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February 1, 2013
Sumitomo Chemical says it has decided that it will close its 415,000-m.t./year ethylene plant at Chiba, Japan, by September 2015. Sumitomo says it is also considering the possibility...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Sumitomo-Chemical-to-close-permanently-Chiba-ethylene-plant-Update_49496.html February 1, 2013
SK Global Chemical, the petrochemical business of SK Innovation (Seoul), formerly SK Energy, recorded a 49% rise in operating profits for the fourth quarter ended 31 December 2012...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/SK-Global-Chemical-reports-rise-in-quarterly-profits_49495.html January 31, 2013
S-Oil, South Korea's major oil refiner and aromatics producer, said today that it posted a 99% fall in net profit in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the year-ago period due to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/S-Oil-reports-huge-drop-in-profit-on-sluggish-refining-margin-and-polysilicon-losses_49467.html January 30, 2013
BASF Shanghai Coatings, a joint venture between BASF China—a subsidiary of BASF—and Shanghai Coatings, has broken ground on a project to build an additional automotive...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/BASF-breaks-ground-on-automotive-coatings-expansion-in-China_49443.html January 30, 2013
Oiltanking Nanjing, an affiliate of Oiltanking (Hamburg), says it has opened a railcar loading and unloading facility at the company's tank storage terminal in the Nanjing Chemical...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/Oiltanking-opens-railcar-facility-in-China_49438.html January 30, 2013
AltaGas (Calgary, AB) and Idemitsu Kosan (Tokyo) have agreed to form an equally owned partnership, AltaGas Idemitsu Joint Venture, to pursue opportunities involving exports of...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Idemitsu-and-AltaGas-form-partnership-to-export-Canadian-gas-to-Asia_49434.html January 30, 2013
SK Gas (Seoul) said in a regulatory filing that it will invest $890 million to build a propylene plant at Ulsan, South Korea, as part of its push into the petrochemical industry. SK...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/SK-Gas-to-build-$890-million-propylene-plant-at-Ulsan_49433.html January 29, 2013
Chiyoda has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract by Taiyo Oil (Tokyo) to develop a 10,000-bbl/day transalkylation unit, Chiyoda announced...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Chiyoda-awarded-EPC-contract-for-Taiyo-Oil-aromatics-expansion-in-Japan_49411.html January 29, 2013
Shin-Etsu Chemical recorded a 10.3% rise in net profits for the fiscal first 9 months ended 31 December 2012, compared with the year-ago period, to ¥83.4 billion ($923 million)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Shin-Etsu-reports-rise-in-profits_49409.html January 29, 2013
LG Chem posted a 22.5% decline in net profits for the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the year-ago period, to 292.0 billion South Korean won ($269.0 million). Fourth-quarter sales...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/LG-Chem-reports-fall-in-profits_49399.html January 28, 2013
JSR (Tokyo) recorded an 11.8% rise in net profits for the fiscal first 9 months ended 31 December 2012, compared with the year-ago period, to ¥21.17 billion ($233 million)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/JSR-reports-rise-in-profits_49369.html January 25, 2013
SNF Floerger (Andrézieux, France) has begun production at its first quaternized monomer plant in China. The unit, at Taixing, has capacity for 15,000 m.t./year of monomer and...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/SNF-Floerger-starts-up-quaternized-monomer-plant-in-China_49342.html January 25, 2013
Samsung Total Petrochemicals (STP; Seoul), a joint venture between Samsung and Total, has reinstated a contract to purchase Iranian crude oil after a one-year hiatus, Reuters...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/Samsung-Total-Petrochemicals-strikes-feedstock-deal-with-Iran-report-says_49338.html January 24, 2013
Sawgrass Technologies (Charleston, SC) and Seiko Epson (Tokyo) have entered into a long-term license agreement under which Epson will sell inks for sublimation imaging, as an...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Sawgrass-licenses-Seiko-Epson-to-use-sublimation-inks-in-its-printers_49256.html January 24, 2013
Songwon Industrial (Ulsan, Korea) says it has appointed Doris Peters as global director of marketing and business analysis, effective 1 January. Peters joins Songwon having had key...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/Songwon-appoints-new-global-directormarketing-and-business-analysis_49249.html January 23, 2013
Polyethylene (PE) supply is expected to remain restricted in Asia despite a renewed influx of imports from Iran, owing to planned maintenance shutdowns at PE plants elsewhere in the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/Mideast-plant-turnarounds-buoy-Asian-PE-prices-despite-renewed-influx-of-Iranian-material_49216.html January 22, 2013
Mitsui Chemicals announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Kemira for acrylamide manufacturing technology, the raw material for polyacrylamide that is used in...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Mitsui-Chemicals-signs-acrylamide-bioprocess-technology-license-agreement-with-Kemira_49180.html January 21, 2013
Mitsui Chemicals says that production has resumed at the hydroquinone plant in the company’s Iwakuni-Ohtake production complex at Waki, Japan. Hydroquinone production stopped at...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Mitsui-Chemicals-restarts-hydroquinone-plant-in-Iwakuni-Ohtake-site_49139.html January 18, 2013
Hyundai Cosmo Para-Xylene (HCP), a joint venture between Cosmo Oil Corp. (Tokyo) and Hyundai Oilbank (HDO; Seoul), has announced that production at its aromatics facility at HDO's...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/Hyundai-Cosmo-jv-makes-its-first-p-xylene-shipment-from-new-plant_49100.html January 18, 2013
Nippon Shokubai says that it has received approval from authorities to restart operations at a few more facilities in the company’s manufacturing complex at Himeji, Japan, but...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/Nippon-Shokubai-restarts-more-facilities-at-Himeji-site_49122.html |
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