12.10.2015
- The cracker at Dow Iberica’s production complex in Tarragona, Spain, is down after an incident on Oct. 8, Spanish press reports suggest. Dow reported that propylene gas escaping...
05.06.2015
- Perstorp has been a well-known name in chemistry for over 130 years. Founded in 1881 as a producer of acetic acid and later formalin, the Swedish company went through an eventful...
21.04.2015
- Brazilian chemical giant Braskem is reviewing plans to build a world-scale ethane-fed cracker and downstream polyethylene plants in Parkersburg in the US state of West Virginia in...
08.11.2010
- South Korean petrochemical makers are racing to upgrade their naphtha cracking facilities to cash in on resurgent demand for plastics in Asia, led by China, after its worst slump...
15.06.2010
- India's Reliance Industries has restarted a giant fluid catalytic cracker unit (FCCU) at its 580,000 barrels-per-day refinery after a nearly week-long unplanned shutdown, two trade...
08.06.2010
- France oil major Total is in talks with state Saudi Aramco to build a cracker at their joint refinery in the kingdom, an executive from Total Petrochemicals said on Tuesday. Aramco...
31.05.2010
- Mitsubishi Chemical and Asahi Kasei have agreed to set up a joint venture to operate their ethylene facilities at the same site from April 2011, the two chemical firms said on...
12.05.2010
- Royal Dutch Shell's new Singapore ethylene cracker is operating at around 70% of capacity and is using some 30,000 tons a month or more of naphtha as feedstock, traders said on...
