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May 23, 2011
Dow Chemical says it has completed a pilot test for turning recycled plastic into energy. The pilot test found that 96% of available energy was recovered after incinerating 578 lbs of...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Dow-Completes-Pilot-Project-for-Turning-Recycled-Plastic-into-Energy_34985.html May 23, 2011
Several New Special Economic Zones are Planned...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/9th-IPF-Iran-Aims-to-Become-the-Leading-Mideast-Petrochemicals-Player_34977.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 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 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 March 1, 2011
Eastman Chemical says it has boosted its 2011 earnings guidance to nearly $8/share, and has raised its first-quarter 2011 earnings to about $2/share. The company expects the compound...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Eastman-Boosts-Earnings-Outlook_33138.html February 1, 2011
BASF has added 60,000 m.t./year capacity at its Ludwigshafen based Ecoflex biodegradable polyester plant bringing the total to 74,000 m.t./year. BASF is, at the same time, ramping up a...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/BASF-Completes-Expansion-of-Ecoflex-Biodegradable-Polyester-Plant_32563.html January 27, 2011
Borouge, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis, has awarded a $169-million contract o Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Seoul) to build Borouge's...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Borouge-Awards-XLPE-Contract-to-Hyundai-Engineering_32433.html January 20, 2011
Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. (Petro Rabigh; Rabigh, Saudi Arabia), a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, has announced un-audited financial results for...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Petro-Rabigh-Swings-into-Profit-Plans-Maintenance-in-April_32243.html January 14, 2011
Two world-scale petrochemical projects are expected to go ahead shortly in Qatar, rather than the previously announced one, CW has learned. Senior officials in Qatar told CW recently...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Cracker-Projects-by-Both-Shell-and-ExxonMobil-Are-Set-to-Go-Ahead-in-Qatar_32125.html January 6, 2011
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT (Oberhausen, Germany) say they are testing how plastics can be given new characteristics...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/CO2-Impregnation-Creates-New-Characteristics-in-Plastics_31930.html December 28, 2010
A fire has shut down Petronas Chemicals' aromatics plant at Kertih in the oil-producing Malyasian state of Terengganu. The fire was put out quickly after flaring up on Friday night...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Fire-Shuts-Down-Petronas-Chemicals-Aromatics-Plant_31813.html December 17, 2010
Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (Sipchem) says it has awarded the engineering design, procurement, and construction contract for a previously announced ethylene vinyl acetate...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Koreas-GS-E-and-C-to-Build-EVA-Plant-for-Sipchem_31704.html November 26, 2010
Roquette (Lestrem, France), the world’s fourth largest producer of starch, says it plans to start producing commercial volumes of a range of bioplasticisers and biopolymers...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Roquette-Develops-Low-Toxicity-Bio-Alternatives-to-Phthalates-Bisphenol-A_31207.html November 19, 2010
Brazilian petrochemicals firm Braskem (São Paulo) and trading company Toyota Tsusho (Nagoya, Japan) say a life-cycle assessment of Braskem’s polyethylene (PE) made from...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Life-Cycle-Assessment-of-Braskems-Green-PE-Shows-70-percent-Savings-in-GHG-Emissions_31101.html November 17, 2010
Several new high performance ethylene-based polymers were in the spotlight at the SPF 2010 plastics films conference. Products included the latest metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene from ExxonMobil Chemical and Ineos, high-stiffness terpolymers from Borealis, extensions to DuPont's ionomer resin family, and new tie-layer technology for multilayer barrier films from LyondellBasell....http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/SPF-Films-Conference-Highlights-Materials-Advances_31003.html November 10, 2010
Dow Chemical says it has started production of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) on its new solution LLDPE II train (SPE II) at Map Ta Phut, Thailand. LLDPE from SPE II will be...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Dow-Starts-up-LLDPE-Train-at-Thailand-JV_30668.html November 10, 2010
Teijin says it will enter the high-performance polyethylene (HPPE) market by establishing its first production facility at Emmen, Netherlands, and the plant is expected to start...http://www.chemweek.com/markets/plastics/polyethylene/Teijin-to-Enter-High-Performance-Polyethylene-Market-Build-Plant-in-Netherlands_30816.html |
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