Dated Brent has fallen to a nine-week low, with uncommitted November Brent and Forties cargoes weighing on values amid weak local refinery uptake of the grade, sources said. Dated Brent fell to Forward Dated Brent minus 51 cents/b Monday, ...
Tags: Dated Brent, refiners, crudes
Construction major VolkerWessels is looking for partners to take ahead its idea of PlasticRoad, roads made of 100% recycled material. The company has said that the idea is still on paper, but plans to materialize it in three years. ...
Tags: packaging, VolkerWessels, PlasticRoad
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed Kaye Linkenhoger as sales manager, North America, for the group's growing line of K-FLEX low-VOC, non-phthalate plasticizers and coalescents. In this ...
Tags: Construction, adhesives, sealants, caulk
Dutch bottler of soft drinks and juices Refresco Gerber BV has raised $597m (€548m) through initial public offering on Amsterdam stock exchange. This is its third IPO this year, reported Bloomberg. Refresco sold 37.8 million ...
Tags: juices, facilities, Food
AkzoNobel is part of a major Dutch partnership working with Canada’s Enerkem to explore the use of waste streams as a feedstock for chemical production and the development of waste-to-chemicals facilities. The collaboration features ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Chemicals Feedstock
Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and, for the fifth consecutive quarter, an improvement in Return on sales (ROS) – from 8.0 percent to 9.1 percent. Excluding restructuring costs of €55 million, ROS was 10.6 ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Performance Coatings
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, commissioned its second benzoic acid reactor train at its facility in Rotterdam, Netherlands, adding 75,000 metric tons of capacity for the production of benzoic ...
The global provider of barcode printing services, labelling and EPC/RFID systems said the move was ideal for distributing SATO’s products to customers across the continent. Makoto Hayma, managing director, said: “Our ...
Canada-based dairy cooperative Agropur has agreed to acquire the assets of US-based cheese and dairy ingredients company Davisco Foods. As part of the acquisition, the company will acquire three Davisco cheese processing factories in ...
Tags: Agropur, Davisco Foods, Food
The over-the-counter price for 8,800 Btu/lb Powder River Basin coal dipped again Monday, as rail issues overhang the Western market. Mines in BNSF Railway's service area, in the northern reach of the basin, are having trouble guaranteeing ...
Tags: physical market, Western market
Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply compact heat exchangers for the caustic evaporation plant of AkzoNobel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The ...
European refining margins have recovered from their lows of last month, driven by a pick-up in products markets, especially jet fuel and gasoline, following run cuts throughout the region, according to traders. "Demand for products ...
Tags: Gasoline, pick-up in products, jet fuel
The Asia to Europe arbitrage window for methanol will remain shut in the third quarter of 2014 on expectations of higher export volumes from the Middle East and stronger Chinese demand that would soak up Asian supplies, sources said late ...
Tags: Methanol, natural gas
The Urals crude market strengthened sharply Wednesday in both Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean as buying interest increased sharply to clear some remaining prompt June cargoes. Differentials for CIF Augusta Urals Aframax cargoes ...
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European butyl acetate producers are again struggling to pass on feedstock increase this month and are having to accept declining margins, sources said this week. Butac is produced from iso-butanol, a propylene derivative, and acetic ...
Tags: Butyl Acetatem, propylene