked in talks with creditors, two days after a deadline to renegotiate terms of its heavy debt l...
As feeble demand for its products continues to persist amid a global economic meltdown, Dow Chemical Co. plans to extend production cuts at its Freeport complex that was reduced last mont...
China plans to reduce tariff on Polystyrene import from Singapore from 6.5% to 5% in 2009, and to 0% in 2010. Singapore follows Hong Kong, and will become the second Asian economy that en...
Largest US chemical producer Dow Chemical Co. is mulling pursuit of legal options against Kuwait for canceling a joint venture agreement and plans to seek a new partner to invest in its b...
Westlake Chemical has rendered inactive, one of its ethylene plants in Lake Charles in the American state of Louisiana, running at reduced rates since Q3-08. A maintenance turnaround sche...
ENGEL North America, a world leader in the design and manufacture of injection molding machines and part-handling automation systems, has introduced the innovative new entry in its duo li...
On its 20th anniversary year (2008) entering China market, Rohm and Haas was recently named "Best Business Partner" in the China Plastics Industry by the China Engineering Plastics Indust...
Coping with the decline in petrochem demand, Formosa Petrochemical Corp (Taiwan) has put off steam its No.1 naphtha cracker (700,000 tpa) less than a month after it restarted its No.3 cra...
DSM Engineering Plastics has unveiled a new grade of Xantar LDS PC/ABS suitable for Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) applications. Xantar LDS 3710 was developed for antennas in mobile telec...
SOCAR, the state-owned petroleum company of Azerbaijan recently announced to build a 200,000 bpd oil refinery in Aligaha city of Turkey by 2012, the local media reported. SOCAR- which inv...
Leading global producer of PET bottles, Constar International Inc and certain of its subsidiaries recently filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in order ...
January shipment HDPE offers were sustained above US$860/MT CFR China as ethylene prices strengthened. CFR China offers from producers from South Korea rose to US$875/MT and from Taiwan b...
Late last month, Japan's largest petrochemical company Mitsubishi Chemical Corp shuttered a 450,000 tpa naphtha cracker in Mizushima, operating at around 90% capacity. The unplanned shutd...
Foster Wheeler Ltd. subsidiary Foster Wheeler International Corporation (Thailand branch), has been awarded contracts by MTP HPPO Manufacturing Company Limited, (a subsidiary of Siam Styr...
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