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PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Anti-fracking movement has mounted effective campaign, study says / Technology also is credited with progress
 		02.01.2013
POLYMER DISTRIBUTION EUROPE
Distributors increase marketshare to 11% in 2011 / Sector continues to grow in importance / Top 10 groups account for half of pan-European distribution
 		02.01.2013
STANDARD THERMOPLASTICS
Global capacities exceed 252m t/y / PET output spearheads expansions in 2012 / More than half of global output found in Asia / China will continue to extend its lead in the coming years / Sabic still slightly ahead of Sinopec
 		21.12.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Iran commissions first stretch of ethylene pipeline / Massive Kavian cracker complex starts up in Assaluyeh
 		20.12.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
UK ends fracking moratorium / Controls on seismic activity / Environmentalists sceptical
 		18.12.2012
SOUTH KOREA
Petrochemicals capacity to rise by about 6m t/y to 2016 / Expansions expected in olefins and aromatics segments
 		14.12.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Shell lifts force majeure in Moerdijk
 		11.12.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
UK government creates new office to drive shale gas exploitation / End of exploration ban in sight?
 		11.12.2012
POLYURETHANE FOAMS
GM joins claimants in massive US price fixing case
 		10.12.2012
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
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Force majeure for styrene from Shell's Moerdijk plant remains in place
 		30.11.2012
FEEDSTOCK MARKETS
European olefin production still muted in Q3 2012
 		26.11.2012
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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