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ALTANA
US specialty wax producer ChemCor acquired / Strengthening Additives & Instruments division
11.12.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
UK government creates new office to drive shale gas exploitation / End of exploration ban in sight?
11.12.2012
ALBEMARLE
Plans to raise eco-friendly flame retardant output in Orangeburg / USD 65m capital injection also earmarked for Polymer Catalysts business
10.12.2012
PPG INDUSTRIES
Titanium dioxide license agreement with Henan Billions concluded / Technology for chloride-grades
10.12.2012
POLYURETHANE FOAMS
GM joins claimants in massive US price fixing case
10.12.2012
NIZHNEKAMSKNEFTEKHIM
License from Ineos for two new PE plants / Commissioning in 2015
07.12.2012
SHANDONG SHENGQUAN CHEMICAL
Building new 200,000 t/y phenolic resins complex / Commissioning scheduled for July 2013
07.12.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Imminent consolidation of European HDPE production / Rising global competition
05.12.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Repsol reportedly idles Portuguese cracker for “market reasons”
05.12.2012
ARGENTINA
Petrochemicals capacity to remain flat to 2016, GlobalData reports / Dow upgrades Bahia Blanca PE operations
04.12.2012
PETRONAS
Ineos gets award for new HD/LLDPE swing plant / Part of mega-petchem project in Johor
04.12.2012
AZOTY TARNOW
Polish chemical group could be merged with ZAP in Azoty Holding / Eyeing new EUR 1.5 bn Baltic Sea petchems complex with Lotos
04.12.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Force majeure for styrene from Shell's Moerdijk plant remains in place
30.11.2012
IRPC
Propylene expansion about to go on stream / Additional capacity upgrade planned for 2015 / Future of caprolactam project with Ube uncertain
29.11.2012
MEXICHEM
Mexican VCM joint venture with Pemex could be axed
28.11.2012
SONGWON ADDITIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Follow-up: New OPS plant to be built in Abu Dhabi / Completion scheduled for late 2013
28.11.2012
MITSUI
Prime Polymers subsidiary building new metallocene LLDPE plant in Singapore / Part of medium-term growth strategy
27.11.2012
FEEDSTOCK MARKETS
European olefin production still muted in Q3 2012
26.11.2012
BASF
Groundbreaking for mega TDI plant in Ludwigshafen
26.11.2012
DOW
Propylene glycol output raised at Stade plant
26.11.2012
SONGWON INDUSTRIAL
Thioester joint venture with Tangshan Baifu Chemical is formalised
26.11.2012
REPSOL
Spanish Puertollano LDPE plant converted to EVA
26.11.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
European parliament rejects shale gas ban / “Robust rules” for fracking urged
26.11.2012
ARKEMA
EUR 70m French PVDF expansion buried / Union strike disrupted production
23.11.2012
AVIATION COMPOSITES
Market growing at 12.8% per year to USD 414m in 2018 / Composites offer weight reduction and impact resistance advantages over metal / Frost & Sullivan study
23.11.2012
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