LG Chem has approved plans to spin off its industrial materials business into a separate entity, effective April 1, 2009. LG Chem's shares will be split into two entities with an... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/15650.html
LG Chem has recorded a 43% increase in net profits, to won301 billion ($249 million) for the third quarter. And sales for the period increased by 47% to won4.06 trillion, say... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/14779.html
The petrochemical industry is following a downward trend due to weaker-than-expected markets in 2008, marked by high feedstock costs, lagging polymer prices, excess capacity, and... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/14432.html
Drilling products and services company Imdex (Perth, Australia) says it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire all shares in specialty chemicals firm Wildcat Chemicals Australia... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/13746.html
SKC Chemicals Group (Seoul) has begun production of propylene oxide (PO) at Ulsan, Korea. The 100,000-m.t./year facility is the first commercial-scale plant to use novel hydrogen... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/13395.html
SKC Chemicals Group (Seoul) says it has begun production of propylene oxide (PO) at its Ulsan, Korea complex. The 100,000 m.t./year facility is the world's first commercial scale plant... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/13191.html
Sumitomo Seika Chemicals (Osaka) says it plans to establish a wholly owned manufacturing and sales subsidiary in Korea to meet growing demand for its products in the Korean market... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/12604.html
Lotte Daesan Petrochemical (Seoul), a subsidiary of Honam Petrochemical, has started production at a 400,000-m.t./year ethylene glycol (EG) plant at Daesan, Korea. It is the... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/12624.html
S-Oil Corp. (Seoul) says it has selected Axens' ParamaX technology package for its second aromatics complex to be built at its Onsan refinery in Korea. The new complex will have... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/12317.html
Praxair will build an air separation plant with capacity of 2,000 m.t./day to supply industrial gases to the advanced thin-film transistor/liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) factory of... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/11595.html
Praxair says it will build an air separation plant with a capacity of 2,000 m.t./day, to supply industrial gases to the advanced thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal-display (TFT-LCD)... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/11500.html
Air Liquide says it has signed separate contracts with Posco (Pohang, Korea) and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group (Beijing) to design and build large air separation units (ASUs) in... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/10521.html
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/regions/north_asia/korea/10374.html
Air Liquide says it has signed contracts with Posco (Pohang, Korea) and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group (Beijing) to design and build large air separation units in Korea and China... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/korea/10327.html
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