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INDORAMA
Intermediate growth targets reached / Clear market leadership in PET / As cotton hype ends, margins return to long-time average
 		22.11.2011
KURARAY
Raising EVOH output in Texas
 		22.11.2011
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
Raising PC compounding activities in Italy / Plans for additional investments in Europe
 		22.11.2011
A. SCHULMAN
Sales office opened in UAE / Part of Middle East expansion
 		21.11.2011
CRISTAL GLOBAL
Titanium dioxide slag plant planned in Saudi Arabia / Agreement signed with Outotec
 		21.11.2011
BRASKEM
Currency fluctuations result in Q3 net loss / EBITDA falls on lower resin prices / Brazil PVC project to start up in May 2012 / Brazilian resin demand flat
 		18.11.2011
BAYER
MaterialScience leads Chinese sales, investment / Dedication of new Shanghai TDI plant / Overproportional expansion of PC and PU consumption in China
 		18.11.2011
TOSOH
Japanese group shuts VCM units / Over a third of country's capacity affected / One worker killed
 		17.11.2011
OLTCHIM
Gazprom subsidiary interested in takeover / Production cuts continue in November
 		17.11.2011
BASF
Global HQ of dispersions & pigments to relocate to Hong Kong / Asia is the largest market
 		16.11.2011
EVONIK
Expansion of PMMA plant in Shanghai to go on stream as planned
 		16.11.2011
TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS
Shutdown of 90,000 t/y Louisiana PS plant / “No longer viable” due to depressed US market
 		16.11.2011
BOREALIS
Net profit nearly doubles in Q3 / Management sees increasingly challenging European market
 		16.11.2011
BRASKEM IDESA
Mexico PE complex more expensive than planned / Start up in 2015 / Ethane feedstock from Pemex
 		16.11.2011
MITSUBISHI RAYON
Significant rise in the availability of biologically based MMA soon
 		15.11.2011
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