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April 10, 2013
Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC; Dehradun, India) and Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals (New Delhi), a subsidiary of the K.K. Birla Group (Kolkata, India), have signed a...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/fertilizers/ONGC-and-Chambal-Fertilisers-sign-MOU-for-fertilizer-project-in-eastern-India_51039.html
April 9, 2013
"The placement of this order has secured vital manufacturing capacity,” says Johan du Preez, executive v.p./US megaprojects....
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/ethylene/Sasol-orders-ethylene-compressors-for-planned-Lake-Charles-cracker_51004.html
April 8, 2013
Jurong Aromatics Corp. (JAC; Singapore) has chosen Pac Lab Instruments (Houston) as the provider of laboratory instruments at JAC's manufacturing complex at Jurong Island, Singapore...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/benzene/JAC-chooses-Pac-Labs-equipment-for-Singapore-aromatics-complex_50985.html
April 5, 2013
Polycarbonate continues to face margin pressure as PC production costs increase on tighter supply and higher prices for feedstock benzene, an IHS Chemical report says. The demand...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/benzene/IHS-Chemical-Subdued-demand-volatile-benzene-likely-to-hurt-polycarbonate-margins_50922.html
April 4, 2013
International Process Plants (IPP; Hamilton, NJ) says it has put  former Vinyls Italia assets at Porto Marghera and Porto Torres, Italy up for sale. The facilities, owned earlier...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/vinyl_chloride/Former-Vinyls-Italia-plants-at-Porto-Marghera-and-Porto-Torres-up-for-sale_50946.html
April 4, 2013
LyondellBasell Industries has licensed its Lupotech T and Lupotech A process technologies to Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical (JSPC; Lianyungang, China) for a low-density...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/vinyl_acetate/LyondellBasell-licenses-technology-for-LDPE-plant-in-China_50939.html
April 2, 2013
The sum includes the construction of methanol storage capacity in support of Methanex’s Geismar, LA, methanol project and the acquisition of a terminal facility in South Carolina from Quality Carriers....
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/methanol/Kinder-Morgan-to-invest-$58-million-in-chemical-storage_50876.html
April 2, 2013
Titan Kimia Nusantara (Jakarta), a subsidiary of Lotte (Seoul), plans to build a naphtha cracker complex near the company’s industrial plant at Merak, Indonesia, with capacity...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/ethylene/Report-Lotte-subsidiary-to-build-naphtha-cracker-in-Indonesia_50884.html
March 28, 2013
Increasing potash demand, especially in China and India, contributed to Mosaic’s strong quarter for the fiscal third quarter, ended 28 February—with the company reporting...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/fertilizers/Mosaic-reports-rise-in-earnings-sales-on-high-potash-demand_50799.html
March 28, 2013
Vinyls company Kem One (Lyon, France) has, as expected, been put into receivership by the commercial court of Lyon. The move follows a filing for insolvency with the court by Kem One's...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/vinyl_chloride/Kem-One-enters-receivership-Arkema-denies-responsibility_50786.html
March 26, 2013
OxyChem (Dallas), a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, says it is constructing a hydrochloric acid (HCI) synthesis unit at its Niagara Falls, NY, chlor-alkali plant. The unit is...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/OxyChem-to-construct-HCI-unit-at-Niagara-Falls-plant_50745.html
March 26, 2013
Williams says it has chosen Honeywell’s UOP C3 Oleflex process technology to produce propylene for its recently announced propane dehydrogenation (PDH) project at Alberta...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/propylene/Williams-selects-Honeywell-UOP-technology-for-PDH-facility_50744.html
March 26, 2013
Troubled vinyls company Kem One (Lyon, France) was scheduled to present to a Lyon court this morning an "application to default on its debts," French media reports say...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/vinyl_chloride/Vinyls-company-Kem-One-applies-to-default-on-its-debts_50738.html
March 26, 2013
Kronos reported a net loss in earnings for the fourth quarter 2012 due to an inherent weakness in the titanium dioxide (TiO2) market. The company reported a loss of $18.1 million (16...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/titanium_dioxide/Kronoss-earnings-fall-on-weak-TiO2-sales_50497.html
March 25, 2013
Cabot Corp. says it has completed a fumed silica expansion at its Barry, Wales, facility, part of a 3-year plan started in 2011 to increase Cabot's global fumed metal oxide capacity by...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/silicones/Cabot-expands-fumed-silica-capacity_50718.html
March 22, 2013
Indorama Ventures’ (Bangkok) polymers subsidiary AlphaPet has confirmed the construction of a previously announced polyethylene terephthalate (PET) production unit in the United...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/terephthalic_acid/Indorama-subsidiary-confirms-PET-project-at-BP-site-in-the-US_50709.html
March 22, 2013
Global styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) prices are expected to be torn in the first half of this year between soft demand downstream from tire manufacturing, as the automotive sector...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/Export-opportunities-will-drive-SBR-markets-during-the-second-half-of-2013_50701.html
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