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March 6, 2013
Methanex's Motunui site Methanex says it plans to increase its methanol production capacity in New Zealand by 700,000 m.t./year, to 2.2...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Methanex-to-restart-Waitara-Valley-plant-and-raise-capacity-at-Motunui-site-in-New-Zealand_50269.html March 6, 2013
SK Gas (Seoul), South Korea's largest importer and distributor of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), said today that it has signed a deal with Lummus Technology to use Lummus’s...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/SK-Gas-selects-Lummus-Catofin-technology-for-PDH-plant-in-Korea_50274.html March 6, 2013
Henkel today reported a 41% increase in fourth-quarter Ebit, to €492 million ($642.1 million), on 5% higher sales, at €4 billion. Fourth-quarter Ebit margin rose to 12.3%...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Henkel-reports-higher-2012-sales-and-earnings-gives-guidance-for-2013_50273.html March 6, 2013
Mitsui & Co. says its wholly owned subsidiary Intercontinental Terminals Co. (ITC; Houston) will invest about $150 million to build a new tank terminal on the Houston Ship Channel...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsui-and-Co-to-build-petrochemical-terminal-in-US_50272.html March 6, 2013
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) on Tuesday opened a flavors manufacturing plant at the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development District, in China. The facility is...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/International-Flavors-and-Fragrances-opens-large-flavors-plant-in-China_50271.html March 5, 2013
Beleaguered solar markets continue to drag on Ferro's financial results, with the company reporting a deeper quarter loss year-on-year just a day after rejecting a takeover bid from A...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ferros-fourth-quarter-loss-widens_50255.html March 5, 2013
Mitsubishi Chemical says it has revised its financial targets for fiscal 2015, ending 31 March 2016, as a result of changes in the business environment. The targets are part of a...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsubishi-Chemical-lowers-2016-targets_50250.html March 5, 2013
Symrise (Holzminden, Germany), a leading producer of flavors and fragrances, has acquired the global fragrance business of the Belmay Group (New York), an international developer and...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Symrise-acquires-Belmays-fragrance-activities-reinforcing-North-American-presence_50249.html March 5, 2013
Sasol North America has selected Univation’s Unipol polyethylene (PE) technology for a 450,000-m.t./year plant to be built as part of a previously announced $5–7 billion...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Sasol-progresses-with-Lake-Charles-cracker-project-selects-Unipol-PE-process_50248.html March 5, 2013
BASF and Xinjiang Markor Chemical Industry Co. (Markor; Korla, China) plan to establish two joint ventures for the production of butanediol (BDO) and polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF) at...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/BASF-and-Markor-form-two-JVs-to-produce-BDO-and-PolyTHF-in-China_50246.html March 5, 2013
Celanese says it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with state-owned energy company Pertamina (Jakarta), and will begin the detailed project-planning phase for the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Celanese-and-Pertamina-to-form-JV-for-fuel-ethanol-projects-in-Indonesia_50245.html March 5, 2013
Lanxess says that, following a previously announced feasibility study, it has decided to convert production of emulsion styrene butadiene rubber (E-SBR) used in standard tires to...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Lanxess-to-invest-&euro80-million-to-switch-to-S-SBR-production-in-Brazil_50243.html March 4, 2013
President Obama this morning formally nominated Gina McCarthy as the next EPA chief. McCarthy, EPA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, had been...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Obama-nominates-McCarthy-to-head-EPA_50226.html March 4, 2013
The International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) today released the final award amount, representing interest and costs, in the arbitration case...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Kuwait-ordered-to-pay-Dow-close-to-$2-5-billion-in-K-Dow-arbitration-case_50222.html March 4, 2013
Sabic will not be going ahead with plans announced last year to build a $5.3-billion methanol-to-olefins complex in Trinidad and Tobago in a joint venture with Sinopec, Sabic said...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Sabic-pulls-out-of-$5-3-billion-methanol-to-olefins-JV-project-in-Trinidad-and-Tobago-Update_50216.html March 4, 2013
Qatar Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and Distribution Co. (Muntajat; Doha), a newly created trading firm in Qatar, has taken over exclusive responsibility for the marketing...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Qatar-transfers-Qafcos-marketing-activities-to-new-trading-firm-Muntajat_50215.html March 4, 2013
Meghmani Organics (Ahmedabad, India), one of the country’s leading producers of pigments and pesticides has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that a fatal accident occurred at...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Accident-at-Indian-pesticides-plant-kills-three-workers_50220.html March 4, 2013
DSM has completed the sale of its share in DEXPlastomers, a 50-50 joint venture with an affiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical, to Borealis. DSM also sold its linear low-density polyethylene...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/DSM-completes-sale-of-DEXPlastomers-and-LLDPE-technology-to-Borealis_50219.html March 1, 2013
Construction is to begin in the fourth quarter of 2013, with start-up expected in mid-2016....http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/ZEEP-Todd-to-build-$1-3-billion-methanol-plant-in-Louisiana_50146.html March 1, 2013
Praxair completed its previously announced acquisition of NuCO2 for $1.1 billion on 1 March. Separately, the company announced that the Venezuelan government’s devaluation of the bolivar would reduce first-quarter earnings by 8 cts/share....http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Praxair-completes-NuCO2-buy-Venezuela-devaluation-to-hurt-first-quarter-earnings_50214.html |
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