Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem will expand its domestic linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) production capacity with an investment of about BRL50m ($23m). With the expansion, the LLDPE production is expected to increase by ...
Tags: Polyethylene Production, Braskem
The Western Asian Arab country of Kuwait’s state owned petrochemical firm, Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) is expecting an annual 46 percent increase in its production capacity after the initiation of new strategic projects for ...
Sistema JSFC, the largest publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, announces that its subsidiary JSC United Petrochemical Company has signed a joint venture ("JV") agreement with Mexican company Grupo Petrotemex, ...
The exports from Venezuela’s state-owned oil and natural gas company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), especially of methanol, would be affected severely in 2014, owing to the application of tariff increase by the European Union (EU). ...
Tags: EU Tariff, Methanol Exports
Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies and The Dow Chemical Company have announced that PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina), China’s largest oil and gas producer and ...
Stirred by improving financial condition of developed countries, as global demand for petrochemical products is rising, Iran has launched or is working to launch several new projects to boost its petrochemical strength to cash in on the ...
Tags: Petrochem Projects, Textile
South African-based Sasol and Switzerland-based Ineos will team up to produce high density polyethylene in the US, the companies said Wednesday, announcing plans for a joint venture which would include a 426,000 mt/year HDPE plant. "This ...
Major infrastructure projects and extensive plans to galvanise residential construction have fuelled demand for building materials in Saudi Arabia, prompting the government to intervene in the cement market for the second time in as many ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
INEOS Technologies announced that it has been chosen to provide the Innovene PP process to Oriental Energy Company Limited based in Nanjing for its subsidiary, Ningbo Fuji Petrochemical Company Limited. The unit, to be built in Ningbo, ...
Tags: PP Technology, Textile
INEOS Technologies is pleased to announce that it has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of medium density and high density polyethylene to CNOOC Oil and Petrochemical Company Limited for its cracker complex located in ...
Tags: China, Cnooc, Ineos Technology
Saudi Arabia's National Petrochemical, or Petrochem, announced Monday that its affiliate Saudi Polymers has completed maintenance work at its polymers plant in Jubail and will restart all units there early next week. The units were shut ...
Tags: Saudi Polymers, Jubail Plant
It is reported that despite of the sanction and blacklist by the United States, Iran’s Mahshahr Petrochemical Company is going to expand its production with the assistance from Turkish company and Korean company. It is said that ...
Tags: Petrochemical Company, Mineral
Food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak has signed a supply agreement with petrochemical company Braskem for ‘I'm green’ low-density polyethylene (LDPE) made from sugarcane. The Swedish packaging firm will use the ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Green Plastic
Iran’s contribution to the Middle East’s petrochemical output is expected to grow to about 41 percent by end of the sixth Five-Year Development Plan in 2020, according to an official of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC). ...
Tags: ME Petrochem Output, Textile
Sahara Petrochemicals Company declares that; based on the request of latest Sahara Board meeting, which took place on 02 June 2013, the start of the initial mutual understanding to study the merge with the Saudi International Petrochemical ...
Tags: Sipchem, Textile, Sahara Petrochemicals