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INEOS
Lid installed on Grangemouth ethane tank / Import of liquefied shale gas from US / Two more ships completed / Chairman Ratcliffe says plans for test drilling in Scotland will not breach moratorium
27.07.2015
LYONDELLBASELL
Incendiaries found at Berre site / Perpetrators remain at large / Accidental cause of blaze largely ruled out
21.07.2015
FEEDSTOCK MARKETS
Olefins: Unipetrol cracker in Litvinov taken off stream for unplanned maintenance turnaround / PP production curtailed
20.07.2015
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
TDI plant at Brunsbüttel to close in September / Conversion to MDI production by 2018?
15.07.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Upstream: Naphtha tank explodes in Berre / Suspected arson attack / LBI says production not impacted
14.07.2015
DUPONT
Performance Chemicals business successfully spun off as The Chemours Company
09.07.2015
BP
Phase 3 PTA plant starts up at Zhuhai / Chinese site first to use UK group's newest technology
08.07.2015
EVONIK
C4 capacity expansion successfully commissioned / New plants in Antwerp start up
06.07.2015
SKC / MITSUI
Polyurethanes joint venture officially launched
06.07.2015
BOREALIS
EUR 160m upgrade for four cracker units at Stenungsund facility
03.07.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Ethylene oxide: BASF lifts force majeure
01.07.2015
ROSNEFT
Russian oil giant raises international profile / Securing stakes in German refineries / Share in ChemChina acquired
26.06.2015
BASF
World-scale acrylics complex starts in Brazil / First of its kind for superabsorbers in Latin America
25.06.2015
OMV
German butadiene plant officially starts operations
23.06.2015
FEEDSTOCK MARKETS
Olefins: Repsol lifts FM for Tarragona cracker
16.06.2015
GRUPA AZOTY
UOP "Oleflex" technology chosen for Polish propylene plant
15.06.2015
VERDEZYNE
Exclusive distribution deal with Will & Co for bio-based DDDA in Europe / PA 6.12 feedstock plant expected to start up in 2017
15.06.2015
FEEDSTOCK MARKETS
Ethylene oxide: Ineos declares force majeure for Europe
11.06.2015
TOTAL
Updates on forces majeures / Availability of most PP grades still restricted / FM for Gonfreville HDPE could be lifted by month's end
08.06.2015
INDORAMA
Purchase of Cepsa's Canadian PTA plant wrapped up / Global PET production fully backward integrated into PTA
08.06.2015
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
New reactor for CO2-to-polyols plant in place / Dream Production in the home stretch
08.06.2015
FEEDSTOCK MARKETS
Olefins: Repsol's Tarragona cracker resumes operations
03.06.2015
MANALI PETROCHEMICALS
Indian group announces polyols capacity expansion / Proprietary technical process
03.06.2015
KEM ONE
VCM and PVC chain unlikely to restart before early July “at best” / Update on FM in Lavera
01.06.2015
PERSTORP
New oxo plant will also supply open market / Key use is in-house plasticiser production
27.05.2015
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