Shell Chemicals is more than likely to re-enter the polyethylene market with its new proposed petrochemical complex in Pennsylvania, but it would not be a core business for the company, Executive Vice President of Shell Chemicals Graham ...
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LyondellBasell executives, led by CEO Jim Gallogly, told participants at the company's Investor Day in New York how LyondellBasell is preparing to build upon its record 2012 performance which included $5.8 billion of EBITDA and earnings of ...
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The Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) bestowed its Product of the Year Award on Graphic Packaging International, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, for a microwaveable bacon package for Embotits Espina, a ...
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South Korea's spot supply of solvent-grade mixed xylenes for April loading will likely halve from its typical volume because of lower yields from naphtha-fed steam crackers' use of butane in its feedstock mix, an industry source said ...
Netherlands-based petrochemicals company LyondellBassell expects to eliminate imported naphtha from its US feedstock mix within the next few years, a company executive said Wednesday. Speaking at the IHS CERAWeek conference in ...
The average price of butadiene in February rose 14% month on month to $2,007.50/mt FOB Korea amid tight availability and new downstream plants coming online. The first of about four butadiene rubber plants starting up in 2013 was ...
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Mediaplanet Publishing today released a special report entitled, The Organic Movement. The publication will be distributed as a special 12 page section within the Washington Post and will also be distributed at numerous industry events and ...
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US snack manufacturer Snyder's-Lance is to close its bakery facility in Ontario as part of a company-wide review. In a statement yesterday (25 February), the firm said its plant in Cambridge will close on 17 May. The company did not say ...
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Romania-based pasta products and cheese crackers manufacturer Pangram has unveiled a new packaging for its nuts and seeds brand ubernuts, which has been developed by brand strategy and design firm Brandient.Brandient stated that the ...
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Brand strategy and design company Brandient has created new packaging for Romania-based producer and distributor of pasta products and cheese crackers Pangram’s übernuts brand. According to Brandient, the new strategy has been ...
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Asian butadiene prices hit a more than six month high Monday on tight availability amid the startup of new synthetic rubber plants in China and higher naphtha feedstock costs. Butadiene prices surged 44% from a 2012 low of $1,455/mt FOB ...
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Styrene's premium to its feedstock benzene rose to its highest in four months in the Northwest European market, Platts data showed. The premium was assessed at $346/mt at Friday's close, mainly due to falling benzene prices. The premium ...
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US food group Campbell Soup Co. has recorded a drop in first-half profits as costs related to its acquisition of Bolthouse Farms hit earnings. Earnings in the six months ended 27 January fell to US$430m, a 7.3% decline on last year, the ...
US-based food company Kellogg has reported that its net income increased by 10.9% to $961m for the full-year 2012, compared to $866m in 2011. For the year ended 29 December 2012, the company posted 7.6% increase in net sales to $14.19bn, ...
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Kellogg has added to its frozen food line in the US with the launch of products into its Special K, Eggo and MorningStar Farms ranges. For the Special K brand, Kellogg has introduced Flatbread Breakfast Sandwiches in three variants: ...
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