JGC Corporation announced that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International Co. Ltd. has been awarded a contract for expansion of ethylene manufacturing facilities for the Rabigh phase II project. The contract was ...
Tags: ethylene, ethylene manufacturing facilities, petrochemicals
PTT Global Chemical Limited, Thailand's largest and Asia’s leading integrated petrochemical company, has announced that its mono ethylene glycol (MEG) plant at Map Ta Phut in Mueang Rayong District would commence operations next ...
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New Zealand (NZ)-based Future Fresh has redesigned ExtraFresh packs in a bid to retain freshness for long. To develop a cost effective and environmentally responsible solution to ethylene control for household consumers, the team at ...
Westlake Chemical Corporation announced that it will perform planned maintenance and an expansion of the Petro 2 ethylene unit at its complex in Lake Charles, LA in the first quarter of 2013. This expansion will increase ethane-based ...
Tags: ethylene unit, ethylene, styrene, propylene, caustic
Japan’s imports of naphtha, a key raw material for production of ethylene used in the textile industry, grew by 5.3 percent month-on-month in October to 1.183 million tons, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Economy, ...
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Hengli Petrochemical Industrial Park, which mainly engages in the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), used extensively in the production of textiles, has begun operations at its plant in Dalian located in Northeast China’s ...
Georgia Gulf Corporation (GGC), a leading North American manufacturer and international marketer of commodity chemicals as well as polymers, is considering buying a stake in any US-based ethylene plant to meet its raw material requirements. ...
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EQUATE Petrochemical Company said that the global petrochemical industry was facing serious global challenges. Delivering the keynote address at PETCHEM Arabia in Bahrain, EQUATE President & CEO Mohammad Husain said, “The challenges ...
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The ExxonMobil Chemical Plant has warned the communities of Mossmorran in the United Kingdom about the intermittent flaring at the Fife Ethylene Plant. The plant was shutdown for maintenance work and it has restarted again. “As ...
Paraxylene (PX) prices went down in the Asian market. In S E Asian region, PX prices declined in the range of US$ 1515/ton to US$ 1520/ton. In F E Asian market, PX prices were offered at US$ 1500/ton. PX imported from Taiwanese market ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,17 commodities increased in prices, 26 fell and 57 remained unchanged on 28/11/2012.The largest rises were Soybean meal (1.29%),Nickel (0.90%),Benzene (0.40%),while the ...
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Saudi Basic Industries Corporation plans seriously to expand its investments in China through the implementation of new expansion at the JV project, (SABIC Sinopec), in Tianjin owned equally between the two sides. Mr Mohamed Al Mady vice ...
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Reportedly, Iran's West Ethylene Pipeline, located on the shore of the Persian Gulf, to Kermanshah in the west is about to be accomplished and will commence in December after essential tests being implemented. The pipeline project has ...
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced the successful start-up of the 800Kt/a ethylene unit at Fushun Petrochemical, all the eight production units of the 1Mt/a ethylene capacity expansion project operated together and turned ...
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Williams Partners and Williams announced an agreement for Williams Partners to acquire Williams'approximately 83-percent undivided interest in the Geismar olefins production facility,as well as Williams'refinery-grade propylene splitter ...