US olefins producer Westlake Chemical has shut its Petro-2 steam cracker in Lake Charles, Louisiana, while it carries out expansion work, the company said Thursday. The expansion of the 565,000 mt/year cracker will be carried out in ...
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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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China's competition officials are still weighing Dole Food Co's deal to sell its global packaged food and Asian fresh businesses to Japan's Itochu Corp, forcing the two firms to delay completion of the sale. Dole had hoped to sign-off ...
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Westlake Chemical Corporation announced it is converting the feedstock for its Calvert City, Kentucky ethylene plant from propane to ethane along with increasing ethylene capacity from 450 million pounds per year to 630 million pounds per ...
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Overseas Food Distribution (OFD) has launched its Country Road Bulgarian Sheep Milk Feta Cheese at Costco stores in Southern California, US. The new product will be available at eight Southern California Costco locations which include: ...
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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 ...
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Westlake Chemical Corporation reported net income for the three months ended September 30, 2012 of $87.0 million, or $1.30 per diluted share, on sales of $821.2 million. This represents an increase in net income of $19.1 million from the ...
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New Buildings Institute(NBI)today announced the official release of one of the first LEED Automation tools available to LEED project teams.The COMNET Energy Modeling Portal is an online platform used to collect energy modeling simulation ...
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ilumisys, Inc., has granted a license to LED Global Supply, a global distributor of LED lighting solutions based in Westlake Village, Calif, for LED fluorescent tube replacements. The ilumisys licensing program allows LED Global Supply to ...
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Some of the latest developments in processing liquid silicone rubber and fluoropolymers for medical applications will be featured at the June 11-12 Plastics in Medical Devices conference, organized by Plastics News. The event in Westlake, ...
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In a surprising reversal, a 5-cent North American polyethylene price increase that seemed to have faded away in December actually took hold in the market. Many buyers contacted mid-month by Plastics News indicated that they did not expect ...
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Commodity resin prices are tumbling throughout North America, with polypropylene experiencing the steepest drop -- a 14-cent dive since Oct. 1. Regional prices for polyethylene, PVC, polystyrene and ABS also are down in recent weeks, ...
Automechanika Shanghai, Asia's largest trade fair for automotive parts, equipment and services, will take place from 8-11 December 2010 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Organised by Messe Frankfurt (Shanghai) Co Ltd and the ...
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