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SABIC
Net profit plummets in Q4 2008 / Abrupt downturn in demand hits Saudi petchems giant / Markets shocked
22.01.2009
SUNOCO
Texas 180,000 t/y PP facility to close
21.01.2009
LYONDELLBASELL
US bankruptcy court grants emergency financing / European converters are concerned about bonuses
12.01.2009
SABIC EUROPE
Launch of UHMWPE / Production start-up scheduled for Q2 2009
09.01.2009
POLIMERICA
“Lupotech T” specified for 300,000 t/y LDPE plant
08.01.2009
LYONDELLBASELL
Chapter 11 filing in New York / Finance holding Basell Germany involved, other non-US business unaffected
07.01.2009
LYONDELLBASELL
Markets waiting for news of debt renegotiation / Highly leveraged company says bankruptcy an option
06.01.2009
DOW
Joint venture with Kuwait is finalised / K-Dow to start up in January / PET and EG business included
04.12.2008
POLIMERI EUROPA
Entire petrochemicals complex in Sardinia to go offline for two months / Cracker, HDPE, chlorine chain and aromatics affected / Phenol chain down for all of 2009
01.12.2008
ROMPETROL
Polyethylene production reduced by 55% for two months / Nearly a quarter of the workforce to be temporarily laid off
28.11.2008
DOW
Renegotiation of polyolefins jv with Kuwait? / Financial crisis pressures Dow share price
27.11.2008
LYONDELLBASELL
Demand crisis forces wide-sweeping cost control measures / Plant closures and job cuts / Liquidity tight through Q1 2009
24.11.2008
BOREALIS
“Lupotech T” specified for 350,000 t/y LDPE plant
19.11.2008
INEOS
European olefins and polymers units to combine
17.11.2008
APPC
455,000 t/y PP plant commissioned in Jubail
14.11.2008
SABIC
New PP line comes on stream at Ibn Zahr / World's largest single “Unipol” facility
13.11.2008
BOROUGE
Logistics hub in China to handle UAE expansion
27.10.2008
TOTAL
Methanol to polyolefins process demonstrated
09.10.2008
GAIL
Cracker expansion in northern India / Downstream plants for PE and PP
03.10.2008
REPSOL
Expansion of petrochemicals complex in Portugal / Investment of EUR 1 bn
02.10.2008
SLOVNAFT
“Lupotech T” technology for new LDPE plant
30.09.2008
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Incident trips Ineos LDPE plant in Cologne / No force majeure
22.09.2008
HIP PETROHEMIJA
EUR 140m investment in polyolefins / Privatisation stalls / Merger with NIS oil group “urgently needed”
22.09.2008
BOREALIS
PP line for packaging grades dedicated in Burghausen / OMV completes cracker expansion and new C3 production line
16.09.2008
TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS
PP debottlenecking in Feluy / Compounding in southern China
05.09.2008
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