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REPSOL
LDPE plant explosion in Tarragona
11.11.2013
BAYEGAN
Plans for Turkish PP project on again / Fully integrated plant to start operations in 2017
30.10.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
LyondellBasell: Force majeure for HDPE from Plock facility
29.10.2013
VERSALIS
Partnership with LG Chem for mLLDPE
29.10.2013
INEOS
Grangemouth to reopen after labour dispute ends / UK agrees to grants, loans for ethane terminal
28.10.2013
BRASKEM
Plans to expand LLDPE capacity in Brazil / Additional 120,000 t due on stream in 2015
25.10.2013
SUNPOR
EPS capacity expansion postponed to 2015 / Plans to raise “Lambdapor” grey EPS output by 60,000 t/y in two stages
23.10.2013
SIBUR
President Putin on hand to officially open PP production at Tobolsk
23.10.2013
SOCAR
PP and HDPE production to commence in Sumgayit in Azerbaijan in 2016
09.10.2013
ALPEK
Petrochemicals JV with Sistema in Russia / Annual capacities of 600,000 t each for PTA and PET
09.10.2013
REPSOL
Plans to invest EUR 120m in Tarragona and Puertollano through 2016 / Restructuring for high-grade materials EVA, PE metallocene grades and polyols / Days numbered for EPS site Monzon
01.10.2013
TICONA
November price increase for UHMW-PE and VHMW-PE grades
27.09.2013
REPSOL
Expansion of German sales distribution network for polyolefins
25.09.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Formosa Plastics declares force majeure for HDPE following flash fire at US site Point Comfort
20.09.2013
SOLVAY / INEOS
Awaiting clearance from European Commission for PVC JV
18.09.2013
SLOVNAFT PETROCHEMICALS
Ceremony for extension of LDPE production in Bratislava
17.09.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Fiery flare-offs at Versalis LDPE plant in Ferrara / Production shut down for a week
05.09.2013
TOTAL
French management prepared to close naphtha cracker / Fate of Carling site and polymer plant uncertain
02.09.2013
POLYONE
Closing of French compounding site underway / Entity previously owned by Spartech
02.09.2013
DOW
Sites selected in Texas and Louisiana for US plastics projects / Louisiana projects to be completed end-2016
30.08.2013
SINOPEC
Produces first commercial-grade ethylene at Wuhan facility / Commissioning now complete of petrochemicals complex
22.08.2013
INDORAMA
Employees at Workington PET facility fear closure
21.08.2013
PET RECYCLING EUROPE
Bottle collection forecast to reach 2.1m t by 2017 / Recycling growth of 5.6% in 2012 / Petcore/Plastics Recyclers Europe report
16.08.2013
LUKOIL
Postponement yet again of production activities in the Ukraine
07.08.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Versalis: Force majeure for EVA from Oberhausen facility
07.08.2013
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