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Bayer MaterialScience has received regulatory approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Baytubes®, its multi-wall carbon nanotubes. This enables the company to sell...
Colombia's largest integrated oil company Ecopetrol, S.A. announced that its capital investment plan for the year 2009 will total US$6.2 bln, which represents a 35% increase as compared t...
As against the previous naphtha cargo sold to Glencore at a discount of US$15/ton, India's state-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) on Friday has accepted to sell 30,000 tons of naphtha at a pre...
NatureWorks LLC, a biopolymer company and a JV between between Cargill (U.S.) and Teijin Limited (Japan) has unveiled Ingeo™ 3251D, a new and improved injection molding grade of Ingeo™ bi...
Brazil's Braskem, a leader in Latin American thermoplastic resins industry announces that it's Board of Directors has approved the R$500 mln Green Polyethylene Project. This project will ...
Eastman Chemical Company announced a series of actions to be taken to respond to current economic conditions while continuing to pursue its plans for growth. The company said that it will...
BASF has planned to augment its production of low molecular weight, highly reactive polyisobutene (HR PIB) between now and 2010 by 25,000 mtpa. The polymer, marketed worldwide under the G...
Germany's Röchling Group has acquired a Mexican company that specializes in the production of smart cards. The acquired company, Haas Smartcard S.A. (HSC), previously a subsidiary of HKR ...
Effective January 1, 2009, LyondellBasell Industries will increase prices by EUR 50/ton in Europe on all of its polyethylene grades, the company announced in a statement.
Equistar Chemicals, LP, an indirect subsidiary of LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A. will temporarily idle its olefins unit at Chocolate Bayou, Texas, citing declining market and economi...
India's state-owned Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) have inked a memorandum of understanding with oil refiner Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to perform a techno-economic feasibility study...
Eastman Chemical Company and SK Chemicals Co., Ltd. have inked a 80:20 joint venture agreement to form a new company, Eastman Fibers Korea Limited for construction of a cellulose acetate ...
Foster Wheeler Ltd. subsidiary Foster Wheeler International Corp. (Thailand branch) has been awarded contracts by MTP HPPO Manufacturing Company Ltd., a subsidiary of Siam Styrene Monomer...
A scientific panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has claimed that the specific use of titanium nitride (TiN) nanoparticles in a material used to make polyethylene terephtha...
Light, sweet crude for January delivery is down to US$40.06 on the New York Mercantile Exchange- a price last seen in July 2004. Despite an announcement by OPEC of a record production cut...
Lucite International's Singapore based 120,000 tpa methyl methacrylate (MMA) unit that Foster Wheeler designed and built has started production ahead of schedule. The factory produces MMA...
The 600,000 tpa ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol (EO/EG) production unit of The Kuwait Olefins Company (TKOC) complex is employing the Meteor EO/EG process. The plant, known as EG-2, is par...
As demand continues to deteriorate amid a global economic meltdown, Lanxess plans temporary production cuts and shutdowns at 23 of its 45 sites in Germany over the Christmas and New Year ...
Central European countries have been experiencing strong economic growth over the last 5 years as a result of both the benefits of the EU membership and a relocation of many production fa...
Westlake Chemical Corporation, Houston-based petrochemical company has provisionally idled one of its ethylene plants in Lake Charles, Louisiana citing customer inventory destocking and d...
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