Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation is planning to soon restart its Kashima, Japan-based No. 2 naphtha cracker following maintenance turnaround. “The cracker is planned to be restarted on October 17, 2013,” a company official ...
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Ethylene glycol manufacturer MEGlobal has kept its Asian Contract Price (ACP) for monoethylene glycol (MEG) for November 2013 unchanged at October contract prices. The company has announced its Asian contract price for MEG at US$ ...
Celanese, a global technology and specialty materials company, is simplifying its brand architecture to capture in a single brand the full suite of Celanese technology, resources, products and solutions. This change moves Celanese toward ...
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Bioplastics are emerging as viable alternatives to petroleum-based polymers. This quiet revolution goes well beyond the standard drivers for sustainably sourced and/or compostable materials. I attended the 2013 BioPlastek conference in San ...
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AkzoNobel has further extended its Ningbo multisite in China with the completion of a new Bermocoll cellulose derivatives production plant. The new site is now serving the growing demand from customers throughout the region. Based on a ...
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Novomer Inc., a sustainable materials company pioneering a family of high-performance polymers and other chemicals from renewable feedstocks such as carbon dioxide (CO2), recently announced a major new application of its catalytic ...
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Dow Chemical Companywill increase its polyol and copolymer capacity at its Freeport, Texas facilities as a result of debottlenecking. "Dow is constantly evolving our technologies to help our customers grow," said Mark Bassett, global ...
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The Mexican state of Veracruz would receive investments of over US$ 5 billion in the coming months for the development of the petrochemical cluster in the south of the state, announced Veracruz’s Governor Javier Duarte De Ocha, during ...
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Odfjell orders four gas carriers with options for additional vessels Odfjell signed shipbuilding contracts with Nantong Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co., Ltd for construction of four LPG/Ethylene gas carriers of 17,000 cbm. During ...
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As customer needs diversify - and the complexity of their solutions increase - identifying the right partners and the right solutions can be the difference between product success or failure. Recognizing this need, Celanese, a global ...
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The production of ethylene by China’s petrochemical industry increased by 5.6 percent year-on-year to 10.53 million tons during the first eight months of the current year, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) data ...
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Narrowing propane price spreads between the US and international markets are poised to shrink further as terminal developers, such as Enterprise Products Partners, advance plans to increase the nation's liquefied petroleum gas export ...
China's petrochemical industry gained CNY 6.6 trillion main business incomes and CNY 221 billion profits in the first seven months, up 9.9% and 43% year on year. Crude oil China processed in the first eight months was 317.16 million tons, ...
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The main business income of China's petrochemical industry grew 9.9 percent to 6.60 trillion yuan ($1.07 trillion) in the first seven months of 2013, said the country's top economic planner on Wednesday. The industry's net profit totaled ...
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Mitsui Chemicals had shut a naphtha cracker located in Osaka, Japan for maintenance turnaround on September 19, 2013, and the plant is likely to restart operations in the beginning of October 2013. “The naphtha cracker has ...
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