Canpotex rival Belarusian Potash Company settled 2010 potash contracts with Chinese buyers in December at a sharply discounted price of $350/m.t. in an effort to normalize consumption levels....
PCC was selected from a shortlist of six bidders....
Sibur (Moscow) says it has agreed to sell its Kauchuk JSC (Volzhskii, Russia) unit to Roel Corp. (Moscow). The deal forms part of Sibur's exit from non-core businesses, the company says. Kauchuk mainly makes...
The unit will consume locally produced para-xylene....
The duties are provisional and may become permanent in six months' time....
Expansions in China and the United States will drive growth in 2010, Dow Corning says....
U.S. chemical firms are projected to distribute 8.2 billion pounds of propylene resins by 2014, up from 6.8 billion pounds last year, according to a new report by consultancy (?) BCC Research (Wellesley, MA). That amounts to compound annual growth rate of...
The Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom; Beijing) says that it will extend the antidumping measures on phenol imported from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the...
The company will decide by mid-year whether to close the facility....