NEWS DIRECTLY FROM CW'S REPORTERS AT APIC 2010

Contact Natasha Alperowicz nalperowicz@chemweek.com or Lyn Tattum ltattum@chemweek.com if you have news from the event to tell us about.


Mukesh Ambani at APIC 2010: "This Century Belongs to Asia" May 14, 2010 Natasha Alperowicz and Lyn Tattum
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, in a visionary keynote address at today’s APIC 2010 conference in Mumbai told delegates that “this century belongs to Asia.” China and India are driving a...

APIC: Goodbye Demand Crisis, Hello Supply Crunch  May 13, 2010, Lyn Tattum in Mumbai
Attendance at APIC in Mumbai has risen further and now approaches 1,500 making it clearly the largest yet petrochemicals conference in Asia, with delegates keen to know how markets will develop at this delicate moment of global recovery. Gary Adams, president...

Indian Oil has started up its 850,000 m.t./year Lummus process ethylene plant at Panipat, India, S. Mitra general manager/petrochemicals at Indian Oil tells CW. He was speaking on the...

ONGC Petro-Additions (Opal) is about to select one of the three bidding consortia to build a previously announced high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant at Dahej, India, Opal’s...

The growth in styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) consumption and polybutadiene rubber (PBR) consumption will shift further from the developed regions such as North America and western...

The global ethylene market is facing oversupply and about 5 million m.t./year of capacity needs to be taken offline permanently during the next three years, delegates at the Asia...

Reliance Industries is expected to announce the go-ahead for a previously announced ethylene plant at Jamnagar, India, Kishor Jhalaria, president/olefins at Reliance tells CW. He was...

Styrenics in Dire Shape  May 13, 2010 |  Natasha Alperowicz in Mumbai
The global styrenics picture is bleak, said Vince Sinclair, director styrenics and phenol/Asia at CMAI (Singapore) at today’s APIC conference in Mumbai. The polystyrene (PS) market is oversupplied to the tune of 4 million m.t./year in a global market...
 

APIC Attracts Biggest-Ever Crowd  8:41 AM EDT | May 11, 2010 | Lyn Tattum in Mumbai

Chemical industry executives are gathering in Mumbai for what could be the largest Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference
(APIC) yet....

 

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