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(ICIS) -- China's annual imports of plastics fell in March because of higher prices, which in turn, provided strong opportunities for exports, industry sources said on Tuesday. The country imports hun...
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(ICIS) -- US-based Dow Chemical is building its on-purpose propylene plant as a strategy to ensure reliable feedstock supply for its downstream products, a consultant said on Monday. Dow announced pl...
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(BP) -- BP Exploration & Production, Inc. signed a ground breaking agreement with federal and state agencies that will accelerate work starting this year to restore areas of the Gulf of Mexico that we...
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(Recycling International) -- A joint-venture PET recycling plant that Coca-Cola Co. opened with great pride two years ago in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, has been closed down, according to a repo...
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(Plast Europe) -- Belgium's Fremach - a producer of plastic components for the automotive and E&E industries - plans to invest EUR 8-10 mln into building its own production and storage facilities in T...
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(Plast Europe) -- Thai chemical giant Indorama Ventures (IVL) board decided on a 220 KTa Brownfield expansion of PET production in Europe. Indorama did not specify which of its five European sites wou...
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(ICIS) -- Dow Chemical plans to build a world-scale ethylene plant on the US Gulf coast for start-up in 2017, the US-based chemicals major said on Thursday. The plant will be part of a plan to integra...
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(ICIS) -- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) polypropylene (PP) makers announced their May offers this week at levels similar to, or at USD10-20/tonne (EUR 6.90-13.80/tonne) higher, than those for April s...
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(ICIS) -- AkzoNobel on Thursday reiterated its target to achieve an above-5% increase in revenue and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) this year. Keith Nichols, Akz...
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(Plast Europe) -- Belgian distributor Resinex has spruced up its portfolio by adding additional polyamide (PA) grades produced by Rhodia. A company spokesman told Plasteurope.com that the agreement co...
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(LUKOIL) -- Vagit Alekperov, President of Lukoil, and Eduard Khudainatov, President of Rosneft, in the presence of Igor Sechin, Deputy Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation, signed an Agreement on ...
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- As a result of limited offer and high level of prices in the external markets imports of suspension PVC to the Ukrainian market reduced by 26% in March, according to MRC DataScope. In...
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- In March supplies of PET-granulates to Ukraine reduced almost by third and made about 10 KT, according to MRC DataScope.Most of deliveries were made in February. At the end of Q I ov...
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(Plastics Today) -- The plastic bottle blowmolding giant is adding to its presence in the machine manufacturing market with its decision to purchase Techne, an Italian manufacturer of extrusion blowmo...
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(PressTV) -- Toyota said Wednesday that it would reduce its production by 70% from April 26 to June 3, the state-funded BBC reported. The company's North American plants now operate on four-hour shift...
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(ICIS) -- Ongoing high naphtha prices in Europe are continuing to push down demand for the product, sources said on Wednesday. Driven by crude oil price hikes, naphtha reached a 33-month high on 8 Apr...
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(ICIS) -- One year after the BP rig disaster, federal regulators are urging further safety and containment measures, the energy industry complains of slow permitting, and members of Congress and the p...
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(Ceepackaging) -- Polymer layers in packaging films may soon be able to be replaced by a new bio-based material made from whey protein. This material has excellent techno-functional properties. At the...
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(PlastEurope) -- Specialist composite materials supplier GRPMS has signed a distribution agreement with Sigmatex for its range of carbon fibre textiles. The agreement covers the UK, Eire, France, Scan...
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(PlastEurope) -- German industrial packaging manufacturer Schutz at the end of April inaugurated a new production plant in Tianjin (China), the company's second in the People's Republic. Once operatio...
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