The signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Korea is expected to result in a structural change in trade patterns between the two counties. The FTA and its consequences thus offer a rare moment for Taiwan to review its ...
Tags: free trade agreement, tariff rates
The Board of Directors of Exxon Mobil Corporation, one of the world’s leading petrochemical companies, has appointed Neil Chapman as the new vice president of the company, effective Jan. 1, 2015, replacing Stephen D. Pryor, who has ...
The main business revenue of China's petrochemical industry will hit 14.5 trillion yuan (2.36 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2014, according to data released by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF) on Wednesday. CPCIF ...
Tesla Nanocoatings is expanding production of its Teslan brand of nanocoatings, a corrosion-resistant coating for structural steel, produced with SMW Specialty Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes developed by SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT). ...
Dow Chemical, which wants to hive off its various stakes in Kuwait’s chemical and petrochemical sectors, will offer its shares to Kuwaiti citizens as an initial public offering (IPO). Kuwait's state news agency KUNA quoted Public ...
Tags: petrochemical sectors, Dow Chemical, Textile
“Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) chemical and petrochemical producers have reduced energy consumption per ton by 8% over the last two years through technical renovations,” says a sustainability report. According to the Gulf ...
In the third quarter ending September 30, 2014, higher sales volume of high margin ethane-based products, helped net profit at Petronas Chemicals climb 4.1 percent, from a year ago quarter. Net profit in the third quarter of 2014 rose to ...
A new polypropylene plant will come up at IndianOil’s Paradip Refinery Project complex at Paradip in India’s eastern coastal state of Odisha. Foundation for the Rs 3150 crore polypropylene plant was laid by Minister of State ...
Tags: polypropylene plant, catalyst, Textile
Dow Chemical said it will reconfigure and reduce its equity base in the MEGlobal and Greater Equate joint ventures, including Kuwait Olefins Company (TKOC) and Kuwait Styrene Company (TKSC). This reduction, Dow said, will be done through ...
Tags: petrochemical products, Qurain Petrochemical Industries, Textile
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce quoted the report released by Yonhap on Nov.2 as saying, Korea exports to China were $13.634 billion, up 3.7%. The exports keeps growing for 2 months. Intermediate goods leads the exports growth. Computer ...
Tags: Intermediate goods, petrochemical
Southeast Asia has become a hotbed of activity in the oleochemicals production space. This is due to a combination of factors: the abundant availability of raw materials, escalating consumer preference for vegetable-based products, and low ...
A combination of low inventories and refinery maintenance could be spurring some Chinese state-owned companies to seek gasoil imports for the fourth quarter, sources said this week. Though market sources said that state-owned trader ...
Tags: Gasoil, sulfur gasoil, crude oil
GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth more than RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 Mn Tons. The study finds that growth in 2013 was only 2.8 percent, ...
Tags: Domestic Market, China, Decoration
The Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC), the leading producer of methanol in Qatar, is set to organize the first-ever Middle East Methanol Forum on the 26th of November, 2014 at Sharq Village and Spa, in Doha. QAFAC will conduct the ...
Tags: Methanol, Fuel Additives
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its cleanup plan to address contaminated groundwater and soil at the Mattiace Petrochemical Co., Inc. Superfund site in Glen Cove, New York. The groundwater and soil are contaminated ...
Tags: contaminated groundwater, EPA