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(ICIS) -- US polypropylene (PP) producer Braskem America is looking at various options now that the feedstock supply for its Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, plant has been jeopardised, the company said on ...
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(ICIS) -- A stretch of the River Rhine was reopened on Monday after two bombs from the Second World War, found near the German city of Koblenz, were successfully defused on Sunday, river authority Was...
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(BASF) -- BASF has signed a long-term agreement with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to lease laboratory and office space at the Australian Minerals Research C...
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(ICIS) -- Spot prices of monopropylene glycol (MPG) in Asia are expected to be stable, with a downside bias, as producers unload inventory amid uncertainty in the global economic outlook, market sourc...
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(PlastEurope) -- With a per capita plastics consumption of 46 kg in 2009, China's appetite for plastics was higher than that year's global per capital average of 40 kg, but still significantly lower t...
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(Lanxess) -- German specialty chemicals company LANXESS and South Korea's tier-one automotive supplier, Hwaseung Corporation, have further strengthened their business partnership. Both companies have ...
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(PlastEurope) -- Another Chinese producer has selected technology from UOP (Des Plaines, Illinois / USA) for its propylene project. Zhejiang Shaoxing Sanyuan Petrochemical (Shaoxing, Zhejiang/China) p...
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(ICIS) -- INEOS Oxide has nominated three sites on the US Gulf coast as possible locations for its planned 500,000 tonne/year ethylene oxide (EO) and derivatives capacity investment, INEOS said on Fri...
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(Lukoil) -- The OAO Lukoil Board of Directors held a meeting in Moscow today to approve the Lukoil Group Strategic Development Program for 2012-2021. According to the Program, the key objective of the...
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(Braskem) -- Braskem's Green Plastic has won the 2011 Eco Award as the best project in the Sustainability in Products or Services category. Made from sugarcane ethanol, green plastic was given its nam...
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(Reuters) - Qatar signed a deal with Royal Dutch Shell on Sunday to develop a USD 6.4 billion (4.0 billion pounds) petrochemicals complex in the Ras Laffan industrial city in the Gulf Arab state. Qata...
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(PlastEurope) -- French oil and chemical group Total plans to invest about EUR1bn in expanding its chemical activities, with half the money earmarked for petrochemistry and the other half for special ...
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(Plastemart) -- Kumho Asiana Group, led by chairman Park Sam-koo, is set to complete on Wednesday its legal separation from Kumho Petrochemical Group headed by his brother Chan-koo. As per heraldm.com...
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(Plastemart) -- Haldia Petrochemicals is working out an action plan to avoid falling into the BIFR (Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction) fold, as per the Hindu. Since a 50% erosion in pe...
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(Plastemart) -- Sasol Ltd plans to invest US$4.5 bln to build a plant usin low-cost natural gas to make ethylene and related chemicals in Louisiana. The board of directors has approved a feasibility s...
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(THE NATION) -- IRPC has earmarked Bt70 billion to invest in its Phoenix as well as non-Phoenix and maintenance projects from 2012 to 2016, with revenue contribution from the Phoenix projects targeted...
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(Arabian oil and gas) -- The Iranian government has shrugged off the latest round of oil sanctions, saying they will cause greater problems outside the country than within. Iranian oil minister Rostam...
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(ICIS) -- Asia's benzene exports to the US will likely be low in December, as in the previous two months, given a lack of price incentive to ship out products that far, industry sources said on Friday...
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(ICIS) -- The US butadiene (BD) market split again in December, market sources said on Thursday, adding that one producer refused to fully match the reduction of its three rival suppliers. The split s...
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(ICIS) -- European chemical stocks rose on Friday on talk that the eurozone leaders are close to agreeing closer economic integration to tackle the debt crisis. Investor confidence was restored after ...
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