PLASTICS

Report: Sabic opens compounding facilities at Jubail

5:08 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 (Jubail), according to a report from Saudi Gazette. "Both the...

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Total plans €1-billion modernization of Antwerp facilities

The project includes a refinery upgrading complex and a plant for converting refinery fuel gases into petrochemical feedstock....

Report: EU lets antidumping duties lapse on PET from 5 Asian countries, renews antisubsidy duty on PET from India

The European Union decided during a plenary session at Strasbourg, France, to let lapse a set of antidumping duties on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), imposed in 2000 on product imported from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand, according to a...

Technip awarded Nova Joffre PE expansion

Technip says it has been awarded the detailed engineering and procurement services contract for by Nova Chemicals’ previously announced polyethylene (PE) expansion project at Joffre, AB. The project includes the installation of a 431,000-m.t./year...

LyondellBasell to close HDPE unit in Germany

LyondellBasell Industries says it will close a 100,000-m.t./year high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit at Wesseling, Germany, in the third quarter....

Formosa Point Comfort fire impacts US HDPE supplies

A fire at Formosa Plastics’ Point Comfort, TX, on 2 May injured 16 people and shut down the PE-1 high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit, which produces Formolene high-molecular-weight (HMW) HDPE bimodal resin. The company declared force majeure (FM) on...

Ineos and Solvay confirm plans for vinyls JV; Solvay to exit PVC

Ineos and Solvay have confirmed CW’s exclusive report that they are forming a vinyls joint venture (CW, May 6, p. 7)....

Mexichem cleared to acquire PolyOne's specialty PVC assets, bidding for Solvay's Indupa assets

Mexichem (Tlalneplantla, Mexico) has received clearance from FTC—and its equivalent body in Germany—for Mexichem's acquisition of the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) specialty resins business of PolyOne, the company has announced. PolyOne entered into an...

Two of three lines operational at Formosa's fire-damaged HDPE unit

“At this point, it is estimated that the remaining production line will start up by late June,” Ken Mounger, v.p. and general manager/polyolefins, tells customers....

LyondellBasell to close HDPE Unit in Germany

LyondellBasell will shut down a 100,000-m.t./year high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit in Wesseling, Germany, in the third quarter....

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