Iranian experts have acquired the necessary know-how to produce 40 petrochemical products, the Petrochemical Research and Technology Company (PRTC) has announced. For the industrial and economic development of Iran, the Government has ...
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Assam Petrochemicals hopes to start its new acetic acid plant towards the end of 2015. “The start-up of plant has been postponed due to some pending regulatory issues. It was originally scheduled to start towards end-2014,” ...
Netherlands-based petrochemicals company LyondellBassell expects to eliminate imported naphtha from its US feedstock mix within the next few years, a company executive said Wednesday. Speaking at the IHS CERAWeek conference in ...
The petrochemical production capacity of Iran is likely to reach 100 million tons by 2015, Mr. Abdolhossein Bayat, an Iranian Deputy Oil Minister, has said. Mr. Bayat, who is also the managing director of National Petrochemical Company ...
Sibur has undertaken construction of Tobolsk-Polymer plant, a large scale world-class petrochemicals complex located in Tobolsk at the same production site as the Group’s flagship GFU. The complex will apply the propane ...
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Spot prices for barge lots of butane loading in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp area have gained support from petrochemical demand, according to industry sources. Surplus butane from ARA refineries can be absorbed into the MTBE, gasoline ...
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The Northwest European contract price for March-delivered butadiene was fully settled Tuesday at Eur1,415/mt FD NWE ($1,880/mt FD), following confirmation from two producers and two consumers involved in the negotiations. The increase ...
The Pigments division of Huntsman Corporation announced global price increases for all its titanium dioxide pigments. The following increases are effective 15 March, 2013 or as contracts allow: -Europe: €230 (Euros) per tonne ...
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The spread between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene widened in Asia to a 15-month high of $331.50/mt Monday, as SM prices are supported by a series of plant turnarounds while benzene was on a downtrend along with US prices, ...
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India's largest phthalic anhydride producer, IG Petrochemicals, now plans to complete the expansion of its PA plant at Taloja by mid-2013, a year later than initially scheduled, a company source said Monday. The reason for the delay is ...
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Pittsburgh-based safety equipment manufacturer MSA, the largest producer of industrial hard hats in North America and other regions, continually looks for ways to innovate and improve a product worn every day by construction workers, ...
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a huge petrochemical industry, but it has not translated into growth of downstream textile industry in the country. By 2015, the overall output of Saudi petrochemical industry is likely to cross 80 ...
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The Paint Research Association (PRA) has developed a food packaging coating product which can replace existing packaging coatings based on petrochemicals that are harmful for the environment. The new eco-friendly food packaging coating ...
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Iran has floated a proposal to constitute a forum of petrochemical exporting countries, and the Iranian Government is now pursuing talks on the issue with several nations, including neighbouring countries, National Petrochemical Company ...
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UK-based Paint Research Association (PRA) has developed an eco-friendly food packaging coating product, known as PlantPack, which can be an alternative to coatings based on petrochemicals. PlantPack, which has been developed from seaweed ...
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