Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and Pioneer Corporation announced that MCC and Pioneer have successfully developed the first bluelight-less OLED lighting module made with a wet coating process for the light-emitting layer, and will begin ...
BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) inaugurated their world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, Maoming, China. The plant will be run by BASF MPCC Company Limited (BMC), which ...
Tags: BASF, SINOPEC, phthalate plasticizers
For the first quarter ended March 31, 2105, NYSE listed Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP) reported net income of $8.5 million, or $0.31 per limited partner unit. In a press release, WLKP said it achieved a MLP distributable cash flow ...
Tags: ethylene production, ethylene
The American Coatings Association (ACA) presented its CoatingsTech Mattiello Memorial Lecture Award to Dr. Danny C. Rich, manager of Sun Chemical Corporation’s Color Research Laboratory. Rich delivered the Mattiello Memorial Lecture, ...
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RadTech, the non-profit trade association for UV+EB technologies, has announced its board of directors for 2015. Peter Weissman of Quaker Chemical Corp. has assumed the RadTech presidency while Lisa Fine of Joules Angstrom UV Printing ...
PT Hutchins, a KODA Distribution Group company, has announced the hiring of a new VP of Sales and the creation of a new, strategic technical manager position. J. Patrick Lancaster has been hired as the new VP of Sales for PT Hutchins. ...
Tags: management experience, industry knowledge, Construction
Westlake Chemical Corporation has awarded a contract to Technip to provide detailed engineering and procurement services to expand the recovery section of Westlake’s Petro 1 ethylene plant in Sulphur, Louisiana, USA. A statement ...
Westlake Chemical Partners LP, a Westlake company, announced the commencement of its initial public offering of 11,250,000 common units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership, at an anticipated initial public offering ...
For the second quarter of 2014, US-based Quaker Chemical Corporation posted a modest 3.5% increase in net sales to $191.3 million against $184.8 million in the second quarter of 2013. Quaker's adjusted EBITDA rose 6% to around $25.8 ...
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Quaker Chemical Corporation announced a 3% increase in net sales of $181.7 million for the first quarter of 2014 compared to the first quarter of 2013 net sales of $176.2 million. Foreign exchange rate translation negatively impacted net ...
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The spread between the spot prices for acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer in Europe surged to an all-time high of Eur1,040/mt ($1,444/mt) Thursday, as VAM prices soared and feedstock AA prices remained stable. In December last year, the ...
China would see a greater shortage of paraxylene (PX) supply in 2014, says a latest report prepared by the economics and technological research institute under the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), according to an article ...
Tags: Px Shortage, Px
BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) broke ground today on the construction of its world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, Maoming, China. At start-up in 2015, the plant, which ...
The CO2 EOR market is a well established sector of the oil and gas industry in the United States with the first commercial projects dating back to the early 1970s. The key enabler of this success has been the availability of a large volume ...
Tags: CO2, Oil Recovery
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Dec. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CB&I (NYSE: CBI) announced today it has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $1 billion by Ingleside Ethylene LLC, a joint venture between Occidental Chemical Corporation ...