Ineos ChlorVinyls plans to close its 149,000 mt/year mercury chlorine cell room at Wilhelmshaven, Germany during the second quarter of 2013, a company source said Tuesday. The previously announced move to reconfigure its 300,000mt/yr ...
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European monoethylene glycol spot prices moved higher in the week to Friday as the turnaround season in Europe approaches and as Asian prices increased, sources said. FCA prices were assessed Friday Eur10/mt ($13.6/mt) higher on the week ...
Ineos Phenol plans to increase its US acetone prices by 6 cents/lb ($132.28/mt) on February 4, according to a letter the company sent to its customers January 25 and obtained by Platts Wednesday. Ineos produces 1.2 million mt of ...
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The European monoethylene glycol January contract price was fully settled Wednesday at Eur1,068/mt ($1,422/mt) FD NWE, industry sources said Thursday. This represents an increase of Eur20/mt on December. The initial settlement ...
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Germany based Ineos is likely to undertake a routine cleaning operation at its Acrylonitrile (ACN) plant in March 2013 and will be off-stream for a week. A Ineos company official informed fibre2fashion that, “Line No-3 of the ACN ...
Ineos Europe said Wednesday it has entered into 15-year shipping agreements with Danish shipping company Evergas for the transportation of ethane into Europe from the US Mariner East project. The Mariner East pipeline, processing and ...
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Ineos in December converted its 240,000 mt/year C4 linear low-density polyethylene plant in Cologne, Germany, to metallocene LLDPE c6 production, industry sources have said. Ineos was not immediately available for comment. As a ...
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US domestic polypropylene contracts for December were expected to rise 1 cent/lb ($22/mt) from November to around 66-67 cents/lb for homopolymer injection, in line with a similar uptick taking place in the monomer market, sources said ...
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Chemicals major Ineos said Tuesday it will construct a new ethane tank at its Rafnes site in Norway. The project will allow the site to accommodate the ethane supply coming from the US starting in 2015. The ethane will be used to run ...
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Ineos is considering a further cut in production run rates at its acrylonitrile plants in Europe due to declining demand, a company source said Tuesday. Ineos operates a 300,000 mt/year plant in Cologne, Germany and a 280,000 mt/year ...
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INEOS Europe AG has announced that it has completed supply and infrastructure agreements that will secure a significant volume of ethane feedstock from the US, for use in its European cracker complexes. The company has agreed to a long ...
INEOS Technologies has licensed its Innovene PP Process for the manufacture of homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers to China Shenhua Coal to Chemical Xinjiang Coal Chemical Company, a subsidiary of China Shenhua Group ...
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Technip in a JV with Odebrecht and ICA Fluor awarded large EPC contract by Braskem Idesa for the Ethylene XXI project Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. awarded to a joint venture formed by Odebrecht (40%), Technip (40%) and ICA Fluor ...
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UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that China's Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) Co. Ltd. has licensed Honeywell's UOP methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology to convert methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. Honeywell's ...
A US-based gas and chemical group is to create what it calls the world’s largest energy-from-waste facility on Teesside. Air Products, which has its headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is to commence work on building the plant in ...
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