Company news, polymer materials

SABIC EUROPE Launch of UHMWPE / Production start-up scheduled for Q2 2009	09.01.2009
POLIMERICA “Lupotech T” specified for 300,000 t/y LDPE plant	08.01.2009
LYONDELLBASELL Chapter 11 filing in New York / Finance holding Basell Germany involved, other non-US business unaffected	07.01.2009
DOW Liveris threatens Kuwait with legal action / Sabre rattling in pursuit of break-up fee for scuttled jv?	07.01.2009
LYONDELLBASELL Markets waiting for news of debt renegotiation / Highly leveraged company says bankruptcy an option	06.01.2009
KRATON Production of SBCs suspended at key sites in Europe and USA	06.01.2009
DOW Kuwaiti joint venture collapses / Declining oil revenues and credit crunch / Rohm and Haas shaky?	05.01.2009
LYONDELLBASELL Start-up of PP compounding plant in China / Saudi plant onstream in 2009	05.01.2009
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL Ethylene plant idled due to falling demand	05.01.2009
EQUISTAR Second Texas olefins unit temporarily idled	23.12.2008
PPG Euroresins appointed pan-European distributor	18.12.2008
SHELL Cracker at Moerdijk is up and running again	18.12.2008
HUNTSMAN Hexion merger plans “buried” for USD 1 bn in compensation / Out-of-court settlement / Billion-dollar litigation with banks still in play	16.12.2008
DOW Three plants at Terneuzen to close in restructuring plan	16.12.2008
A. SCHULMAN Job cuts in North America and Europe / Production capacity scaled back / Profits forecast downgraded	16.12.2008

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