An estimated 1,000 pounds of ethylene was released Friday at Dow's Freeport, Texas, site, the company said in a filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The release occurred when workers were performing maintenance on ...
Tags: Texas Polyethylene, Chemicals
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that several contracts and order implementations have been awarded through its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A., KT - Kinetics Technology S.p.A. and Stamicarbon BV, for a total amount of approximately €118 ...
Tags: oil, gas, petrochemical, fertilizer
Global demand for naphtha will expand faster than any other light products through 2020, spurred by rising needs of the petrochemical industry in Asia, as per the latest report by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). ...
Tags: naphtha, light products
Recently, Mr. Sepahdar Ansari Nik, the managing director of Jam petrochemical complex, presented a comprehensive activity report of the first six months of the year 2013. Having compared Jam petrochemical complex performance in production ...
Tags: Ethylene, Jam Petrochemical
Burckhardt Compression has been awarded an order from JiangSu Sailboat Petrochemical Co., Ltd. to deliver two Hyper Compressors as Secondary Compressors and two Process Gas Compressors as Booster/Primary Compressors for their LDPE-EVA plant ...
Westlake Chemical Corporation reported record quarterly net income of $170.3 million, or $2.54 per diluted share, on net sales of $1,004.2 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. This represents an increase in net income of ...
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Sinopec Corp has won initial approval from China's top economic planner for a plan to build a US$10 billion refinery and petrochemical complex in Shanghai, two company officials said. China, the world's largest net importer of oil, is ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Hot Melt Glues are usually used in industrial applications as the use of Volatile organic compounds are either eliminated or reduced and the curing/drying time considerably shortened. These have a very high shelf life and hence can be ...
Anterra Capital has invested in food preservation company in the UK, Food Freshness Technology (FFT) to improve the food and agriculture supply chain. The investment will be used for FFT's It'sFresh! ethylene-absorbing technology, which ...
LyondellBasell Industries announced earnings from continuing operations for the third quarter 2013 of $1.51 diluted earnings per share or $854 million. Third quarter 2013 EBITDA was $1,531 million. Third-Quarter 2013 Highlights - ...
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Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp. is expected to continue using LPG as alternative feedstock at its steam crackers until after November when it will switch to fully using naphtha, an industry source said Friday. The plan comes as prices ...
Tags: Steam Cracker, Formosa
The production margins for styrene monomer in Asia have shrunk to its lowest level in over six months as SM prices have tumbled globally since early September, Platts data shows. The SM price in Asia fell $34.50/mt, or 2.1%, day on day ...
Industrial Production Operation in September 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China In September 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 10.2 percent year-on-year (the following ...
In the first three quarters of 2013, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of making progress while ensuring the stability, stabilized the macro-economic policies, made innovation on the ...
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Idemitsu Kosan would soon restart its olefins conversion unit (OCU) at its Chiba refinery, which was shutdown due to a fire incident earlier this week. “The fire occurred at the refinery on the morning of October 16, 2013,” ...