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December 22, 2008
BASF to Build SB Latex Unit at Chinese Site
BASF plans to construct a styrene butadiene (SB) latex plant at the Dayawan petrochemicals park near Daya Bay, Huizhou, China. The company has signed a heads of agreement with CSPC, an...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/16021.html
December 22, 2008
ABS
Prices U.S.: $1.08-$1.12/lb del, Nov. contracts EUROPE: €1,534-€1,625/m.t. del, Nov. ASIA: $1,300-$1,500/m.t., c&f, China Outlook Global acrylonitrile butadiene styrene...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/16044.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/petrochemicals/styrene/15806.html
December 8, 2008
Nova Chemicals Idles Styrene Plant
Nova Chemicals says it has temporarily closed its Beaver Valley styrenic polymers plant at...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/15758.html
November 24, 2008
SP Chemicals Shelves Chinese Styrene Plant
SP Chemicals (Singapore) says it will delay by “at least two years” construction of a previously announced...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/15532.html
November 18, 2008
CW's Asia Chemical Prices for the Week Ended November 18, 2008
NAPHTHA   Naphtha prices in Asia decline. Bids for benzene and toluene down adjust. - Nov 18, 2008   In Asia today, naphtha prices declined. Prices slipped on the back of...
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September 29, 2008
Oman Seeks Styrene Technology Offers
Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals Co. (ORPC; Muscat) has invited process licensers to submit...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/14468.html
September 19, 2008
BASF to Cut EU Polystyrene Production by 25%.
BASF says from October 1 it will slash production of polystyrene (PS) in Europe by 25%. “The reason for this step is the diminished demand for the standard plastic PS, a...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/14295.html
September 15, 2008
Lummus Bags Contract for Indian Petrochemical Complex
Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I; The Woodlands, TX) says it has been awarded technology licenses and basic engineering contracts by Essar Gujarat Petrochemicals (Ahmedabad, India)...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/14185.html
September 8, 2008
BASF to Divest Styrenics as ‘a Global Unit’
BASF has provided additional details on plans to expand the scope of its previously announced styrenics divestment (CW, Aug. 25, p. 13). The company says it will add copolymers to the...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/14034.html
September 8, 2008
Product Focus: Styrene
Prices U.S.: 80 cts-82 cts/lb fob, spot; 80 cts/lb, fob. July contracts EUROPE: $1,620-$1,630/m.t., fob NWE, spot; €1,260-€1,280/m.t., del August contracts Outlook The global...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/14067.html
August 18, 2008
Jubail Chevron Phillips Begins Production
Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SIIG; Riyadh) and ChevronPhillips Chemical (CPChem) say their Jubail Chevron Phillips Co. joint venture has started production at Al Jubail, Saudi...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/13684.html
August 18, 2008
BASF Widens Scope of Proposed Styrenics Sale
BASF says it has widened the scope of a previously announced divestment of the company's global styrenics business and has reorganized the activities in preparation for the sale...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/13687.html
July 3, 2008
BASF Styrenics Divestment Is Delayed
BASF did not succeed in divesting most of its commodity styrenics business in the first half of 2008 as originally planned. The company expects to reach...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/12835.html
July 2, 2008
Shell Completes Dutch Polyols Expansion
Shell Chemicals says it has completed an expansion of a polyols plant at Pernis, the Netherlands. Capacity of the plant has been raised from 155,000 m.t./year to 255,000 m.t./year...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/12814.html
June 24, 2008
Dow to Idle Several Plants, Hikes Prices by an Additional 25%
Dow Chemical will temporarily idle or reduce production at a number of manufacturing plants in North America and Europe, and will raise selling prices by as much as an additional 25%...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/12656.html
May 19, 2008
Dow, Chevron Begin Styrenics JV
Americas Styrenics (Houston), a 50-50 joint venture of Dow Chemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem), started up on May 1. The jv’s styrene...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/12002.html
February 25, 2008
Westlake Styrene Turnaround
Westlake says it will take down its 485-million lbs/year Lake Charles, LA styrene...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/10534.html
February 18, 2008
BASF and Korean Firm Idle Styrene Plants
BASF and Dongbu Hannong Chemical (Seoul) have idled their respective styrene plants at Ulsan, Korea for economic reasons and are feeding their downstream styrenics plants with...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/10374.html
December 5, 2007
Global Styrene Market Set to Change
About 3.2-million m.t./year of styrene from the Mideast will hit the global market by 2012, altering the landscape of the styrene...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/styrene/9126.html
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