BASIC CHEMICALS

Mitsui Temporarily Shuts Ethylene Plant

March 12, 2010 | Deepti Ramesh

Mitsui Chemicals says it has temporarily suspended operations at its 553,000-m.t./year ethylene plant at Ichihara, Japan, to conduct repairs and maintenance. Operations at the ethylene plant were first...

Click here...

MORE BASIC CHEMICALS

Dow Declares Force Majeure on Phenol in the Americas

Dow Chemical has declared force majeure on phenol in the Americas due to “circumstances beyond its reasonable control.” The company’s Oyster Creek, TX phenol facility, which...

Yara International Will Not Raise Offer for Terra Industries

Yara International said today that it will not raise its offer for Terra Industries to match or exceed a bid form CF Industries Holdings. Yara agreed last month to buy Terra for $4.1 billion in a deal, which would create a global fertilizer giant and...

Deepak Fertilisers, Australian Firm Study Chemical Complex in Australia

Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals (Pune, India), in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange (Mumbai), says it has entered into non-binding commercial negotiations with mining services company Australian Explosive Technologies Group (AET; Parkside, Australia) for...

PotashCorp Boosts First Quarter Earnings Outlook

The company raised its guidance significantly due to rebounding potash demand and improving nitrogen and phosphate margins....

Terra Industries Accepts CF Industries' Offer

Terra Industries says it has accepted CF Industries' $47.40/share offer, which was made on March 2. The offer values Terra at about $4.72 billion. Terra has informed Yara International, which offered to buy the company for $41.1/share last month, that...

Ras Laffan Olefins Set to Start This Month

Operations at the Ras Laffan Olefins Co. (RLOC) ethylene unit in Ras Laffan, Qatar are expected to start this month, according to Chevron, parent of one of the joint venture partners in the project....

Study Predicts Widespread Company Failures Will Precede Solar Market Boom

The volume of solar installations will grow at a 23% annual rate from 2010 to 2015, but revenue will grow by just 14%, as prices fall due to remaining overcapacity, says market research firm Lux Research (New York)....

Four Injured in Explosion at Cristal Global's U.K. TiO2 Plant

Four people have been injured following an explosion at the Stallingborough, U.K. manufacturing plant of titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer Cristal Global (Cristal; Yanbu, Saudi Arabia). A reactor tank ruptured today at 00:30 local time releasing a cloud of...

Outage at Eastman's TX Facility Expected to Impact First-Quarter Earnings

Eastman Chemical says its Longview, TX olefins complex will be down following an equipment breakage that has interrupted production of certain products and intermediates. The company expects the outage to cut first-quarter 2010 earnings per share by about 20...

Basic Chemicals Archives »

SEARCH