Company news, polymer materials

POLYONE Eight plants to close in realignment / Job losses of 150 / Annual savings of USD 17m expected	31.07.2008
SABIC EUROPE Restructuring at Teesside in UK / Two “unviable” aromatics units to shut / Exit from polyester chain	31.07.2008
DUPONT New “Vespel” polyimide plant starts in Singapore	31.07.2008
DUPONT PA and PPA capacity increases in China	30.07.2008
LA SEDA Talks on merger with Indorama / Result still open / Analysts sceptical	29.07.2008
COMPTEK Expansion in fluoropolymer compounds	29.07.2008
TICONA New 20,000 t/y UHMW-PE plant starts up at Nanjing	28.07.2008
PETKIM New owners to double capacity in five years	28.07.2008
SABIC First half 2008 sales increase by 54%	25.07.2008
LEL Turkey's Kemiropa joins European distribution network	25.07.2008
ADDCOMP Solvay's “Priex” business and assets acquired	24.07.2008
BASF Second synthetic waxes plant for Ludwigshafen site	24.07.2008
K-DOW PETROCHEMICALS New jv with Kuwait takes shape / HQ in US state of Michigan / Financial incentives	21.07.2008
ELASTOGRAN Systems houses to open in Poland and Slovakia	18.07.2008
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Dow shuts Terneuzen PS production “temporarily” / Need to restore margins	17.07.2008

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