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OMAN
Plans to build third petrochemical hub in Duqm / Creating an entirely new city from scratch
 		20.08.2012
WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITES
Growth in Southeast Asia outpaces Europe / Output forecast to rise 10% up to 2015
 		16.08.2012
AGRICULTURAL FILMS
PAFA reports promising results from recycling trial / EU-funded project to clean agricultural PE film
 		16.08.2012
GERMAN PLASTICS ECONOMY
Plastics industry holds its own in H1 2012 market turbulence / Expectations of slackening business going forward / Raw materials and euro crisis continue to bite
 		14.08.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Fire takes out Formosa's Mailiao styrene plant in Taiwan / August group earnings could suffer / Cracker maintenance
 		14.08.2012
IRAN
Deputy oil minister says EU petrochemicals embargo has had no effect / Analysts see significant cave-in
 		10.08.2012
BIOPLASTICS
New PLA study predicts global market volume of 800,000 t/y by 2020 / Capacities currently spread across 30 different sites / German nova-Institut poll
 		10.08.2012
BEYOND PLASTICS
German aluminium association reports production decline in H1 2012 / Positive outlook / Stability expected for H2
 		10.08.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
NPC: Deadly explosion rocks Iran's Bandar Imam Khomeini petrochemical complex
 		07.08.2012
SRI LANKA
Government grant to support local plastics industry / Sector dominated by SMEs / Plastics consumption expected to rise by 10-12% per year
 		07.08.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Equate temporarily shuts down MEG line following a fire
 		07.08.2012
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Styrolution declares force majeure for styrene from North America
 		02.08.2012
RIGID PACKAGING
Global demand to rise 6.4% annually up to 2016 / Plastics continue to account for largest market share / China will see greatest growth / Freedonia study
 		02.08.2012
TAIWAN
USD 3.3 bn state grant to revamp petrochemical sector
 		30.07.2012
FIBC
Imports to EU at 3-year high in 2011 / Latest EFIBCA data
 		30.07.2012
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