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March 22 (plasteurope) -- As of 1 April 2010, Dow Europe will raise the prices of its polyethylene resins across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. Whereas LDPE will cost an additional EUR 80/...
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March 22 (plastemart) -- Plant contractor Hyundai plans to hand over a 150,000 tpa polypropylene plant in Dung Quat oil refinery complex to the investor PetroVietnam. About 99.4% of construction has b...
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March 19 (plastemart) -- An unspecified problem has compelled a sudden shutdown at Haldia Petrochemicals' newly revamped 676,000 tpa naphtha cracker. The duration of the shutdown is not certain.HPL re...
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March 19 (plastemart) -- Saudi Aramco is mulling a change in the location of its US$17 bln petrochemicals complex planned at the Gulf port of Ras Tanura, as per Meed. The company is faced with major d...
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March 19 (plastemart) -- Technical issues have pushed INEOS to declare force majeure from its Grangemouth PP plant in the UK on 16 March. This has compounded an existing tight supply caused by shortag...
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March 19 (adsalecprj.com) -- LyondellBasell announced yesterday (March 18) the North American commercial launch of a new low density polyethylene (LDPE) resin at the Applied Market Information's Polye...
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March 19 (prw) -- Specialty chemicals group Lanxess is confident that 2010 will be a good year following on from a strong final quarter in 2009. However, company chief executive Axel Heitmann said rec...
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March 18 (straitstimes.com) -- Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell will officially open its highly anticipated multibillion-dollar petrochemical complex in Pulau Bukom on May 4 - a project almost five year...
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March 18 (plasteurope) -- In an announcement limited to individual customers for now, LyondellBasell has declared force majeure for homopolymeric PP from its plant in Carrington / UK. A group spokesp...
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March 18 (telegraph.co.uk) -- Ineos Group, the privately owned chemicals and pharmaceutical company, plans to refinance around ┬1bn (GBP896m) of its senior-term debt by issuing bonds. The refinancing ...
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March 18 (yourpetrochemicalnews) -- BASF SE plans to convert its bearer shares to registered shares. A proposal to this effect will be put to the shareholders at the Annual Meeting of BASF SE on April...
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March 18 (fibre2fashion) -- The European Commission has received a request for a partial interim review pursuant on protection against subsidised imports of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from count...
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March 17 (hurriyetdailynews) -- Petkim aims high with its plans to invest $5 billion in the next three years. Currently, the company's top priority is to establish a refinery in its Aliaga complex loc...
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MOSCOW (MRC) - In mid-March prices for Russian PP-homo varied within the range of RUB51.000-54.000/mt - according to MRC Price Report.The tight Russian polypropylene market resulted in further growth ...
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March 17 (plasticstoday) -- Extrusion machinery supplier Leistritz has set up two of its MAXX twin-screw extrusion systems, and related auxiliary equipment, in its Somerville, NJ lab to process undrie...
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March 17 (adsalecprj.com) -- The new grades of Vistamaxx propylene-based elastomers offered by petrochemical company ExxonMobil Chemical has created new opportunities for customers to add value to the...
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March 17 (plastemart) -- A source from the local PVC producer EPC reported that the producer elected to maintain their offer levels for PVC k67-68 for the rest of the month at EGP5600/ton (US$1022) on...
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March 16 (yourpetrochemicalnews) -- INEOS ChlorVinyls has today announced a price increase of Euro 60 per dry metric tonne on Quarter Two 2010 caustic soda contracts. This increase is necessary due to...
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March 16 (yourpetrochemicalnews) -- Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Toshikazu Tanaka, President & CEO) announced the temporary suspension of operations at its ethylene plant in the Ichihara Works located in I...
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SINGAPORE (ICIS news) -- Shell will cut 2,000 jobs by the end of next year and plans to sell $1-3bn worth of assets in a bid to boost profits, the oil giant said on Tuesday. Downstream, the company ai...
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