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Ineos Nitriles and Tianjin Bohai to form acrylonitrile joint venture

1:46 AM MDT | May 22, 2013 | Natasha Alperowicz

Ineos Nitriles has signed a heads of terms agreement with Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Group to create an equally owned joint venture to produce acrylonitrile, the company announced today. The new partnership will build and operate a 260,000-m.t./year...

Celanese puts 2 acetyl plants in Europe up for sale

7:24 AM MDT | May 22, 2013 | Ian Young

Celanese says it plans to launch a sale process for its acetic anhydride plant at Roussillon, France and its vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant at Tarragona, Spain. Celanese says it is "taking the appropriate time to find a credible buyer for both units...

Pacific NorthWest awards FEED contracts to 3 consortia for shale gas processing into LNG

Petronas outlines capex plans, PVC exit costs $162 million

Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsui & Co. to locate alpha-olefins plant at Freeport, TX

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FDA issues warning letter to Boehringer Ingelheim API plant

4:39 AM MDT | May 22, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

The US FDA issued a warning letter earlier this month to the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and finished pharmaceutical manufacturing facility of Boehringer Ingelheim (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany) at Ingelheim am Rhein, for violations of cGMP. An FDA...

Europe

Mitsubishi Plastics acquires full ownership of engineering plastics business

12:10 AM MDT | May 22, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

Mitsubishi Plastics (Tokyo) says that it has acquired a 50% stake in Aquamit (Amsterdam) from the Quadrant Founders Group, and that Aquamit became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Plastics on 21 May. Aquamit is a holding company of Quadrant (Lenzburg...

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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

Mitsui Chemicals breaks ground on metallocene polymer plant in Singapore

2:43 AM MDT | May 22, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

Commercial operation at Evolue plant will begin in 2015 Mitsui Chemicals says that Prime Evolue Singapore, a joint venture of Prime Polymer (Tokyo) and Mitsui & Co., has today broken ground on the previously announced new production plant for Evolue...

Mideast/Africa

Ma'aden restarts ammonia and diammonium phosphate plants

2:02 AM MDT | May 19, 2013 | Natasha Alperowicz

Saudi Arabian Mining Co.’s (Ma’aden; Riyadh) subsidiary Ma’aden Phosphate Co. (MPC) has restarted its ammonia manufacturing complex at Ras Az Zawr, Saudi Arabia, the company announced today. The 1.1-million m.t./year ammonia plant was...

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