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(Bloomberg) -- Shell bought naphtha for first-half December at USD 874 a metric ton, according to a Bloomberg survey of traders monitoring transactions on the Platts window. The seller was Glencore In...
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(Bloomberg) -- Total SA's overhaul of its refining, petrochemicals and marketing businesses isn't in preparation for a sale, Chief Executive Officer Christophe de Margerie said. ⌠No, there is no plann...
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(MRC) -- This year, Ukrainian producer Linik increased the output of polypropylene (PP) by 29% to 70,200 tonnes. September was rather unsuccessful for Linik, though the company plans to increase PP ou...
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(Plasteurope) -- Chinese chemical giant Sinopec (Beijing) has begun work on a CNY 18bn (EUR 2.1bn) coal-based petrochemicals and polyolefins complex in Zhijin, Guizhou province. The complex will inclu...
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(Reuters) - Formosa Petrochemical Corp. will shut a 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude distillation unit and two secondary units for planned maintenance at its 540,000 bpd refinery in Taiwan from Dec...
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(Solvay) -- Solvay announced that MTP HPJV (Thailand) Ltd, its hydrogen peroxide joint venture with The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), has successfully commissioned the largest hydrogen peroxide (HP) pla...
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(ICIS) -- Spot butadiene (BD) prices in Asia look set to fall further this month as suppliers are forced to offload surplus material given reduced regional production at major downstream synthetic rub...
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(ICIS) -- US October methyl methacrylate (MMA) contract prices appear set to fall by 3.8% from September, sources said on Friday. Several buyers and one producer said they are seeing October MMA price...
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(Plastemart) -- DuPont Performance Polymers, Geneva, Switzerland, has announced that it will increase the polymer finishing capacity of Vamac ethylene/acrylic elastomer by 50% in response to strong an...
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(PlasticsToday) -- The company LightManufacturing (San Luis Obipo, CA) predicts its "Solar Rotational Molding" (SRM) systems, launched in June 2011, will "transform rotational molding from a smokestac...
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(ICIS) -- The fate of Lotte Pakistan PTA's (Lotte PPTA) investment to expand its purified terephthalic acid (PTA) capacity to 1.5m tonnes/year in the country depends on the government's decision to in...
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(ICIS) -- LyondellBasell's refinery at Berre L'Etang, France, restarted on Monday after employees agreed to return to work following a 10-day strike, the Netherlands-headquartered petrochemical produc...
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(BASF) -- The first production facilities in the $1.4 billion expansion of BASF-YPC Company Limited have now begun operations. Along with the successful completion of the steam cracker expansion, the ...
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LONDON (ICIS)--Lotte Chemical UK's plans to expand its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) operations at Wilton in northeast England to 350,000 tonnes/year has received board approval, a company source c...
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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPCC) reported a 2% year-on-year drop in September revenue to New Taiwan dollar (NT$) 47.7bn ($1.56bn), with its petrochemical operations recordi...
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(euobserver) -- EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson is set to place tariffs of 15.2 per cent on plastic bags from China and of 14.3 per cent on bags from Thailand, according to media reports.The mov...
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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Asian paraxylene (PX) market players are facing a potential ⌠non-settlement for the benchmark October Asia Contract Price (ACP), market sources said on Friday.⌠Continued negotiations...
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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Marubeni Trading Corp has signed an agreement with Kazakhstan's national chemical firm United Chemical Company (UCC) to study and develop a series of chemical projects in the central...
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HOUSTON (ICIS)--US propylene contract prices for October settled down 14 cents/lb from September, market participants said on Thursday.Market participants earlier this week predicted a substantial dro...
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(China in the news) -- China last year overtook Europe as the world's largest producer of plastics, with the eurozone slump continuing to deepen the divide, a recent study shows.According to the repor...
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