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(Plastemart) -- The Shaw Group Inc. has been selected by GAIL (India) Ltd. to provide its proprietary technology and basic engineering for a new 450,000 tpa ethylene plant. Shaw also will provide supp...
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(Plastics News) -- Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. said its board of directors has approved the acquisition of PET resin and polyester filament yarn businesses in Poland and Indonesia from South Kor...
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(Plastics News) -- Solutia Inc. will expand production of its acoustic polyvinyl butyral sheet for automotive application to its largest PVB manufacturing site in Gent, Belgium.The St. Louis-based com...
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(ICIS) -- Polypropylene (PP) buyers are being forced to pay more in December because of better-than-expected demand and restricted availability, with some producers beginning to warn of further hikes ...
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(ICIS) -- China's polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) prices may rise at the end of December on restocking activity before levelling out in early January, industry players said on Friday.Transact...
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(PRW) -- West Pharmaceutical Services, a company that makes moulded plastic components such as stoppers and vials for injectable drugs, is closing a plant in Pennsylvania, the US, and downsizing a pla...
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(PRW) -- Bayer is building a pilot plant for the kilogram-scale production of polyether polycarbonate polyols (PPPs) from the major greenhouse gas CO2 and propylene oxide. PPPs can be further processe...
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(Plastemart) -- Borouge is mulling a new compounding plant in India. With this, the Abu Dhabi based petrochemicals joint venture is set to expand its Asian footprint, as per The National. In April, th...
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(Plastemart) -- Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp has bought around 90,000 tons of naphtha for H2 January arrival at Mailiao at higher premiums compared to a previous purchase, as per Reuters. The h...
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(Plastemart) -- Arkema has announced plans to acquire the Coatings Resins (Cray Valley and Cook Composite Polymers) and Photocure Resins (Sartomer) businesses of Total's Specialty Chemicals activities...
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(LANXESS) -- German specialty chemicals group LANXESS has taken another step on its expansion course in China. The company will invest about EUR 30 million in a plant for leather chemicals to be built...
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(ICIS) -- US propylene contracts for December were fully settled at an increase of 3.00 cents/lb ($66/tonne, ┬50/tonne), market sources said on Wednesday, lifted by tight supply following a series of ...
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(ICIS) -- Petrochemical producers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region are cautiously optimistic about achieving good netbacks in 2011, they said on Thursday, supported by strong demand in e...
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Over the ten months the Russian converters invested about $83 mln in injection molding equipment which is 20% more than investments over whole 2009, according to MRC Annual reports.In ...
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Weakening of import polypropylene (PP) pressure suspended the reduction in polymers prices in the Russian market, according to MRC analysts.Succession of summer shutdowns for scheduled...
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(Arabian Oil and Gas) -- Khalid Al-Falih, president and CEO of Saudi Aramco, today called for GCC chemicals producers to double the business-as-usual estimate of US$80 billion per year for the next de...
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(PRW) -- Rompetrol Petrochemicals, a subsidiary of the Romanian oil producer Rompetrol Group, has completed a major project to integrate its polymer operations into an automated command and control ce...
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(ICIS) -- Global monoethylene glycol (MEG) markets are likely to remain robust in 2011, supported by strong demand from China and a lack of new capacity additions, a top executive from MEGlobal said l...
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(ICIS) -- The recent rise in countries' antidumping measures are likely to impede the growth and trade flows of petrochemicals from the Middle East, senior industry officials said on Wednesday.While t...
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(Plastemart) -- Saudi Aramco is in talks with prospective customers to sell paraxylene and benzene cargoes from its 400,000 bpd refinery in Jubail Industrial City in late 2013 or early 2014, as per Pl...
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