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Sinopec Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sinopec Group has plans to increase the capacity of its Fujian refinery by 100% to 480,000 bpd between 2010 and 2015. The JV between Sinope...
According to Japan's Ministry of Finance, the country's crude oil imports jumped 2.8% YOY in July amounting to 20.3 mln kiloliters, as of Thursday. July imports of naphtha and gasoline in...
IRPC, Thailand's largest petrochemical maker by sales has decided to keep aside an outlay of US$158 mln for the capacity expansions of its two specialty grade petrochemicals-ABS and PP-th...
Mitsubishi Electric Corp plans to separate and recover polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS) and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) with a purity of 99% or higher from the plastic mixtu...
Notwithstanding weak sentiments, Indian majors Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) have managed a double digit premium on naphtha for Septem...
Although the hype surrounding polymer nanocomposites has been in full-throttle for over a decade, so far the market for these new materials has been relatively slow to develop. However, a...
In a move that will secure material supply, DSM Engineering Plastics plans to acquire the polymerisation assets of Diolen Industrial Fibres BV, including polyester polymer production unit...
South Korea's largest ethylene producer Yeochun NCC Co. (YNCC) has partially restarted its 555,000 tpa No. 2 plant. The unplanned shutdown was caused on the same morning by a compressor f...
South Asian Petrochem Ltd has entered into a License Agreement with Japan's Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation (AKC) to construct a 1,30,000 tpa Polycarbonate plant using AKC's environment...
A team led by Wendelin Stark, assistant professor at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering of ETH Zurich has developed a self-disinfecting polymer that is effective against pathog...
Australian packaging company Amcor has announced a 9.4% increase in profit after tax and before significant items (PAT) of AUS $369 mln for the year ended June 2008. This increase carries...
Swiss manufacturer of polyolefin foams, Sekisui Alveo along with Foam Techniques Ltd. has come out with a new insulation system for reducing the engine and noise reduction for vehicles. T...
Taking a vital step towards sustainability, ConAgra Foods - one of North America's leading packaged food companies has decided to use the post-consumer recycled plastic in its frozen meal...
Malaysia's Tanjung Langsat Oil Port Terminal near Pasir Gudang has two of its eight petrol tanks ablaze with fire. As per a police chief, one of two tanks (tank one) containing 17,800 cub...
Record high Asian PP prices which surged past US$2000/MT in the first week of July, have witnessed a major drop of US$300 since then. Owing to transportation curbs in China during the Oly...
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative value creating plastic solutions and Uponor, a leading supplier of plumbing and heating systems, have announced at the World Water Week in Stock...
PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (PetroChina Sichuan) has selected UNIPOL ™ Polypropylene Process Technology from Dow Technology Licensing for its new 450,000 tpa polypropylene ...
A Schulman Inc. plans to expand its North American Polybatch® manufacturing operations with a new plant at the site of its existing distribution warehouse in Akron, Ohio. With the setting...
Weakened by a down economy, the nearly $14 billion market for polystyrene and polyurethane foam may see its resurrection in the move toward sustainable and green construction products, ac...
Sinopec has embarked on a strategy to elevate market sentiments in China by introducing production cuts this month. This move, aimed to shrink polyolefins inventories through production c...
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