INEOS Shale gas arrives at Grangemouth after delay / “Hugely important day” for the UK / Fewer fracking applications this year	30.09.2016
KURARAY Feasibility study for butadiene derivatives project in Thailand / PTT and Sumitomo as partners / Plans for PA 9T and HSBC facilities	26.09.2016
SHELL First aromatics splitter commissioned at Pernis refinery / More benzene for captive use in Moerdijk	20.09.2016
BASF Sales and earnings fall in Q2 2016 / Lower costs hit selling prices / Performance Materials business holds up well / New TDI plant start date unclear / CEO Bock upholds forecast	28.07.2016
SHELL Green light for US shale gas-fed cracker complex in Pennsylvania / Downstream units for 1.6m t/y of PE / Location close to North American plastics customers	09.06.2016
PLASTICS AND HEALTH German environmental group calls for BPA replacement in cashier receipts / ECHA study ongoing	06.06.2016
OXEA New management structure / Salim Al Huthaili named CEO	20.05.2016
POLYMER PRICES China Engineering Thermoplastics April 2016: Increase in oil and tight supply drive up most feedstocks / Polymer notations firm to rising / PMMA skyrockets / Outlook for May mostly seasonally normal	11.05.2016
SHELL / CNOOC Joint venture partners plan to double capacities at south Chinese petrochemicals site / New 1m t/y cracker	29.03.2016
ALBIS PLASTIC Planning “significant investments” in UK subsidiary / Albis (UK) celebrates 50th anniversary	25.01.2016
K.D. FEDDERSEN Distributing Hyosung's polyketone in Europe and Latin America	12.01.2016
POLYMER PRICES China Standard Thermoplastics December 2015: Feedstock notations firm / Domestic producers fail to lift polymer prices / Cost of imports continues to slide / National polymer inventory trending slightly long amid flat demand	08.01.2016
SHELL Moerdijk cracker restarted / Lengthy SM/PO repair works finally completed / Singapore-based cracker down / Preparing for expansions in China and the US	23.12.2015
POLYMER PRICES China Engineering Thermoplastics November 2015: Feedstock costs trending down / Polymer notations continue to drop / PA sees largest fall / Consumption at normal levels / Little change expected in December	09.12.2015
SHELL Huge alpha olefins plant to go up in Geismar / Largest global site for LLDPE co-monomers	03.12.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Olefins: Shell restarts Wesseling cracker	18.11.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Fire shuts Shell's Moerdijk cracker again / No indication of how long outage will last	13.11.2015
SHALE GAS Ethane imports will soon feed Europe's ethylene crackers / Sunoco opens its terminal in Pennsylvania / Ineos to supply FEP's Mossmorran cracker from Grangemouth	13.11.2015
POLYETHYLENE High-pressure production: LDPE becoming increasingly tight in Europe / Global importance wanes / New plants mostly flexible and easily switched to EVA / Specifically targeted types more expensive	30.10.2015
BASF CEO lowers sales and earnings forecast for 2015 after weaker than expected Q3 / Declining demand from China and lower oil prices pressure / Plastics businesses perform well	28.10.2015
UPDATE - PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Unipetrol's Litvinov cracker only expected to restart in July 2016 / Outage impacts Q3 results	23.10.2015
MAUSER Dutch IBC specialist plans IPO in the US	19.10.2015
POLYETHYLENE Low-pressure production: HDPE and LLDPE output linked / Number of global swing plants rising / European lines no longer competitive / Local converters increasingly dependent on imports / Exclusive PIE report	09.10.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS BASF/Shell: Ellba styrene and propylene oxide plant in Moerdijk to resume operations by year's end	08.10.2015
VERSALIS New client for Porto Marghera ethylene / Shell contract ends / Green chemistry takes a backseat	01.10.2015

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