http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2010 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 8:43:55 EDT Firm demand and tight supply caused by a flurry of outages in recent weeks have driven up ethylene prices. TIME OUT: Shell Chemical’s Norco, LA ethylene unit is one of four Gulf Coast... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/25327.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT BASF has declared force majeure on acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS in North America due to a shortage of butadiene feedstock at its 130,000-m.t./year plant at Tamaulipas, Mexico, sources... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/25328.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Arkema says it increased the price of all perester, percarbonate, perketal, diacyl and dialkyl organic peroxides in the Americas effective March 15, or as contracts allow, due to rising raw... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/25329.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT For the third time in six months, U.S. ethylene market players are said to be close to settling a multiple-month contract, this time for January and February. The deliberations continue a trend... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/25049.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Koch Industries’ Flint Hills Resources unit says it intends to demolish part of its shuttered Odessa, TX petrochemicals plant or sell it to someone who will do the same. There have been... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/25050.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Dow Chemical has increased the price of polycarbonate by €300/m.t. in Africa, Europe, India and the Mideast effective March 1, or as contracts allow Oxea (Oberhausen, Germany) says it... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/25051.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST The London Metal Exchange (LME) says it has modified the price discovery process for plastics futures contracts traded on the exchange. Beginning February 15, prices for the LME plastics... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/25052.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST U.S. olefins production rose sequentially in the fourth-quarter of 2009 by an average of about 6.7%, according to the latest production statistics from the National... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/25053.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Demand for soda ash is expected to recover this year across the industry as flat glass demand rebounds, market players say. “As we begin 2010, global soda ash demand recovery is underway,”... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/24763.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST The U.S. District Court in Wilmington, DE has ruled in favor of Eastman Chemical in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Wellman. The court’s decision that held two Wellman patents invalid... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/basic_chemicals_plastics/24764.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST