Swiss supplier of polyacrylonitrile co-polymers INEOS Barex has signed an agreement to acquire the Polyacrylonitriles Business from Mitsui Chemicals for an undisclosed value. The agreement, which is expected to bring together ...
Tags: Polyacrylonitriles, Packaging
Japan's Osaka Gas and Kyushu Electric Power have signed a 12-year LNG transportation agreement with shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines to lift contracted volumes from the Ichthys LNG project offshore Australia, Osaka Gas said in a statement ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Gas
Apart from gradually replacing traditional lighting, LED lighting is targeting the high-end market with more value-added products. In addition, commercialization of OLED lighting has also started. LED lighting prices were four times as ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lighting
The seizure of funds of the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was triggered by an alleged failure of the company to comply with U.S. financial regulations, according to a federal court document. The U.S. District Court in Maryland on ...
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 ...
Major Chinese purified terephthalic acid makers offered down their paraxylene feedstock Monday as the May PX Asia contract price failed to settle at the end of April. The PX ACP, negotiated monthly between four PX producers and five PTA ...
Tags: PTA, PX Feedstock, ACP
MHI to collaborate with Chengxi Shipyard (Xinrong) of China in retrofitting work of ballast water treatment systems Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Chengxi Shipyard (Xinrong) Co., Ltd. in China have ...
A tanker carrying around 10,000 mt (12,680 cu m) of ethanol loading in the west coast of Central America is due for arrival in the European ports of Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp by late May, according to a shipping report by broker SPI ...
Tags: Ethanol Shipment, Chemicals
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed in principle to the construction of a huge refinery and petrochemical complex by Thailand's PTT in the central Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh, a senior regional politician said Sunday. ...
Tags: PTT Vietnam, PTT
State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) signed a joint venture agreement Sunday with France's Total and Japan's Idemitsu, Cosmo Oil, Marubeni and Mitsui for a new condensate refinery to be built in Qatar at Ras Laffan Industrial City. Under the ...
Tags: Qatar Petroleum, Joint Venture
A purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant operated by Mitsui Chemicals is presently operating at reduced capacity. “The PTA plant located at Iwakuni in Japan is currently running at 75% capacity rate, due to reduced demand for ...
Tags: PTA Plant, Mitsui Operating
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Toshikazu Tanaka, President& CEO) announced commencement of commercial operations at the LOTTE MITSUI CHEMICALS, Inc. (Dong-Hee Yim, President) polypropylene catalyst plant in Yeosu, Korea on April 1. The plant is ...
Russia-based Severstal, one of the world’s leading steel and steel-related mining companies, has stated that it has secured a contract to supply automotive sheets to Renault-Nissan Alliance projects in Russia. The contract runs ...
Tags: Automotive Sheets, Renault-Nissan, Mineral
Myanmar is set to resume the export of rice to Japan in May, 45-years after the restrictions were established. This development is expected to strengthen the trade relations between the two countries. The export of the first shipment of ...
Tags: rice exports, rice, agriculture
Russia should maintain Gazprom's monopoly on exports of Russian gas to Europe but allow other companies to export LNG to rapidly growing markets of the Asia-Pacific region, energy minister Alexander Novak said Saturday. As Gazprom has the ...
Tags: LNG exports, Gazprom, gas