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August 19, 2008
California Assembly Rejects Two Bills Banning Chemicals
California’s Assembly rejected one bill that would ban bisphenol a (BPA) in products intended for children under the age of three, and another bill that would ban perfluorinated...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/polycarbonate/13702.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/engineering_plastics/acrylonitrile_butadiene_styrene_san/13687.html
August 18, 2008
FDA Review Finds BPA Safe to Use in Food Contact Materials
The FDA says an “adequate margin of safety” exists for bisphenol a (BPA) at current levels of human exposure from food contact uses, according to a draft assessment...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/polycarbonate/13691.html
July 16, 2008
Dow-Kuwait JV Appoints CEO, Selects Michigan for HQ
Dow Chemical and Kuwait Petroleum’s Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC; Kuwait City) have named James R. Fitterling as CEO of their proposed petchem joint venture. The 50-50...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/polycarbonate/13033.html
July 14, 2008
DuPont Boosts Nylon Resins Capacity
DuPont says it will boost compounding capacity of nylon-6 and -6,6 resins by 30,000 m.t/year, and HTN...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/12947.html
July 14, 2008
Solutia Considers Possible Sale of Nylon Business
Solutia says it has retained HSBC Securities USA (New York) to explore strategic alternatives for its nylon business, including a possible sale. The company says it is the...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/12962.html
June 30, 2008
Arkema Announces Raw Material and Energy Surcharge for Engineering Plastics
Arkema says it will apply a raw material and energy surcharge to the company's engineering plastics products, effective July 14. The surcharge will be applied to the Kynar, Rilsan...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/12776.html
June 30, 2008
Solutia to Explore Strategic Alternatives for Nylon Business
Solutia says it has retained HSBC Securities to explore strategic options, including a potential sale, of the company’s nylon business. “Given the strength of our...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/12781.html
June 23, 2008
Sinopec and Sabic Extend Scope of Tianjin JV
Sinopec and Sabic say they have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to extend the scope of their previously announced petrochemical joint venture at...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/polycarbonate/12635.html
June 2, 2008
Evonik Boosts Laurolactam Capacity in Germany
Evonik Industries says it will “significantly” expand capacity for laurolactam, an intermediate used to produce nylon-12...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/12242.html
June 2, 2008
Lurgi Zimmer Lands Nylon-6 Contract in China
Lurgi Zimmer says it has been awarded a contract by Tianjin Haijing Polymerization Co. (Tianjin, China) to supply its nylon-6 manufacturing technology and services for a new plant to...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/12277.html
May 19, 2008
Sinopec and Mitsubishi Form BPA and Polycarbonate JV
Mitsubishi Chemical says it has agreed to form a joint venture with Sinopec to produce 150,000 m.t./year of bisphenol A and 60,000 m.t./year of polycarbonate...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/polycarbonate/11984.html
April 21, 2008
Solutia Boosts Nylon Prices
Solutia says it will increase prices for all its Ascend and Vydyne brand nylon-6,6 resins in North America by 10 cts/lb. The...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/11478.html
March 3, 2008
Lurgi Zimmer Lands Nylon Contract in China
Lurgi Zimmer says it has been awarded a contract by Zhejiang Huajian Nylon Co. (Ruian, China) to supply a nylon-6...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/10625.html
March 3, 2008
Invista Builds Nylon R&D Center
Invista says it will make a multimillion-dollar investment to build a pilot facility at Kingston, ON to develop next-generation nylon...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/10638.html
February 19, 2008
Invista Builds Multi-Million-Dollar Nylon R&D Facility
Invista says it will make a multi-million-dollar investment to build a pilot facility at Kingston, ON to develop next-generation nylon products. Invista expects the facility to be...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/10428.html
February 18, 2008
Uhde Inventa-Fischer Awarded Nylon-6 Contract in Russia
Uhde Inventa-Fischer says it has been awarded a contract by Kuibyshev Azot (Kuibyshev, Russia) to build a 54,000-m.t./year...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/10392.html
January 28, 2008
Shaw Supplies Two ABS Plants to China
The Shaw Group says it has been awarded a contract to provide technology, engineering, and procurement services for two 200,000-m.t./year acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/acrylonitrile_butadiene_styrene_san/10042.html
December 19, 2007
Invista Signs Land Agreement for Nylon-6,6 Plant at Shanghai...
Invista, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, says it has signed a land reservation agreement with the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Development Co., paving the way for...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/nylon/9416.html
December 13, 2007
Dow and Kuwait Petroleum to Form Petrochemicals JV
Dow Chemical says it plans to form a 50-50 petrochemical joint venture with Kuwait Petroleum’s Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC; Kuwait City) subsidiary. PIC will pay about $9.5...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/engineering_plastics/polycarbonate/9369.html
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