19.08.2013
- Libya's largest refinery on Friday loaded its first petroleum products tanker since labor unrest hit the oil sector nearly three weeks ago but protests still throttled the country...
16.08.2013
- Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group has agreed to invest $1.15 billion as part of a deal to buy nearly a third of a new iron ore project in Australia from partners Fortescue Metals...
03.07.2013
- Ineos Oligomers has announced plans to build a new plant for linear alpha olefins (LAO) on the U.S. Gulf coast. Set to start up in 2016, the facility will have initial capacity of...
03.07.2013
- Exploiting a loophole in Western sanctions, Iran is importing a high grade of refined alumina ore from several European countries including Germany and France that Tehran could be...
25.06.2013
- Myriant has started up its flagship bio-succinic acid plant at Lake Providence, Louisiana, in the U.S. The company said the unit with nameplate capacity of 30 million lbs (13.6 t/y...
25.06.2013
- China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved plans by BP Zhuhai, an 85:15 joint venture of the British oil and petrochemicals producer and China's Zhuhai...
24.06.2013
- U.S. industrial gases producer Praxair is building its second air separation plant and extending its pipeline system in the Port of Antwerp, the world's second largest chemical...
20.06.2013
- Seen from a logistical perspective, there are sectors of industry that differ from most of the others by virtue of their specialized requirements. One of these sectors is the...
03.06.2013
- The logistics fair transport logistic - which takes place between 4th and 7th June 2013 in Munich - will now benefit from the strengths and expertise of CeMAT (organized by...
01.05.2013
- Oil traders including commodities giant Trafigura and Australian bank Macquarie have quietly begun shipping U.S. crude oil from Texas to Canada, raising the ire of U.S. East Coast...