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(European Plastics News) -- BASF and Ineos signed a letter of intent to combine their styrenics businesses in Styrolution, a business unit announced by BASF in October. ⌠The joint venture will deliver...
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(Dow) -- Dow Brazil, global giant in the chemical and plastics sectors with operations in Brazil since 1956, announced the Technology and Market Development Center for Polyurethanes and Formulated Sys...
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(LUKOIL) -- LUKOIL published consolidated US GAAP financial accounts for the third quarter and nine months of 2010. The Company's net income was $6,820 million in the nine months of 2010 (including $2...
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- PVC prices keep on growing in North America; in December along with growing contract prices for ethylene it is expected that the resin prices will grow also in Europe, according to MR...
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(Plastemart) -- Arkema announced its 2015 targets and emphasizes its growth strategy for the next five years. At the end of this new development phase, in 2015, Arkema has the ambition to generate abo...
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(ICIS) -- Petronas Chemicals Group (PCG) shares closed 2.1% higher on its trading debut on Friday, but off highs, as Malaysian shares succumbed to profit-taking. PCG surged by as much as 10% during th...
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(Plastemart) -- Equate Petrochemicals Co. has launched the Gulf state's first green carbon project which will use over 150,000 tpa of carbon dioxide (CO2). Under the scheme, Equate will capture CO2 em...
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(Plastemart) -- An explosion at a polyvinyl chloride plant in northern China killed four people and injured dozens of others, according to government reports. The accident took place at the Yushe Chem...
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(ICIS) -- European polyethylene (PE) buyers are facing yet more price rises for next month following a ┬27/tonne ($36/tonne) increase in December's ethylene monomer contract, market sources said on Mo...
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(Plastemart) -- In a bid to boost diesel production to ease the shortage in the country, China's state-owned Sinopec has been compelled to reduce production rates at downstream polyethylene, polypropy...
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(Rhodia) -- Rhodia is announcing a new halogen-free range of flame retarded Technyl polyamides, dedicated to highly-demanding photovoltaic (PV) component applications.Photovoltaic components have to p...
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(DSM) -- DSM Engineering Plastics has developed 5 new grades of EcoPaXX, especially for injection molding purposes. EcoPaXX is a polyamide (PA) 410, and belongs to the family of the ⌠long-chain polyam...
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(Food Ingredients First) -- Leading British injection moulder, Thumbs Up (Bury), Ltd has launched a new line of food and domestic storage containers in coloured polypropylene random copolymer compound...
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(Bloomberg) -- Saudi Basic Industries Corp., the world's biggest petrochemical maker, plans to ask the World Trade Organization to pressure India to lift an anti-dumping duty it imposed on Saudi polyp...
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(Trend) -- Any form of cooperation with Turkmenistan will be suitable for French Total Oil and Gas Company, said Total CEO Christophe de Margerie at a meeting with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov....
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(PRW) -- A European ban on feeding bottles for babies containing bisphenol A (BPA) is being imposed by the European Commissions from next June over fears that additive could harm the immune system of ...
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(PRW) -- Silvergate Plastics, the North Wales colour and additive masterbatch manufacturer, has announced that the pay-related industrial action started on 17 October by 11 of its 48 employees has end...
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(BASF) -- The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has pledged ┬2.2 million in funds for a project by the BASF-supported Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa) and hte AG, a company in whi...
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(BASF) -- BASF SE management and employee representatives signed a new site agreement for the company's Ludwigshafen site. The agreement, titled ⌠Safeguarding the future through flexibility and operat...
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(PRW) -- Pafa, the UK trade association for packaging films, has warned of further raw material increases in the PET market. The association says that strong Asian demand for polyester is starting to ...
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