The eight developing countries that constitute the D-8 group can enhance cooperation in petrochemical sector by investing their surplus funds in projects of other member countries, Abdolhosain Bayat, Managing Director of Iran’s ...
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The US on Friday identified eight petrochemical companies it says are owned or controlled by the government of Iran and are therefore subject to sanctions. The US State Department also sanctioned two companies "for knowingly engaging in a ...
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The five new petrochemical projects that started operations since start of the current Iranian calendar year on March 21, 2013, are expected to boost the country’s petrochemical revenues by US$ 2 billion, National Petrochemical ...
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Iran’s proposal for forming a joint petrochemical forum by eight developing Muslim nations (D8) has won support from Turkey and Egypt, two leading petrochemical and engineering polymer producers of the Middle East, Iranian Deputy Oil ...
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Iran’s share in the Middle East’s petrochemical production has risen to 24.5 percent, Director of National Petrochemical Company’s (NPC) Planning and Development Department, Ramazan Ouladi has said. Mr. Ouladi said ...
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M&G Group has signed a licensee agreement with Mexican petrochemical company Alpek for IntegRex PTA technology, which will be used in its Corpus Christi PTA-PET plant construction project in the US. M&G previously announced the ...
Sipchem Marketing Company (an affiliate of the Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) took another important step forward to strengthen its global petrochemical marketing and service delivery when it formally opened its office ...
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The petrochemical production capacity of Iran is likely to reach 100 million tons by 2015, Mr. Abdolhossein Bayat, an Iranian Deputy Oil Minister, has said. Mr. Bayat, who is also the managing director of National Petrochemical Company ...
Austria's Borealis has acquired Netherlands-based DEXPlastomers from ExxonMobil Chemical Company and Royal DSM, the Austrian petrochemical company said in a statement issued Monday. No financial details were given. DEXPlastomers, founded ...
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SABIC is all set to add new Bimodal high density polyethylene (HDPE) grades to its portfolio, targeted primarily for the producers of blow molded bottles for household and industrial chemicals and for personal care. The Saudi Arabian ...
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Iran has floated a proposal to constitute a forum of petrochemical exporting countries, and the Iranian Government is now pursuing talks on the issue with several nations, including neighbouring countries, National Petrochemical Company ...
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Iran has decided to keep its export ban on polymers like acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, general purpose polystyrene, high impact polystyrene, polypropylene, polycarbonates and epoxy resins despite having lifted a ban on exports of other ...
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The first set of toluene and methanol methylation unit successfully completed its industrial test run at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Company on December 27, 2012. The results proved the technology’s feasibility and the high ...
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MNA reported that the National Development Fund of Iran has allocated USD 3 billion for financing petrochemical projects. IRNA report said that the sum will be channeled into 11 petrochemical projects, mainly in the west and the south of ...
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Tehran Times reported that Iran inaugurated a large petrochemical complex, with a projected annual output of 300,000 tonnes of high density polyethylene, in the western province of Kermanshah on Tuesday. The report said that the ...
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