Work in respect of West Ethylene Pipeline of Iran, stretching from Assalouyeh in the south to Kermanshah in the west is close to completion, following which the line would be commissioned next month, Ali-Mohammad Bassaqzadeh, a National ...
Tags: West Ethylene Pipeline, Assalouyeh, Kermanshah, NIPC
Equate Petrochemical Company announced that it has restarted the 550,000 metric tons annually (MTA) Ethylene Glycol (EG) unit. An Equate officials said, "The unit was successfully restarted after being shutdown last July following a fire ...
Tags: Ethylene Glycol, petrochemical, Equate Petrochemical Company, PIC, BPC
It'sFresh! and fruit supplier and distributor Worldwide Fruit (WFL) have announced that they're rolling out in ready-to-eat (RTE) pears for Marks & Spencer across the UK. Said to be the first-ever utilization in pears of the innovative ...
Tags: packaging technology, packaging
A novel acrylic acid (AA)-allyloxy poly(ethylene glycol) polyglycerol carboxylate (APEG-PG-COOH) copolymer has been synthesised to control Ca3(PO4)2, CaCO3, and CaSO4 deposits in industrial recycling water systems. The material exhibited ...
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Even in the midst of rising demand from China's ethylene sector, naphtha's contribution to the sector's overall feedstock mix is expected to fall over the next three years, Shu Zhaoxia, Chief Analyst for Chemicals at state-owned refiner ...
Korea Petrochemical Company (KPIC) refuted reports in a section of the media about its naphtha cracker running at reduced capacity rates. Speaking to Fibre2fashion, a KPIC official said, "The naphtha cracker is currently operating at full ...
Tags: Capacity Rates, Korea, KPIC, naphtha cracker
Clariant, a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, announced to expand the production capacity for Houdry dehydrogenation catalysts. The expansion will be achieved by a low double-digit million Swiss francs investment at its current ...
Tags: Chemicals, Specialty Chemicals, dehydrogenation catalysts
After a delay of around 13 days, a naphtha cracker owned by Japan-based JX Nippon Oil & Energy which underwent a turnaround, has restarted. A JX Nippon company official informed fibre2fashion that the cracker which was shutdown for ...
Tags: JX Nippon, cracker, shutdown for maintenance, technical problems
Taipei,Oct.9,2012(CENS)--Formosa Plastics Group's steel business will start soon as its stainless steel plant in Fujian,China,will come online in the first quarter of 2013,earlier than expected,with 720,000 tonnes in annual output initially ...
In spite of various difficulties posed by several external factors, the Brahmaputra Cracker & Polymer Ltd's (BCPL) project, also called the Assam Gas Cracker Project, is heading in the right direction and 79.6 percent of the project work is ...
Tags: BCPL, the Assam Gas Cracker Project, petrochemical, ethylene, propylene
On October 5, the newly built 600kt/a ethylene unit at Daqing Petrochemical, a key part of the company's 1.2Mt/a ethylene expansion/upgrading project, turned out qualified products, indicating the successful industrialization of the ...
Tags: ethylene unit, Daqing Petrochemical, expansion/upgrading project
Technip in a JV with Odebrecht and ICA Fluor awarded large EPC contract by Braskem Idesa for the Ethylene XXI project Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. awarded to a joint venture formed by Odebrecht (40%), Technip (40%) and ICA Fluor ...
Tags: petrochemical, petrochemical complex, ethylene cracker, polyethylene
Eastman Chemical has begun shutting down its No.4 ethylene cracker at its Longview, Texas facility for planned maintenance, overhaul and repair operations. The planned turnaround at the around 270,000 tons per annum ethylene plant is ...
Tags: Eastman Chemical, ethylene, ethylene cracker, chemical
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that China's Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) Co. Ltd. has licensed Honeywell's UOP methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology to convert methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. Honeywell's ...
Global demand for emulsion polymers is forecast to rise 5.1 percent per year to 13.3 million metric tons(dry basis)in 2016 the Freedonia Group said.Advances will be fueled by increased production of water-based paint,coatings,and ...
Tags: Emulsion polymers, Demand, Rise, Benefit