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AMERICAS STYRENICS PS producer removes over 100,000 t/y of capacity from US market	21.01.2009
ERCROS PVC output in Tarragona to rise to 200,000 t/y / Site will become one of Europe's largest producers	20.01.2009
NOVA CHEMICALS Further reorganisation will bring up to 600 job losses / Greater focus on the olefins/polyolefins	19.01.2009
BRASKEM Withdrawal from PET business / Production on a competitive basis is no longer viable	15.01.2009
LYONDELLBASELL US bankruptcy court grants emergency financing / European converters are concerned about bonuses	12.01.2009
DOW Slight hope that K-Dow is not dead / Acquisition of Rohm and Haas still hanging in the balance	09.01.2009
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
DOW Three plants at Terneuzen to close in restructuring plan	16.12.2008
INEOS Lenders approve request for debt covenant waiver	12.12.2008
DOW Joint venture with Kuwait is finalised / K-Dow to start up in January / PET and EG business included	04.12.2008
ARKEMA Restructuring of vinyls chain continuing / Two French sites targeted / Nearly 170 jobs on the line	03.12.2008
POLIMERI EUROPA Entire petrochemicals complex in Sardinia to go offline for two months / Cracker, HDPE, chlorine chain and aromatics affected / Phenol chain down for all of 2009	01.12.2008
ROMPETROL Polyethylene production reduced by 55% for two months / Nearly a quarter of the workforce to be temporarily laid off	28.11.2008
DOW Renegotiation of polyolefins jv with Kuwait? / Financial crisis pressures Dow share price	27.11.2008
ARKEMA Production cutbacks for PA, PMMA and PVC	26.11.2008
LYONDELLBASELL Demand crisis forces wide-sweeping cost control measures / Plant closures and job cuts / Liquidity tight through Q1 2009	24.11.2008
ARKEMA Operating profits up 5.5% in third quarter 2008	24.11.2008
LA SEDA Financing obtained for Portuguese PTA plant / Interquisa acquisition finally falls through	21.11.2008
INEOS Waiver of debt covenants sought as demand crashes / Debts four times EBITA / Crotty “battening down the hatches”	20.11.2008
ARKEMA PVC technology agreement with Aker Solutions	20.11.2008
BOREALIS “Lupotech T” specified for 350,000 t/y LDPE plant	19.11.2008

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