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April 13, 2011
Reliance Industries says it is moving ahead with the previously announced world-scale capacity expansion projects across the polyester chain. The projects include a plant that will...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/pet/Reliance-Moves-Ahead-with-Capacity-Expansion-Projects_34087.html April 12, 2011
The U.K. government has awarded grants to two chemical projects in northeastern England. The government's newly established Regional Growth Fund awarded £15 million to Cleveland...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/pet/U-K-Government-Awards-Grants-to-Fertilizer-and-PET-Projects_34078.html April 12, 2011
Indorama Ventures (Bangkok) says it plans to expand polyethylene terephthalate (PET) capacity in Europe by 220,000 m.t./year. The company operates five plants throughout Europe...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/pet/Indorama-to-Boost-European-PET-Capacity_34066.html April 12, 2011
Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff has instructed state oil company Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) to help stabilize ethanol prices by raising production, a two year project that will...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Petrobras-Steps-Up-Ethanol-Production-to-Stem-Soaring-Prices_34067.html April 11, 2011
Lanxess says it will expand capacity for hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR) at Orange, TX and Leverkusen by 40%. The company markets HNBR under the Therban brand name...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/Lanxess-Expands-Rubber-Capacity-in-Germany-and-U-S-_34042.html April 8, 2011
This Week on CW: Solvay is acquiring Rhodia for $4.8 billion, ending months of speculation over what the Belgian company will do with its pile of cash. At GPCA Plastics Forum in Dubai...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyvinyl_chloride/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-April-8_34036.html April 8, 2011
Braskem says it has begun construction of a new polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant at Marechal Deodoro in the state of Alagoas, Brazil. The plant will involve an investment of R$1 billion...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyvinyl_chloride/Braskem-Invests-$633-Million-to-Build-PVC-Plant-in-Brazil_34012.html April 1, 2011
Braskem-Idesa, a joint venture between Braskem and Idesa (Mexico City), has awarded a contract to Technip to build its world scale ethylene plant in Mexico. The project, dubbed...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Braskem-Idesa-Awards-Mexican-Ethylene-Plant-Contract-to-Technip_33862.html March 31, 2011
Foster Wheeler has announced that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has received a contract from Huntsman (Europe) for the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/methylene_dipara_phenylene_isocyanate/Huntsman-and-Partners-to-Expand-Isocyanates-Facility-in-China_33866.html March 29, 2011
Sahara Petrochemicals says its Al Waha Petrochemicals Co. subsidiary has completed a performance test on its propane dehydrogenation plant at Jubail, Saudi Arabia and commercial...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polypropylene/Al-Waha-to-Restart-Propane-Dehydrogenation-Unit-in-April-Following-Performance-Test_33803.html March 25, 2011
BASF says it has received approval from the Chinese authorities to proceed with a previously announced methylene di-para-phenylene isocyanate (MDI) complex at Chongqing, China. The...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/methylene_dipara_phenylene_isocyanate/BASF-Receives-Approval-for-an-Integrated-MDI-Complex-in-China_33722.html March 22, 2011
The Saudi government has established a technical panel to help resolve a dispute with the European Commission over possible European Union (EU) antidumping duties on polyethylene...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/pet/Saudi-Arabia-Establishes-Panel-to-Help-Resolve-PET-Dumping-Dispute-with-Europe_33629.html March 17, 2011
Shin-Etsu Chemical says it is unable to predict when its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) complex at Kashima, Japan will resume operations due to damage to infrastructure and utilities caused...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyvinyl_chloride/Shin-Etsu-and-Tosoh-Assess-Earthquake-Damage-to-Production-Sites_33501.html March 16, 2011
Cabot says it plants to spend more than $180 million through 2013 to expand carbon black production capacity at plants in China, Indonesia, Brazil and Argentina, as well as adding...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/Cabot-to-Boost-Global-Carbon-Black-Capacity-by-15-percent_33467.html March 15, 2011
Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest about €100 million ($137.7 million) to expand capacity for methylene di-para-phenylene isocyanate (MDI) at the Brunsbüttel industrial...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/methylene_dipara_phenylene_isocyanate/Bayer-MaterialScience-Invests-&euro100-Million-to-Expand-MDI-Plant-in-Germany_33430.html March 9, 2011
JSR Corp. (Tokyo) and Bangkok Synthetics (BST) say they have agreed to form a 51-49 joint venture that will build a solution styrene butadiene rubber (SSBR) plant at Map Ta Phut...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/synthetic_rubber/Japans-JSR-Forms-Venture-to-Build-SSBR-Plant-in-Thailand_33313.html March 9, 2011
The sale of Vinyls Italia, the troubled manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), has still to be concluded, despite hopes expressed late last year by...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyvinyl_chloride/ENI-Signs-Preliminary-Agreement-with-Gita-for-Syndial-Assets_33307.html March 9, 2011
Completion of ONGC Petro-Additions' (Opal; Mumbai) multi-billion dollar project has been delayed, CW has learned. Senior executives at Opal tell CW that the $3.1 billion joint venture...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/OPAL-Project-in-India-Delayed-to-2013_33299.html March 8, 2011
Battelle (Columbus, OH), an independent research and development organization, developed the process to combine soybean meal with “off the shelf” plastic resins with funding from the Ohio Soybean Council. The biomaterial is bonded at a molecular level, rather than simply being an organic filler, rendering comparable performance to conventional PE and PP....http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Ohio-Firm-Launches-Soybean-Based-Polyolefin-Composites_33295.html March 1, 2011
Dow Chemical says it has created a performance plastics division, comprised of all Dow plastics including solution polyethylene, wire and cable, elastomers, and films and...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Dow-Creates-Performance-Plastics-Divison_33140.html |
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