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(ICIS) -- Wall Street analysts on Wednesday cut profit estimates for US chemical companies for the fourth quarter and the full-year 2012, amid slowing global economic growth, weaker demand and lower m...
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(PlastEurope) -- Less than two years after it was first founded, US organic additive producer EcoLogic (Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois) is continuing to make strides in marketing its ⌠Eco-One biodegradati...
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(MRC) -- From the beginning of the autumn, PET price from the Russian producers grew by roubles (Rb) 3,500/tonne, and made Rb64,000 - 67,000/tonne, including VAT, CPT Moscow, according to ICIS-MRC pri...
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(Plastemart) -- Petrochemical operators in Thailand are unlikely to feel much effect from the policy to collect Bt1 per kilogram of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) sales for the Oil Fund, as per The Nat...
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(Plastemart) -- Purnendu Chatterjee promoted The Chatterjee Group plans to acquire West Bengal government's 45% stake in Haldia Petrochemicals (HPL), to become its largest shareholder with management ...
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(ICIS) -- US expandable polystyrene (EPS) prices lost ground this week, slipping with the price of feedstock benzene, sources said on Tuesday. US EPS prices were assessed by ICIS at 87-94 cents/lb ($1...
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(ICIS) -- The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday revised down its global oil demand growth forecast for 2011 by 50,000 bbl/day and by 210,000 bbl/day for 2012 because of a downward adjustm...
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(ICIS) -- Widespread flooding in Thailand will shave the country's economic output this year, slowing its GDP growth by as much as a full percentage point, given the heavy disruption caused on domesti...
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(Plastemart) - Evonik Industries will build a new production plant for hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in Jilin Province in northeastern China. An investment of over Euro 100 mln in the project sees Evonik m...
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(PlastEurope) -- In order to meet the EU's preconditions for the creation of Styrolution (Ludwigshafen / Germany) - the 50:50 styrene joint venture between BASF (Ludwigshafen / Germany) and Ineos (Lau...
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(PlastEurope) -- An agreement reached between global packaging giant Sonoco (Hartsville, South Carolina / USA) and private equity firm Metalmark Capital (New York, New York / USA), under the terms of ...
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(PlastEurope) -- Technology-led plastics group Carclo (Ossett, West Yorkshire / UK) reported a solid performance in its first half-year - despite the uncertain economic environment. Results were in li...
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(Platts) -- Lower polyethylene production in Asia has failed to support the market due to weak demand, market sources said this week. "There's no impact at all," a Chinese trader said. "The market is ...
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(Arabian oil and gas) -- Polypropylene producers in the GCC face anti dumping duties in the Indian market. The Advanced Petrochemical Company has shut down its operation at its polypropylene to conduc...
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(BASF) -- At the Fakuma 2011 in Friedrichshafen, BASF is introducing an additional member of the new Ultramid Endure line of plastics. With a glass fiber content of 50 percent, Ultramid Endure D3G10 o...
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(PlasticsToday) -- The key to solving this challenge lies primarily in even lighter weight automobile construction according to Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany), which is developing innovat...
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(Arabian oil and gas) -- Iran is hoping to pipe gas from its giant South Pars field to Oman, while the sultanate works on its domestic tight gas projects. Iran news sources are reporting that a resear...
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(ICIS) -- Asia's prices of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resins are expected to decline further towards the end of the year because of an expected weaker demand for finished goods from the reg...
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(ICIS) -- Additional infrastructure in the US Marcellus shale region will be needed by 2016 to keep pace with growing ethane production and prevent a stall in the drilling of rich gas, an industry ana...
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(Sibur) -- Within the framework of the working visit to China by Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, one of the world's largest energy and chemical companies, China Petroleum and ...
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