Reliance Industries is in talks with Brazilian oil company Petrobras to set up two petrochemical joint ventures in Brazil, which could involve a total investment of up to $6 billion... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13749.html
Bayer MaterialScience has started construction of a previously announced toluene diisocyanate (TDI) facility at Caojing, China near Shanghai. The plant will have an initial... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13762.html
A. Schulman says it is seeking a joint venture partner or “other strategic arrangements” for its Invision business, a recently launched line of thermoplastic elastomer... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13768.html
Dow Water Solutions, a unit of Dow Chemical, says it will invest $88 million to expand its Edina water treatment facility, and a further $15 million to establish a global... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13770.html
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (Riyadh) is mediating between Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (Sipchem; Al Khobar) and Sabic in talks that are expected to lead to... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13782.html
Uhde India says it will act as a sub-contractor to Incro (Madrid) to build two fertilizer manufacturing units in Morocco. The complex is being constructed for Bunge Maroc Phosphore... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13783.html
Sibur-Neftekhim, a Sibur (Moscow) subsidiary, says it has signed a contract with Technip Benelux (The Hague) to expand an ethylene plant at Kstovo, Russia. The previously announced... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13784.html
Sibur has broken ground for a previously announced propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene (PP) complex at Tobolsk, Russia (CW, Jan.14, p. 17). The plant will... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13785.html
The cost of a previously announced refinery and petrochemical joint venture between Sinopec and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC; Kuwait City) at Nansha, China has escalated from... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13786.html
Croda says it will expand and upgrade its manufacturing plant at Mill Hall, PA to meet rising demand for lubricant-grade specialty esters. Capacity and... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13796.html
LyondellBasell has confirmed CW's exclusive report that LyondellBasell's technologies have been selected for three polyolefin plants that will form part of a world-scale, integrated... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13747.html
Borealis has confirmed that a melamine plant is included in a feasibility study for a $20-billion “chemicals industrial city” at Taweelah, Abu Dhabi. Borealis and its... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13614.html
Agrium says it has entered into an agreement to sell its 60% stake in EAgrium, a previously announced $1.4-billion fertilizer joint venture project at Ras el-Bar, Damietta, Egypt, to... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13638.html
Arabian Industrial Fibres Co. (Ibn Rushd; Yanbu, Saudi Arabia), an affiliate of Sabic, says it will build a 525,000-m.t./year polypropylene (PP) plant at Yanbu by 2012. The company has... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13639.html
Braskem says it has signed an agreement with Brazil’s state-owned oil firm Petrobras and Peru’s state-owned oil firm PetroPeru to study a petrochemical... http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/13640.html
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