Invista Performance Technologies (IPT), the PTA industry’s licensor has launched an upgraded platform that offers licensees significant production efficiencies. Invista’s latest technology offering called P8 delivers ...
India’s Reliance Industries (RIL) will be commissioning a Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plant and a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) resin plant at Dahej in the western state of Gujarat. The PET plant that has been built with ...
Tags: India's Reliance Industries, Purified Terephthalic Acid
One of the biggest global PTA producers, BP said it plans to invest over $200 million to upgrade its PTA plants at Cooper River, South Carolina and Geel, Belgium. “Once completed, the investments will position these assets amongst ...
The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes on an FOB Korea basis narrowed $2/mt from Tuesday to a more than three-year low of $154.50/mt Wednesday, with MX staying relatively supported while PX and downstream ...
Chinese purified terephthalic acid producers BP and Hengli have deferred the startup of their new PTA plants to 2015 from the fourth quarter this year, amid negative PTA margins, sources close to the company said Friday. The startup of BP ...
Technip announces the extension of its long-standing agreement with BP in the purified terephthalic acid (PTA)(1) domain. Technip will now also become the exclusive provider of the ISBL (Inside Battery Limit) FEED (front-end engineering and ...
Technip announces the extension of its long-standing agreement with BP in the purified terephthalic acid (PTA) domain. Technip will now also become the exclusive provider of the ISBL (Inside Battery Limit) FEED (front-end engineering and ...
Tags: Technip, BP, PTA, third-party licensing
The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be the largest market in the world for Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) by 2020, thanks to the region’s improving living standards, cross-industry usage of PTA products and expanding ...
Tags: PTA Demand, textile
Negotiations for the July Asian Contract Price for paraxylene have drawn buyers to make a counterbid of $1,300/mt CFR on Wednesday, almost $200/mt lower than sellers' nominations, sources close to the negotiations said. There are four ACP ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Polyester
British multinational oil and gas company BP and its partner Zhuhai Port have received final approval from the Chinese Government for the construction of a third purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant, at Zhuhai, Guangdong. PTA is a key ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, gas
M&G Group has signed a licensee agreement with Mexican petrochemical company Alpek for IntegRex PTA technology, which will be used in its Corpus Christi PTA-PET plant construction project in the US. M&G previously announced the ...
HOUSTON — January 11, 2013 — The M&G Group ("M&G"), one of the three leading producers in the Americas of PET for packaging applications, announced today that it has signed a US$ 1 billion engineering, procurement and ...
Tags: M&G, Sinopec Engineering, Textile
Italian PET producer, M&G Group has signed a $1bn engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Sinopec Engineering for PET plant construction in Corpus Christi, Texas, US. The single line PET plant is said to have a ...
Tags: M&G Group, EPC contract, Sinopec Engineering
Two new purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants have become operational in China, which has led to a rise in demand and consequently an increase in imports of paraxylene (PX) in September 2012. A new plant with capacity to produce 1.5 ...
Tags: PX imports, purified terephthalic acid, paraxylene, PX
UK-based BP and JBF Petrochemicals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JBF Industries have signed an agreement for licensing BP’s purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology to be used in the 1.25mt per annum plant in Mangalore, India. ...
Tags: BP, JBF Petrochemicals, purified terephthalic acid technology