MEGlobal on Monday nominated its October Asian contract price for monoethylene glycol at $1,220/mt CFR, up $10 from its price for September, a company source said in an email. The October ACP reflects the short-term supply and demand ...
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Clariant International and Wilmar International have received the relevant merger clearances for the establishment of their 50-50 joint venture called 'the global amines company', which is now in operation. The global amines company will ...
South Korea's HC Petrochem plans to further cut runs at its No 2 aromatics plant at Daesan to 70% from early next week, due to weak production margins for paraxylene, a company official said Thursday. "Operating at 70% capacity is the ...
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Japanese automaker Honda Motor's Chinese venture Dongfeng Honda Automobile is planning to recall 408,069 vehicles in China over the defective piston rods. The recall affects the company CR-V sport utility vehicles (SUV) manufactured for ...
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The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China said that BMW Brilliance Automotive will recall 143,215 5-series cars in China over power steering defects, in September 2013. All these cars were ...
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Asian styrene monomer prices rose $8/mt from Wednesday's assessment, with Thursday morning pegs assessed at $1,808.50/mt FOB Korea and $1,837.50/mt CFR China amid market talk that Saudi Petrochemical Co, or Sadaf, has shut its 580,000 ...
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MEGlobal on Monday nominated its August Asia contract price for monoethylene glycol at $1,140/mt CFR, up $40 from its price for July, a company source said in an email. "The August 2013 ACP reflects the short term supply/demand situation ...
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Italian auto maker Fiat Group SpA will look for a second partner in the Chinese mainland in a bid to develop Jeep, a brand under Chrysler Group LLC. Zeng qinghong, general manager with GAC Group, signed a framework agreement with Mike ...
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Microalgae innovator Solazyme has entered into an agreement with starch producer Roquette to terminate the joint venture (JV) between the parties - Solazyme Roquette Nutritionals, with respect to their joint venture and operating agreement ...
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The spot market for Asian isomer-grade mixed xylenes is likely to shrink to a third of its current size next year as a major spot seller diverts a large chunk of its product into making paraxylene, market sources said Thursday. "The ...
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INEOS Nitriles and Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Group Corporation have signed a non binding Heads of Terms, setting out their intention to establish a 50/50 Joint Venture, to build and operate a world scale Acrylonitrile plant to be ...
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The Cheswick, Pa.-based reinforcements supplier's 50 percent share in the Shelby, N.C.-based joint venture, a glass fiber weaving operation that serves the wind energy industry, goes to Hexagon Devold (Langevåg, Norway). PPG Fiber ...
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MEGlobal set its June North American Benchmark price for monoethylene glycol at 63 cents/lb, a rollover from May, a company source said Friday. Market players said Friday there was also talk that other US producers could keep prices flat ...
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Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company of Dallas, Texas, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan, announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to establish a 50:50 joint venture for the ...
Enbridge, the Calgary-based crude oil carrier, will have to "wait and see" whether it faces a replay of rival TransCanada's Keystone XL regulatory battle as it seeks US State Department approval for changes to its Alberta Clipper (Line 67) ...
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