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DEGUSSA
PMMA compounding starts in Taiwan
19.07.2007
BASF
Parts of styrenics businesses up for grabs / Offer from "interested party" / EPS not for sale
18.07.2007
LIAONING HUAJIN CHEMICALS
HDPE plant contract awarded to Technip
17.07.2007
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
Takeover of Taiwan Ure-Tech completed / TPU business headquarters to move to Hong Kong
16.07.2007
HUNTSMAN
“Definitive agreement” on USD 10.6 bn takeover by Hexion / Basell declines to raise the stakes
13.07.2007
SABIC
US regulatory authority approves GE Plastics acquisition / EU vote due in early August
13.07.2007
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Ineos lifts force majeure from Cologne cracker
13.07.2007
INEOS
Two PP lines in France to be shut down / Key accounts transferred to other sites
13.07.2007
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
First BaySystems facility opened in India
12.07.2007
ARKEMA
Office move complete as optimisation continues
12.07.2007
HUNTSMAN
Bidding war beginning? / Apollo ups its offer / High level of debt
11.07.2007
NILIT
Israeli fibres and engineering plastics producer acquires Frisetta Polymer / Expansion planned
11.07.2007
PETKIM
Kazakh-Russian group wins race for majority of Turkish petrochemical producer / Deal questioned by trade unions
11.07.2007
BASF
Concentration on higher-end plastics / Growth rates above the market / Polycarbonate of interest
10.07.2007
SOLVAY
Joint venture with Sibur confirmed / Russian vinyls facility to be built at Kstovo / 330,000 t/y PVC capacity could expand to 510,000 t/y
10.07.2007
HYDRO POLYMERS
PVC reactor shut down in UK / No force majeure or supply restrictions
10.07.2007
HUNTSMAN
Hexion owner outbids Basell owner for US chemical group / Private equity funds in bidding war?
06.07.2007
BASELL
Alastian sales channel expanded to all polyolefins
06.07.2007
LANXESS
Soft touch plastics introduced in Europe / Applications in US auto, marine markets
05.07.2007
VINNOLIT
EU approves takeover of Inos E-PVC
03.07.2007
LANXESS / INEOS
Deal on Lustran Polymers / UK group to acquire ABS business in two stages / JV from September
02.07.2007
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Shin-Etsu removes force majeure on PVC
02.07.2007
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Ineos Olefins: Force majeure on ethylene and propylene from Cologne
02.07.2007
GE PLASTICS
Sabic buries polycarbonate project with Petrochina / “Negative economics”
02.07.2007
BASELL
End for PP production in Canada / Slurry process no longer competitive
29.06.2007
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