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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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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Technip was awarded by The Dow Chemical Company the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract and cracking furnaces engineering and procurement services for a previously announced new large world-scale ethylene production plant to be ...
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Japan’s imports of naphtha, a key raw material for production of ethylene used in the textile industry, grew by 5.3 percent month-on-month in October to 1.183 million tons, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Economy, ...
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Georgia Gulf Corporation (GGC), a leading North American manufacturer and international marketer of commodity chemicals as well as polymers, is considering buying a stake in any US-based ethylene plant to meet its raw material requirements. ...
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The ExxonMobil Chemical Plant has warned the communities of Mossmorran in the United Kingdom about the intermittent flaring at the Fife Ethylene Plant. The plant was shutdown for maintenance work and it has restarted again. “As ...
In spite of various difficulties posed by several external factors, the Brahmaputra Cracker & Polymer Ltd's (BCPL) project, also called the Assam Gas Cracker Project, is heading in the right direction and 79.6 percent of the project work is ...
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Eastman Chemical has begun shutting down its No.4 ethylene cracker at its Longview, Texas facility for planned maintenance, overhaul and repair operations. The planned turnaround at the around 270,000 tons per annum ethylene plant is ...
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