US-based INX International Ink introduces new AquaTech ION Label ink systems into the market. AquaTech ION Label ink systems offers performance with press stability for better printability at a wide range of press speeds. ION-P series ...
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M&G Group of the US has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with China's Sinopec Engineering to build a polyethylene terephthalate and purified terephthalic acid plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, the company said in a ...
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German chemicals company Evonik said Friday it will be expanding output of C4-based products, including butadiene, methyl tertiary butyl ether and 1-butene, at its Antwerp, Belgium and Marl, Germany, sites. Butadiene production in ...
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Prices for polyethylene terephthalate look set to climb over the coming weeks and months, as producers struggle to achieve acceptable margins while feedstock prices increase. So far this year, the European spot price assessment has ...
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Westlake Chemical Corporation's previously announced expansion of the Petro 2 ethylene unit at its complex in Lake Charles, LA has begun. This expansion will be completed in conjunction with a planned maintenance turnaround and will ...
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Levi Strauss&Co.,San Francisco,has introduced Levi's®WasteLess™,a collection of denim jeans and trucker jackets made using materials derived from post-consumer recycled(PCR)polyethylene terephthalate bottles and food trays.The ...
Aramco Far East (Beijing) Business Services, or Aramco Asia, has started offering polyolefins produced by Fujian Refining and Petrochemical in China effective January 1, its parent Saudi Aramco said late Monday. Aramco Asia will ...
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Iran has decided to keep its export ban on polymers like acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, general purpose polystyrene, high impact polystyrene, polypropylene, polycarbonates and epoxy resins despite having lifted a ban on exports of other ...
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Tehran Times reported that Iran inaugurated a large petrochemical complex, with a projected annual output of 300,000 tonnes of high density polyethylene, in the western province of Kermanshah on Tuesday. The report said that the ...
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Fueled by cheap natural gas liquids from the Eagle Ford Shale -- primarily ethane -- Texas' petrochemical industry will export 33% more ethylene and more finished plastics overseas by 2017, a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ...
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Indorama Ventures PCL, Thailand, plans to expand its annual U.S. polyethylene terephthalate (PET) production capacity by 540,000 metric tons at an undisclosed brownfield location. The expansion is expected to be completed in the fourth ...
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ExxonMobil has commenced startup operations at one of the world’s largest ethylene steam crackers, the centerpiece of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project at its Singapore petrochemical complex. The expansion, ...
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Borealis said Friday it will raise all polyolefin prices for January 2013. Polyethylene prices will increase by Eur100/mt while prices for polypropylene will increase by Eur75/mt. "The decision to increase prices is based on the ...
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Supplier of monolayer, coextruded, and barrier films for flexible packaging NEX Performance Films has merged with Charter Films, a provider of polyethylene film for food packaging, tag & label, surface protection, have agreed to merge their ...
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Braskem Idesa has announced the successful signing of key documents for securing US$ 3.2 billion financing for developing the Ethylene XXI project, a petrochemical complex for the production of ethylene and polyethylene in the state of ...
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