Keyword: PP

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Kordsa Expands Polyester and PP Output

12.01.2018 - Turkish company Kordsa, a tire cord specialist, broke ground last month on its polyester expansion project in Izmit, Turkey. The additional 7,000 t/y of polyester yarn production...

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Indonesia Plans Coal-based Chemicals Complex

22.12.2017 - Three Indonesian firms – Pertamina, Chandra Asri and Pupuk Indonesia – have signed an agreement in principle with local mining group Bukit Asam to look at the feasibility of...

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Advanced Petrochemical to Build Specialties Plant

22.11.2017 - Saudi Arabian propylene and PP producer Advanced Petrochemical has signed a Heads of Agreement with Global Company for Downstream Industries (GDI) to develop a project to produce...

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Borealis Studies European PP Expansion

08.11.2017 - Major polyolefins producer Borealis is to undertake a feasibility study on a series of PP capacity increases during the next nine months. The study will assess a program of...

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SK Buys Dow’s PVDC Business

06.11.2017 - SK Global Chemical, part of SK Innovation, is buying another asset from Dow Chemical, this time its polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) business. The acquisition includes all production...

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SABIC Unveils Plans for PP Investment at Geleen

25.09.2017 - SABIC has inaugurated a new polypropylene (PP) pilot plant at Geleen, the Netherlands, and at the same time announced a new investment in a state-of-the-art PP extrusion facility...

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Indian Oil Approves Refinery/PP project

09.08.2017 - The board of directors at Indian Oil has approved the expansion of its Gujarat refinery, which will also incorporate units to produce propylene and PP. The refinery’s crude oil...

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Grace Gives Unipol License to Canadian PP Project

02.08.2017 - US technology and chemical company W.R. Grace has granted a license for its Unipol PP process technology to Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC), a 50:50 joint venture between...