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INDORAMA New PET plant to come on stream soon in the USA / Benefiting from market consolidation	16.03.2009
TOTAL Petrochemicals France streamlining to cost 306 jobs / Plants at Carling and Gonfreville to close	13.03.2009
CHINA NATIONAL SALT Construction of PVC complex in Shanxi province begins	12.03.2009
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE German MDI plant at Brunsbüttel shuttered until further notice / Customers supplied from Uerdingen	11.03.2009
DOW Delayed takeover of Rohm & Haas sealed / Closing on 1 April 2009 / Price unchanged, but deal restructured	10.03.2009
CHINA Support plan for petchems industry / Change to high-grade plastic products	10.03.2009
NIZHNEKAMSKNEFTEKHIM Start-up of PE production / Total polymer capacity now 600,000 t/y / Industrial park	06.03.2009
BAYER Profits of MaterialScience plunge 85% in Q4 2008 / PC capacity use down by half, with six plants mothballed / No short term recovery expected	04.03.2009
EVONIK Expanding capacity for high-performance polyamides in Witten	26.02.2009
NOVA CHEMICALS Abu Dhabi state investment firm IPIC in USD 2.3 bn friendly takeover bid / Deal includes credit backstop	25.02.2009
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Start up of delayed Saudi Arabian petrochemicals project set for end of March / Cracker and PE units	20.02.2009
VICTREX Business to be divided into two divisions / Signs of volume sales improvement in January	18.02.2009
INEOS VINYLS ITALIA Minister saves PVC deal between Ineos and Safi / Last-minute reprieve for Italian petchems sector	17.02.2009
VIETNAM Plastics production in its infancy / Five major petchems complexes under construction or planned / Many small plastics converters / High energy and material consumption due to outdated machinery	17.02.2009
ARKEMA Acquisition of PEKK specialist Oxford Performance Materials	17.02.2009
PETROBRAS Rio de Janeiro petrochemicals project progressed	16.02.2009
ITALY New round of talks on Ineos Vinyls Italia / Insolvency petition not yet filed / Minister Scajola intervenes	13.02.2009
DOW LDPE line in Texas to be shut down	13.02.2009
HUNTSMAN Work on European MDI plant stopped for now	13.02.2009
LYONDELLBASELL LDPE plants in UK and France “temporarily” idled	12.02.2009
YANTAI WANHUA Safic-Alcan appointed to distribute MDI products	12.02.2009
ITALY Collapse of PVC sector imminent? / Chain reaction threatens chemicals sector after deal between Ineos and Sartor falters	11.02.2009
BOROUGE “Borouge 2” to start up on time / Contract with Spanish engineering group is renegotiated	11.02.2009
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Dubai exchange again delays plastics futures launch	11.02.2009
INVISTA PET plant in Germany to close at the end of March / Severance package for employees / “No other option”	09.02.2009

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