Ethanol processed from corn and other plants could serve as the new sustainable raw material for a huge variety of products, including textiles, which are currently made from petrochemical products. Ethanol which is further processed ...
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NWE ethylene spot prices rose Eur15/mt on the week Thursday to Eur1,020-1,025/mt ($1,314-1,320) FD NWE, driven by better-than-expected offtake from primary derivative polyethylene in July. On Friday, a buyer and seller confirmed a 2,000 ...
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The US spot ethylene market was at a standstill Thursday on news of an explosion and fire at Williams' olefins complex in Louisiana that killed one person earlier in the day, market sources said. Sellers pulled all material Thursday ...
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LyondellBasell has settled its April Northwest European styrene monomer contract price at Eur1,413/metric ton ($1,837/mt) FCA Rotterdam, one of the company's customers confirmed Friday. LyondellBasell wasn't immediately available Friday ...
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The Northwest Europe forward delivered spot PVC price has dropped on week, reflecting a sharp fall in the April ethylene contract price and poor demand, market sources said Tuesday. Ethylene -- made from oil or natural gas which is ...
European naphtha prices have come under pressure from run cuts in the polyolefin chain as well as falling crude prices, with ICE Brent futures sinking to an eight-month low Friday, sources said. CIF NWE naphtha was assessed at $846.50/mt ...
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US spot styrene margins are poised to remain flat to slightly higher following the procurement of cheaper feedstock ethylene estimated to begin in 2015-2016 as a result of the shale gas plays, industry sources said Monday on the sidelines ...
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The spot market for LPG cargoes loading out of the Middle East has softened amid weak demand from Asian buyers, according to market sources. This was reflected in the spot cargo price differentials, with Arcadia heard selling 44,000 mt of ...
Wison Engineering Services Co. Ltd. China's largest private chemical EPC contractor announced that Wison Engineering Ltd, an indirect non-wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, has successfully completed the delivery of six projects of the ...
Sumitomo Chemical has decided that it will close down an ethylene plant at its Chiba Works located in Ichihara, Chiba, Japan, in or before September 2015 when the next periodic shutdown maintenance will take place, to reinforce the ...
Braskem Idesa has announced the successful signing of key documents for securing US$ 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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An official figure in the Iranian National Petrochemical Company said that world's largest ethylene producer has been launched in Asalouyeh.Official added that the West Ethylene Pipeline will begin operation. Mr Reza Amiri directing ...
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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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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated a better way to use photosynthesis to produce ethylene, a breakthrough that could change the way materials, chemicals, and ...
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The production of ethylene and propylene has been fully resumed at Stavrolen petrochemical complex (a LUKOIL subsidiary) in Budennovsk. Both these substances were then forwarded to units producing polyethylene and polypropylene. Thus, ...
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