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LYONDELLBASELL INDUSTRIES
New name announced for merged company
08.11.2007
WESTLAKE
Vinyls expansion planned for Calvert City / Investment of USD 90m includes large diameter PVC pipe plant / Weak vinyls demand hits third quarter profits
07.11.2007
DUPONT
Phase one of “Hytrel” consolidation complete
06.11.2007
A. SCHULMAN
Barington Capital requests company records
02.11.2007
RADICI
Expansion with adipic acid and HMDA / Entry into PA 6.10 and 6.12 production
02.11.2007
YANTAI WANHUA POLYURETHANE
300,000 t/y MDI unit to be built at Ningbo / Total capacity to reach 700,000 t/y by 2010
02.11.2007
PEQUIVEN
Venezuelan petrochemical group announces major expansion / Sales to reach USD 12 bn/y
02.11.2007
HEXCEL
Carbon fibre production to increase by 70%
02.11.2007
BASF
Earnings on plastics hit by plant outages in Q3 2007 / Styrenics sale is targeted by year's end
01.11.2007
TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS
Joint Venture with Galactic to produce PLA bioplastics
01.11.2007
DOW
Asset light strategy explained again / Dismissed executive Kreinberg files suit against JP Morgan
31.10.2007
SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS
Expansion of polycarbonate sheet production
31.10.2007
SIRMAX
Compounder on the advance / New plant in Poland / Marketing expansion in Germany
30.10.2007
BASELL
EC approves Lyondell Chemical acquisition
29.10.2007
SABIC
Results improve / Integration of GE Plastics in progress / Al-Mady to push aromatics chain
29.10.2007
A. SCHULMAN
Another private equity challenge / New York investor pushes for company sale / Proxy fight
29.10.2007
ARKEMA
New renewables label launched at K 2007
28.10.2007
EVONIK
Annual sales growth of 5% in plastics to 2009 / Methacrylates and high performance polymers
27.10.2007
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Polimeri LLDPE plant at Brindisi restarts, but FM still in place
26.10.2007
A. SCHULMAN
Challenging markets lead to 30% income drop
26.10.2007
PETKIM
Feeling of mistrust towards Armenian investors / Losing Turkish consortium likely to do the deal
26.10.2007
BASELL
Moerdijk PB-1 expansion
25.10.2007
SUMITOMO
LCP production set for expansion
25.10.2007
SAMSUNG / TOTAL
New PP line starts up in Korea
24.10.2007
ARKEMA
Optimisation of production of PA 11 monomer in Marseille
23.10.2007
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