Polish chemical producer Synthos has begun an emergency shutdown of all units at its petrochemical complex in Kralupy, Czech Republic due to extreme flooding by the Vltava river, a company source said Monday. "We are closing production of ...
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The eight developing countries that constitute the D-8 group can enhance cooperation in petrochemical sector by investing their surplus funds in projects of other member countries, Abdolhosain Bayat, Managing Director of Iran’s ...
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South Korea's petrochemicals maker Korea Petrochemical Industry Company said Thursday its first-quarter net profit rose 32.7% year on year to Won 6.9 billion ($6.1 million), from Won 5.2 billion a year earlier. Operating profit also ...
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The US on Friday identified eight petrochemical companies it says are owned or controlled by the government of Iran and are therefore subject to sanctions. The US State Department also sanctioned two companies "for knowingly engaging in a ...
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ExxonMobil’s Singapore Chemical Plant is now producing ethylene from the facility’s second world-scale steam cracker. The expansion is integrated with the existing petrochemical plant. Over the next few weeks, the ...
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Titanium is highly corrosive element with several benefits that makes it perfect element to produce mill products like bolts, pipes, sheet, fasteners and other products. It is symbolized by Ti in chemistry and has atomic weight of 22. It is ...
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited has registered gross sales of Rs. 2, 15,675 crores for the year 2012-13 as against Rs. 1, 88,131 crores in the previous year representing an increase of over 14.6 %. The sales of petroleum products ...
Heartened by a brief mention of liquefied natural gas exports by President Barack Obama, the new head of the US trade group for shale gas producers said Thursday he thought Obama should hasten a permitting process that has issued only two ...
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Argentina's production of polymer and synthetic rubber fell 14.7% in April compared with the year-earlier period but was 4.1% higher than March, the government statistics office, Indec, said Thursday. Production of these petrochemicals in ...
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Hengyi Petrochemical Co.,Ltd announces that the Ministry of Environmental Protection has approved Hainan Yisheng Petrochemical, a joint-stock unit, to build a 2.1 million-ton PTA project in the Yangpu Economic Development Zone, Hainan ...
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French oil and gas producer Total SA expects to launch more cooperations in the Chinese mainland. It launched Journey of Harmonious Energy, a national touring energy science exhibition, in Tianjin, a port city in north China, on May 22 ...
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PPG Industries has started manufacturing protective and marine coatings (PMC) at the company’s facility in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland. The facility, which previously produced architectural coatings and was part of PPG’s ...
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The Asia Contract Price for paraxylene is likely to reach a settlement for June, after no conclusion for May, as a firmer purified terephthalic acid production margin has narrowed the gap between buyers and sellers, sources close to the ...
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The newly appointed managing director of Kuwait's Petrochemical Industry Company), which is at the center of a political crisis over a $2.2 billion compensation payment to Dow Chemical, has said that implementation of a number of planned ...
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The five new petrochemical projects that started operations since start of the current Iranian calendar year on March 21, 2013, are expected to boost the country’s petrochemical revenues by US$ 2 billion, National Petrochemical ...
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