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PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
DuPont declares FM for ethylene copolymers from Texas / Flooding hits infrastructure at Sabine facility
22.09.2008
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Bayer MaterialScience declares FM for isocyanates, PC and PC copolymers in North America
22.09.2008
HIP PETROHEMIJA
EUR 140m investment in polyolefins / Privatisation stalls / Merger with NIS oil group “urgently needed”
22.09.2008
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Damage to US plants from Hurricane "Ike" limited FM declarations reflect local infrastructure problems
22.09.2008
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Polystyrene: BASF plans to slash European output
19.09.2008
REICHHOLD
Resins plant planned for Tianjin, China
19.09.2008
ASHLAND
Agreement with NPPL secures India production
19.09.2008
LANXESS
Antwerp caprolactam capacity to increase
18.09.2008
VINYTHAI
Thai PVC plant expanded / Further expansion to 400,000 t/y planned
18.09.2008
LYONDELLBASELL
PP complex planned for Trinidad and Tobago / Agreement signed with Lurgi and government
17.09.2008
BOREALIS
PP line for packaging grades dedicated in Burghausen / OMV completes cracker expansion and new C3 production line
16.09.2008
BASF
EUR 3.8 bn takeover bid for Ciba / Offer to close on 1 October 2008 / Leader in plastics additives
15.09.2008
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
EUR 300m upgrade of PU feedstocks planned in Germany by 2013 / Gas phase phosgenation process
15.09.2008
DUPONT
Expansion of capacity for “Tedlar” PVF film / Doubling of output / Backsheets for solar panels
15.09.2008
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
BorsodChem: Hungarian TDI plant offline due to technical problems
11.09.2008
EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL
Specialty compounds agreement signed for Asia Pacific
11.09.2008
LUCITE
Two takeover bids exceeding USD 2 bn mooted for acrylics producer / Mitsubishi Rayon, Saudi group competing?
10.09.2008
LURGI ZIMMER
Contract for new PBT plant in China
10.09.2008
TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS
PP debottlenecking in Feluy / Compounding in southern China
05.09.2008
CIBA
JV with Astra Polymers in Saudi Arabia
05.09.2008
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Korea's SK Energy with reduced cracker output
04.09.2008
SOLUTIA
Raw material costs slash earnings in nylon division / Voss to head this low-earning segment
04.09.2008
BOREALIS
Automotive supply agreement with MCC
04.09.2008
SOUTH ASIAN PETROCHEM
Plans for new polycarbonate plant in India / Asahi Kasei process bypasses phosgenation stage
02.09.2008
OLTCHIM
Buyer for Arpechim-Petrochemicals? / Losses in 2007 / Slight improvement in first half of 2008 / Privatisation now planned for October
01.09.2008
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