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March 23, 2009
Dow Europe recently started up a 60,000-m.t./year solution styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR) plant at Schkopau, Germany. S-SBR produced at the plant will be used to manufacture...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Dow-Starts-Up-S-SBR-Facility_17768.html March 23, 2009
BASF and Dow Chemical say that their hydrogen peroxide-to-propylene oxide (HPPO) joint venture at Antwerp has started up and is “running stably.” The equally owned jv is...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/BASF-and-Dow-Open-HPPO-Plant_17767.html March 23, 2009
Formosa Petrochemical (Mailiao, Taiwan), a unit of Formosa Plastics, says it has restarted its 700,000-m.t./year naphtha cracker at Mailiao, after an explosion earlier this month...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/-Resumes-Cracker-Restart_17770.html March 22, 2009
Terra Industries says it has restarted its 500,000-m.t./year ammonia unit at Donaldsonville, LA. The plant was idled in December 2008 due to “needed repairs during a period when...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Terra-Reopens-Ammonia-Plant_17771.html March 22, 2009
Formosa Plastics says it has restarted its olefins unit at Point Comfort, TX. The plant has capacity to produce 1.4 billion lbs/year of ethylene and was idled in October 2008 for...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Formosa-Restarts-Olefins-Unit-_17769.html March 22, 2009
U.S. ethylene contract prices settled up 0.5 cts/lb in February, turning average ethylene margins positive for the first time since December 2008. Average ethylene margins were 4...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Tighter-Ethylene-Market-Turns-Margins-Positive-Again_17766.html March 9, 2009
Formosa Petrochemical (Mailiao, Taiwan) says it recently lowered the operating rate of one of its three ethylene plants due to a mechanical fault. The 1.2-million m.t./year ethylene...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Formosa-Petchem-Drops-Capacity_17477.html March 6, 2009
March butadiene contracts settled at 25 cts/lb in the U.S., the lowest contract price since December 2002 when butadiene was priced at 27 cts/lb. The March price is a 3-cts/lb discount...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Butadiene-Falls-to-New-Low-On-Weakened-U-S-Economy_17474.html March 6, 2009
More than 325 million lbs of post-consumer, non-bottle, rigid plastics—including high-density polyethylene (HDPE) tubs, polypropylene (PP) cups, and polyethylene (PE) food...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/ACC-Issues-First-Recycled-Plastics-Report_17475.html March 6, 2009
Dow Europe says it is increasing polyethylene (PE) resin prices by €120/m.t. The hike applies to all grades of low-density PE, linear low-density PE, and high-density PE. Dow...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Dow-Europe-Raises-Prices_17476.html March 6, 2009
DuPont says it has restarted its 1.5-billion lbs/year ethylene unit at Orange, TX. The unit was shuttered in early September 2008 due to Hurricane Ike (CW, Sept. 22, 2008, p...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Dupont-Restarts-Ethylene-Unit_17478.html February 27, 2009
U.S. production of natural soda ash increased to a record 11.2 million tons last year, about 100,000 tons more than were produced in 2007, says the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/U-S-Soda-Ash-Producers-Achieve-Record-Year_17323.html February 27, 2009
Average operating rates at U.S. chlor-alkali plants jumped to 69% in January, a 19 percentage point increase from the previous month, the Chlorine Institute (Arlington, VA) says...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Chlor-Alkali-Operating-Rates-Rise_17324.html February 27, 2009
The Phosphate Chemicals Export Association (PhosChem; Lake Forest, IL) says it has inked a deal to supply 1.25 million m.t. of diammonium phosphate to two Indian customers. Shipments...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/PhosChem-Signs-India-Supply-Deal_17325.html February 27, 2009
PotashCorp expects its gross margins to increase significantly in the years ahead as the company continues to expand its potash production capacity. “It is possible that when all...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Margin-Growth-for-Potashcorp_17326.html February 23, 2009
Ineos ChlorVinyls, an Ineos subsidiary, says it will review its pricing mechanisms for contract polyvinyl chloride (PVC) customers in Europe, to “counterbalance misleading PVC...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Ineos-Reviews-PVC-Pricing-in-Europe_17174.html February 23, 2009
Oxea (Oberhausen, Germany) says it has increased the price of dioctyl phthalate in Northwest Europe by €25/m.t., effective mid-February. The company will also increase the price...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Oxea-to-Increase-Prices_17176.html February 23, 2009
Equistar Chemicals, a LyondellBasell subsidiary, says it will reduce its workforce by about 75 at the company’s PD Glycol plant at Beaumont, TX following completion of the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Equistar-to-Cut-Workforce-Continue-Plant-Remediation_17175.html February 20, 2009
Intrepid Potash (Denver) says it will temporarily halt production and cut shifts at its New Mexico mines, to reduce inventory as sales of crop nutrients remain weak. “While...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Intrepid-Halts-Production_17177.html February 20, 2009
Arkema says it has acquired Oxford Performance Materials (OPM; Enfield, CT). OPM makes polyether ketone ketone ultra-high performance technical polymers, marketed under the OXPEKK...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/Arkema-Acquires-PEKK-Producer_17178.html |
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