NWE ethylene spot prices rose Eur15/mt on the week Thursday to Eur1,020-1,025/mt ($1,314-1,320) FD NWE, driven by better-than-expected offtake from primary derivative polyethylene in July. On Friday, a buyer and seller confirmed a 2,000 ...
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Hempel, one of the world’s largest independent suppliers of decorative, marine and protective coatings, has announced the launch of a new range of intumescent coatings for passive fire protection of steel structures in the United Arab ...
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Styrolution Europe has raised operating rates at its acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene plant at Antwerp, Belgium to 80-85% capacity in June, a company source said Wednesday. The 250,000 mt/year ABS unit was running at 70-75% capacity in ...
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Northwest European acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene and polystyrene producers are raising their competitiveness in order to retain market share in the fast growing Turkish market, market sources said this week. European producers are ...
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The US spot ethylene market was at a standstill Thursday on news of an explosion and fire at Williams' olefins complex in Louisiana that killed one person earlier in the day, market sources said. Sellers pulled all material Thursday ...
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Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) has extended its work on double-gated nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (DG-HEMTs) [Guohao Yu et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
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Styrolution Europe has nominated a Eur25/mt increase in its polystyrene contract price for June from May, the company said Tuesday. The company did not provide an outright value for its contracts but added that the premium of its high ...
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Astellas Pharma and Zeria Pharmaceutical are set to launch Acofide Tablets 100mg (acotiamide hydrochloride hydrate) in Japan on 6 June for treating functional dyspepsia (FD). The world's first FD treatment, Acofide demonstrated efficacy ...
CEA-Leti will present recent advances and a preview of future developments in micro- and nanotechnologies, followed by workshops on key technical fields, during Leti Innovation Days, June 25-28, on the MINATEC campus. The gathering ...
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The US styrene to benzene spread remained above $300/mt for much of the last week, with the spread at $303.66/mt Monday, according to Platts data. US spot styrene lowered 0.05 cent/lb ($1.10/mt) day on day to a Monday assessment at 72.50 ...
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LUXeXceL Group, the inventor of the proprietary Printoptical Technology, announced today the completion of the A-round by a Dutch Venture Capital company Chrysalix SET and the US based Turnstone Capital Management. The proceeds of this ...
An initial European monoethylene glycol May contract price was settled lower by Eur55/mt ($71/mt) to Eur965/mt FD NWE Thursday, industry sources said. The parties involved could not be immediately confirmed. The decrease was driven by ...
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The European monoethylene glycol May contract price was fully settled Thursday Eur965/mt ($1,252/mt) FD NWE, industry sources said Friday. It represents a fall of Eur55/mt from April The initial settlement was between Shell as a seller ...
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Plastics and rubber producer Styron Europe said Friday that it plans to roll over its monthly price for styrene butadiene latex in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India in June, in a bid to widen profit margins amid falling feedstock ...
US ethylene margins climbed for the week as production issues over the weekend pushed spot markets higher Monday. Power outages were reported at Flint Hills Resources in Port Arthur, Texas, and at Chevron Phillips Chemicals' Sweeny ...
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