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PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Major fire at Iran's Bandar Imam economic zone hits naphtha tank, aromatics units / No known casualties / Paraxylene leakage suspected / Restart in several weeks
 		12.07.2016
HIGH-PERFORMANCE PIGMENTS
Environmental controls impact raw materials availability / Global market forecast to increase by 3% per year to 2021 / Growth in emerging markets continues to decline / Smithers Pira report
 		22.06.2016
TURKEY
Plastics industry slowly starts to grow again / Gains still fall short of expectations / Europe's second largest processing country / Few changes on the imports front / Pagev highlights the need to improve competitiveness
 		21.06.2016
FRANCE
Situation on petrochemicals front appears to be easing / Pilots announce strikes coinciding with start of UEFA Championship
 		10.06.2016
WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITES
US demand to grow by 6.9% per year to 2020 / Higher value products favoured as economy improves / Freedonia report
 		10.06.2016
US BIOPOLYMERS
Demand set to increase by 4.3% annually / Cellulose ethers account for one third of market / Packaging segment benefits from declining PLA prices / Freedonia study
 		07.06.2016
POLYURETHANE
Ukraine imposes anti-dumping duties on semi-finished PU materials
 		07.06.2016
SHALE GAS
Non-binding vote to ban fracking passes Scottish Parliament / Ineos “focused on England” / Crotty says Scotland will “miss out”
 		07.06.2016
FRANCE
Strikes widened to include nuclear plants / Refinery blockade hits plastics converters
 		27.05.2016
FRANCE
Police slowly clear union barricades blocking refineries / Public mood flags / Union threatens to extend strikes to rail and nuclear plants / More force majeure declarations
 		25.05.2016
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
PE, PP: Ineos declares force majeure for Lavéra and Sarralbe
 		25.05.2016
FRANCE
Petrochemical output increasingly threatened by strike / Most refineries affected / Many FM declarations / Minister says the country has been taken hostage
 		25.05.2016
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
PP: FCC outage at Unipetrol in Kralupy / Refinery completely switched off / No propylene for Litvinov
 		20.05.2016
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
PE, PP, PS: Strike leads Total to declare force majeure for Gonfreville / Other sites also affected
 		19.05.2016
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
LDPE: Renewed glitch at Versalis' plant in Ferrara / Fourth emergency shutdown this year / Line said to have resumed normal operations
 		12.05.2016
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