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LOTTE
Chemicals business acquired from Samsung is rebranded
20.06.2016
AXIALL / LOTTE
Groundbreaking ceremony for Louisiana ethane cracker / Start-up expected in 2019
17.06.2016
VERTELLUS
Insolvent speciality chemicals producer files for Chapter 11
17.06.2016
WESTLAKE
USD 3.8 bn is the magic number / Latest takeover bid accepted by Axiall / Combined company will become North America's second-largest PVC producer
15.06.2016
NOVA CHEMICALS
Additional LLDPE plant in Canada to start up in Q4 / Corunna cracker switches to shale gas
15.06.2016
BOREALIS
Finland cracker to be expanded / Lifting propylene and butadiene output
09.06.2016
AXIALL
South Korea's Lotte Group issues unsolicited offer for vinyls producer / Onset of a bidding war with Westlake?
09.06.2016
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
LANXESS
Leverkusen flame retardant storage facility is expanded
09.06.2016
BASF
US methane-to-propylene plant on hold / Volatile pricing hits shale gas projects
08.06.2016
HONEYWELL
Groundbreaking for MTO catalysts line in China / Eight MTO plants licensed as China cut reliance on oil imports
01.06.2016
SABIC
New research centre inaugurated at Geleen / “Milestone in innovation journey”
26.05.2016
SK INNOVATION
New propylene dehydrogenation plant inaugurated in South Korea / Saudi and Kuwaiti partners
26.05.2016
FRANCE
Police slowly clear union barricades blocking refineries / Public mood flags / Union threatens to extend strikes to rail and nuclear plants / More force majeure declarations
25.05.2016
FRANCE
Petrochemical output increasingly threatened by strike / Most refineries affected / Many FM declarations / Minister says the country has been taken hostage
25.05.2016
DOMO CHEMICALS
Future benzene deliveries in eastern Germany to come by pipeline / Massive investment project with partner Total Leuna
11.05.2016
TRINSEO
Margins lift Q1 2016 profit / Revenue falls on cheaper feedstocks and lower sales
11.05.2016
BOREALIS
Naming ceremony for massive ethane carrier / US shipments to Stenungsund expected to commence in Q4
09.05.2016
UNIPETROL
Fire-damaged cracker to resume partial operation in August / Q1 profits hit by outage / Construction of new PE plant to begin in June
02.05.2016
BRASKEM IDESA
New PE complex not affected by nearby VCM explosion
02.05.2016
ETB CATALYTIC TECHNOLOGIES
Funding for bio-butadiene pilot plant / Commercialisation expected within three years / Plans to license process globally
02.05.2016
BASF
Sale of polyolefin catalysts to W.R. Grace / Sharpened focus on chemical and refinery catalysts
28.04.2016
SIBUR
Growth in petrochemicals business drives 32% increase in 2015 operating profit / Capacity expansions bring sales and volumes gains
26.04.2016
INVISTA
Start-up of new HMD Plant in China / Part of USD 1 bn complex
26.04.2016
UPDATE - MEXICHEM / PEMEX
Number of fatalities from PMV blast rises to 32 / Access difficulties slow down search of Coatzacoalcos site
25.04.2016
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