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 ...
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Novomer Inc., a sustainable materials company offering a family of high-performance polymers and other chemicals from renewable feedstocks such as carbon dioxide (CO2), has announced the commercial introduction of Converge polypropylene ...
Tags: PPC Polyols, sustainable materials
Styrolution is seeking to expand polystyrene margins following the settlement of the June styrene contract price, the company said late Monday. With the Northwest European styrene contract agreed at Eur1,360/mt FOB ARA ($1,850/mt), down ...
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North America-based petrochemical companies are likely to enjoy a competitive advantage over their rivals based elsewhere for the next several years as a result of the US shale gas revolution, which provides both inexpensive feedstocks and ...
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is set to open a new sweetener and soluble-fiber manufacturing facility at the port of Tianjin in North China – the company’s first wholly-owned food ingredient production facility in China. ...
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According to a study form Lux Research, investment and growth in bio-based material and chemical capacity continues to increase globally. Aggregating 229 sites from 217 companies that are planned, operating, or have been shuttered between ...
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European polypropylene and polyethylene producers are targeting a May contract price increase because of low stock availability and seasonal demand, sources said. PE producers were aiming for increases of Eur20-60/mt ($28-83/mt) and PP ...
Tags: Polyolefin, PE, ethylene CP
Pacific Ethanol this year will continue to increasing its focus on diversifying feedstock, among its other initiatives, CEO Neil Koehler said Thursday. "Growing initiatives on advanced biofuels, corn oil, expansion of market, which can ...
US biodiesel production fell to 70 million gallons in January, down 48% from December, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. Production was up 6.1% compared with January 2013. Of the 530 million lb of feedstock used ...
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Honeywell announced a major enhancement to its Refinery and Petrochemical Modeling System (RPMS) that will improve model building and maintenance, case management, and optimization to help plants maximize profitability. The new release, ...
The CIF Northwest Europe naphtha cargo physical premium over the balance-month and the front-month swaps fell Tuesday to respectively $2.25/mt and $13.75/mt, their lowest level in April, according to Platts data. On April 2, the physical ...
Malaysia's export tax on crude palm oil will remain at 5.5% for May, unchanged from April, the Malaysia Palm Oil Board's website showed Tuesday. Biodiesel producers and traders said the tax rate would not impact Malaysian biodiesel ...
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The Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), a U.S. Department of Energy-Energy Frontier Research Center led by the University of Delaware, has announced a two-year program with ExxonMobil to research renewable chemicals from biomass. ...
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Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Ltd. (JM Davy), a global provider of advanced process technologies and Rennovia, Inc., a development stage company focused on the production of commodity and speciality chemicals from renewable feedstocks, ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals, Adipic Acid
Russia's Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat has launched a new pyrolisis furnace at its Monomer petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, in the Urals region of Russia, and expects its ethylene and propylene output this year will increase by around 13%, ...
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