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March 19 (prw) -- Specialty chemicals group Lanxess is confident that 2010 will be a good year following on from a strong final quarter in 2009. However, company chief executive Axel Heitmann said rec...
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March 18 (straitstimes.com) -- Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell will officially open its highly anticipated multibillion-dollar petrochemical complex in Pulau Bukom on May 4 - a project almost five year...
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March 18 (plasteurope) -- In an announcement limited to individual customers for now, LyondellBasell has declared force majeure for homopolymeric PP from its plant in Carrington / UK. A group spokesp...
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March 18 (telegraph.co.uk) -- Ineos Group, the privately owned chemicals and pharmaceutical company, plans to refinance around ┬1bn (GBP896m) of its senior-term debt by issuing bonds. The refinancing ...
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March 18 (yourpetrochemicalnews) -- BASF SE plans to convert its bearer shares to registered shares. A proposal to this effect will be put to the shareholders at the Annual Meeting of BASF SE on April...
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March 18 (fibre2fashion) -- The European Commission has received a request for a partial interim review pursuant on protection against subsidised imports of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from count...
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March 17 (hurriyetdailynews) -- Petkim aims high with its plans to invest $5 billion in the next three years. Currently, the company's top priority is to establish a refinery in its Aliaga complex loc...
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MOSCOW (MRC) - In mid-March prices for Russian PP-homo varied within the range of RUB51.000-54.000/mt - according to MRC Price Report.The tight Russian polypropylene market resulted in further growth ...
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March 17 (plasticstoday) -- Extrusion machinery supplier Leistritz has set up two of its MAXX twin-screw extrusion systems, and related auxiliary equipment, in its Somerville, NJ lab to process undrie...
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March 17 (adsalecprj.com) -- The new grades of Vistamaxx propylene-based elastomers offered by petrochemical company ExxonMobil Chemical has created new opportunities for customers to add value to the...
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March 17 (plastemart) -- A source from the local PVC producer EPC reported that the producer elected to maintain their offer levels for PVC k67-68 for the rest of the month at EGP5600/ton (US$1022) on...
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March 16 (yourpetrochemicalnews) -- INEOS ChlorVinyls has today announced a price increase of Euro 60 per dry metric tonne on Quarter Two 2010 caustic soda contracts. This increase is necessary due to...
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March 16 (yourpetrochemicalnews) -- Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Toshikazu Tanaka, President & CEO) announced the temporary suspension of operations at its ethylene plant in the Ichihara Works located in I...
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SINGAPORE (ICIS news) -- Shell will cut 2,000 jobs by the end of next year and plans to sell $1-3bn worth of assets in a bid to boost profits, the oil giant said on Tuesday. Downstream, the company ai...
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March 16 (plastemart) -- Negotiations are on between indebted British chemicals group Ineos and several parties to ink a deal to introduce a new investor or sell assets. Talks are at a preliminary sta...
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March 16 (plasteurope) -- Hungarian chemicals company BorsodChem could well be Chinese-owned in two years' time. After months of wrangling, current majority shareholders - private equity investor Perm...
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March 15 (StarAfrica) -- Nigeria's main armed group MEND threatened on Monday to attack oil firms such as French group Total in renewed violence in the country's restive oil-rich Niger Delta region. "...
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March 15 (prw) -- Russian oil and chemicals group JSC Alco-Naphtha is constructing what will be Russia's biggest PET polymer production plant to date in the western city of Kaliningrad. Work began ear...
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March 15 (plasteurope) -- The reorganisation plan for LyondellBasell approved by New York court on 11 March sets the stage for the group to exit US Chapter 11 on 30 April 2010. The reorganised olefin...
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March 15 (plasticsnews) -- A Taiwanese firm has developed its own version of micromolding injection machines and hopes to position them as a lower-cost alternative to German and Japanese machines that...
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