Ethylene spot prices in Northwest Europe increased marginally week on week to Eur885/mt ($1,214/mt) FD NWE Friday on the back of a fall in steam cracker utilization rates, which helped managed the oversupply in ethylene, sources said. ...
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Hess Corp. and North Dakota officials gathered Monday to mark the recent completion of an expansion of the company's natural gas processing plant that will help cut the amount of gas production wasted through flaring and boost NGL ...
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BASF has doubled capacity of its non-phthalate plasticizer Hexamoll DINCH from 100,000 metric tons to 200,000 metric tons per year at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. With a second Hexamoll DINCH plant BASF will satisfy growing customer ...
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Strong regional multi-stakeholder partnerships will be the key for a dynamic, flexible and growth-driven petrochemicals industry, said industry experts at the sixth Supply Chain conference, organized by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals ...
Tags: Petrochem, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals, and the former textile, paper and emulsions businesses of Clariant, is looking to secure a home-win at this year's Denim by Premiere Vision (DPV) in Barcelona with its amazing new ...
Tags: Textile, Jeans, Appare, Dazzling Color
AkzoNobel's new €80 million Imperatriz Chemical Island in Brazil is now operational and has started supplying the Suzano Maranhão Pulp Mill in northern Brazil. Operated by the company's Pulp and Performance Chemicals business, ...
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Sudarshan has announced that William L. Baker will assume responsibility for their North American Operations for the Industrial Division, responsible for Pigments and Effect Pigments in the coatings, inks and plastics markets. This role ...
Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET), one of the world's largest producers of titanium parts for jet engines, has agreed to pay a record $13.75 million civil penalty and perform an extensive investigation and cleanup of potential ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Service, Energy
The packaging of food items is one of the key concerns for Europeans, according to an independent research commissioned by FEVE (The European Container Glass Federation). The research was carried out by an independent research agency, ...
Tags: Food Packaging, food items
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) published the fourteenth edition of the AAFA Restricted Substances List (RSL), covering apparel, footwear, travel goods, home textiles, and other fashion accessories. The updated RSL ...
Genomatica has been selected as the winner of the 2014 Bioeconomy Leadership Award. The Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (SBFC) chose Genomatica as the company that has significantly advanced the development of a renewable ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2013. Fourth Quarter 2013 Highlights -Total revenues increased 11% to $1.20 billion primarily reflecting an increase in oilfield, ...
Tags: oilfield, specialty epoxy
This cocoa paper is an innovation which has already won over the chocolate and chocolate packaging industries! Cocoa bean husks are usually waste products in chocolate production but James Cropper has used them to make paper. The husks ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, cocoa paper, chocolate packaging
Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET), one of the world's largest producers of titanium parts for jet engines, has agreed to pay a record $13.75 million civil penalty and perform an extensive investigation and cleanup of potential ...
Tags: Titanium, EPA, Certification, Service
Dubai International Capital (DIC) has signed a $1.7bn (£1bn) agreement for the sale of Germany-based packaging group Mauser to private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) Mauser, global producer of rigid industrial packaging ...