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Shin-Etsu buys General Electric out of silicones joint venture in Thailand

11:42 PM MDT | May 23, 2013 | Natasha Alperowicz

Shin-Etsu Chemical has acquired the 50% it did not already own in Asia Silicones Monomer (ASM; Rayong, Thailand) from General Electric Co.(GE), the company announced on Thursday. ASM was jointly managed by the two companies. ASM became an indirectly wholly...

Russian president attends Sibur's commissioning of TPE unit at Voronezh

12:21 AM MDT | May 24, 2013 | Natasha Alperowicz

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the commissioning ceremony of Sibur’s styrene-butadiene thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) unit at Voronezh on Thursday. The 50,000 m.t./year unit is based on technology licensed from Taiwan Synthetic Rubber Corp...

BASF to expand production capacity for water-based polymers in US; to close Delaware site

Global PS demand expected to be lower in 2013 because of high feedstock costs, product substitution

Orica and PhosAgro sign 10-year mining services supply contract

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Braskem launches biobased LDPE line

6:46 AM MDT | May 23, 2013 | Francinia Protti-Alvarez

Braskem (São Paulo) has launched its line of biobased low-density polyethylene (LDPE) derived from sugarcane ethanol, the company has announced. Annual production of biobased LDPE will amount to approximately 30,000 m.t./year, and the product will be...

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Solvay breaks ground on silica plant in Poland

12:00 AM MDT | May 23, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

Solvay says it has broken ground on a previously announced facility that will produce highly dispersible silica (HDS), at Włocławek, Poland. The new 85,000-m.t./year HDS plant involves an investment of €75 million ($96 million) and will create more...

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A Kansas federal court on Wednesday ordered Dow Chemical to pay $1.2 billion in a previously announced urethanes price-fixing case, tripling, as expected, the fine announced in February this year. Dow was one of five companies named in a 2005 class action lawsuit for alleged conspiracy to fix urethane prices...

Asia/Pacific

BASF to build crop protection products facility in China

2:48 AM MDT | May 23, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

BASF says that it will build a new formulation and packaging plant for crop protection products at Rudong, China. The plant, which will have a production capacity of 10,000 m.t./year, is expected to be fully operational in 2014 and will employ over 100...

Mideast/Africa

Report: Sabic opens compounding facilities at Al Jubail

3:46 AM MDT | May 23, 2013 | Francinia Protti-Alvarez

Sabic has opened its first engineering plastics compounding facility as well as a new polypropylene (PP) compounding plant, at its manufacturing affiliate, Saudi Specialty Chemicals Co. (Al Jubail), according to a report from Saudi Gazette. "Both the...

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