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BASF
New plant for PA starting material Cdon starts at Ludwigshafen / Environmentally friendly process
02.12.2009
LYONDELLBASELL
One PP line in Wesseling to close by year's end
01.12.2009
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Qatofin's LLDPE line in Mesaieed / Qatar officially comes on stream
30.11.2009
EVONIK
Shanghai acrylics complex on stream / “Biggest Chinese supplier of methacrylate specialities”
30.11.2009
THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS
Global consumption to rise by 6% annually / China at pole position / Motor vehicles remain largest market / Freedonia study
27.11.2009
BIOPLASTICS
Climate change concerns drive demand / Market expected to reach 900,000 t in 2013
26.11.2009
UNYLON
Polish company ZAT acquires insolvent PA producer / Backward integration with caprolactam from Tarnow
24.11.2009
LYONDELLBASELL
“Preliminary, non-binding” takeover bid from Reliance / Exit from Chapter 11 to be delayed?
23.11.2009
FUTERRO
Production of PLA bioplastics begins at demo plant
23.11.2009
POLYOLEFINS
Global surplus is ever lengthening / Balance of production shifts / PEPP 2009 congress
23.11.2009
MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL
Offer to acquire Mitsubishi Rayon
20.11.2009
REICHHOLD
Polyester resins production facility opens in India
19.11.2009
ITALY
Vinyls Italia plants back up by Christmas? / Eni agrees feedstock supply / New bidders
18.11.2009
US PLASTICS MARKET
September sees year-on-year increase of over 50% / Decline in house building and weakening retail sales hit 2008 consumption / ACC report
18.11.2009
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Wave of polyethylene imports from the Middle East rolls in slowly / CMAI Europe conference in Düsseldorf
17.11.2009
RUSVINYL
PVC project to go ahead / Start-up postponed until 2013
17.11.2009
COMPOSITES
European downturn has bottomed out, but recovery unlikely before 2013 / Reinforced plastics federation says production down by a third this year / Thermosets counter thermoplastics challenge
16.11.2009
BRASKEM
Mexican PE complex planned with Idesa / Investment cost estimated at USD 2.5 bn
16.11.2009
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
BASF lifts FM for maleic anhydride from Feluy
13.11.2009
ARKEMA
EVOH distribution agreement with Chang Chun
12.11.2009
LUCITE
Official opening ceremony for new MMA facility in Singapore / World's first plant powered by Alpha technology
12.11.2009
ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS
Nascent market forecast to grow at 8.3% annually
11.11.2009
ARKEMA
30,000 t/y PVC unit to be shut down at Balan / France
10.11.2009
MICHEL BAULE
Sale of PUR and thermoplastics processor Exsto / Focus on PUR casting resins and machinery
06.11.2009
BOREALIS
Follow-up: HDPE line in Beringen to close in March 2010
05.11.2009
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