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December 22, 2008
Dow Closes Three Latex Sites; Signs Deal for Chlor-Alkali Supply
Dow Chemical says it will permanently close its Pittsburg, CA; King’s Lynn, U.K.; and Varennes, PQ latex manufacturing plants. Dow says it transferred most employees from these...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/16007.html
December 19, 2008
Chlor-Alkali Demand to Weaken Until 2010
Demand for chlor-alkali and chlorine should continue to weaken throughout 2009 before improving slightly in 2010, with a full recovery coming in 2011-2012, says Eric Linak, Senior...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/16053.html
December 15, 2008
Shintech Expands Chlor-Alkali Plant
Shintech (Houston) says it has selected HPD (Plainfield, IL) to supply a salt crystallization plant and a caustic soda concentration system as part of an expansion of...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/15902.html
December 9, 2008
Dow Closures Will Include Chlor-Alkali, Styrenics, and Rubber
Dow Chemical says it will shut chlor-alkali, emulsions, styrenics, and hydrocarbon rubber plants. The company made the announcements as it disclosed further details of the...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/15806.html
November 17, 2008
Bayer to Build Chlorine Recycling Plant at Shanghai Complex
Bayer MaterialScience says it will build a chlorine recycling plant at the company's Caojing, China site, near Shanghai. The unit will be based on the catalytic oxidation of hydrogen...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/15422.html
October 27, 2008
Chlor-Alkali Firm Files for Insolvency
Chlor-alkali and derivatives company LII Europe (Frankfurt) has filed for insolvency at a Frankfurt court. “We are very optimistic that it will be possible to continue operations...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14964.html
October 20, 2008
Hurricane-Hit Sites Returning to Production
Up and running: Bayer’s plant at Baytown has restarted caustic soda production. Chemical plants along the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coasts continue to recover from manufacturing...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14816.html
October 20, 2008
Dow Caustic Soda Allocation Returns to Pre-Hurricane Levels
Dow Chemical says that shipments of membrane- and diaphragm-grade caustic soda from its Freeport, TX and Plaquemine, LA chlor-alkali plants were restored to pre-hurricane allocation...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14870.html
October 14, 2008
Bayer MaterialScience Lifts Baytown Force Majeure
Bayer MaterialScience says it has lifted its force majeure on its liquid caustic soda, anhydrous and  hydrochloric acid solution (36%), sodium hypochlorite and spent sulfuric acid...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14748.html
October 10, 2008
Decision Still Pending on Ineos PVC Operation in Italy
Ineos Vinyls Italia, an Ineos ChlorVinyls subsidiary, has not yet announced a decision on the future of the company’s polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant at Porto Marghera, Italy...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14714.html
October 7, 2008
PolyOne and Olin Lift Caustic Soda Force Majeure
PolyOne and Olin say that a September 17 force majeure on caustic soda shipments from their SunBelt Chlor-alkali Partnership plant at McIntosh, AL has been...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14667.html
October 2, 2008
Dow Chemical Caustic Soda Allocation Returns to Pre-Hurricane Levels
Effective October 1, Dow Chemical says membrane and diaphragm grade shipments of caustic soda from its Freeport, TX and Plaquemine, LA were restored to pre-hurricane levels of 90%. Dow...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14564.html
September 19, 2008
Bayer Material Science Declares Force Majeure at Baytown
Bayer MaterialScience says it has declared force majeure on products produced by its polyurethanes; coatings, adhesives, specialties; polycarbonates; and inorganic chemicals business...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14296.html
September 18, 2008
Olin Lifts Force Majeure at St. Gabriel, Declares  at McIntosh
Olin says it is lifting its September 10 force majeure declaration on chlorine, caustic soda, and hydrogen from its St. Gabriel, LA facility. Normal shipments from St. Gabriel are...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14277.html
September 8, 2008
Westlake Plans Louisiana Chlor-Alkali Plant
Westlake says it will invest $250 million-$300 million to build a membrane-process, chlor-alkali plant at its Geismar, LA vinyls complex by the first half of 2011. The plant will have...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14026.html
September 8, 2008
Bayer Ends Caustic Soda Allocation
Bayer MaterialScience says that on August 11 it ended caustic soda order...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/14063.html
August 29, 2008
Westlake to Construct Membrane Chlor-Alkali Unit in Lousiana
Westlake says it will invest between $250-$300 million to build a new 250,000 ECU/year membrane chlor-alkali plant at its Geismar, LA vinyls complex. The new plant will bring...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/13942.html
August 18, 2008
Shintech Starts Up Chlor-Alkali Production in Louisiana
Chlor-alkali production has started at Shintech’s new integrated vinyls complex near Plaquemine, LA, market sources say. This first phase of the start-up includes 300,000...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/13655.html
August 18, 2008
Fire Shuts Arkema Chlor-alkali Unit
Arkema says a chlor-alkali unit at its Lavera, France facility was immediately shut down today following a “small explosion” and...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/13692.html
July 28, 2008
Alumina Contracts Break Record
Caustic soda supply contracts to the alumina customers settled $235/m.t. higher at a record $645/m.t., fob Gulf...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/inorganic_chemicals/chloralkali/13280.html
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