British engineering and consulting group Wood has won two contracts from Uzbek contractor Enter Engineering for projects in the Central Asian country. The contracts...
19.07.2017
- China’s Shaanxi Coal Yulin Energy and Chemical has chosen LyondellBasell’s Spherizone and Lupotech T process technologies for PP and LDPE plants being built in the Jingbian...
20.06.2017
- Dow Chemical said it has completed construction of its new 400,000 t/y LLDPE plant at Freeport, Texas, one of four polymer production facilities grouped downstream of a 1.5 million...
05.05.2017
- Sadara, the joint venture of Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco, has started up a new 50,000 t/y high-pressure LDPE plant at its complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Like the three PE...
27.09.2016
- Russian gas and petrochemicals giant Sibur has upgraded and expanded its polymer production at Tomsk. Sums totalling more than 10 billion rubles ($157 million) have been spent on...
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...
20.01.2015
- The development of shale gas and the resulting low prices for natural gas in the United States have resulted in a major change in the production costs of plastics. According to the...
28.10.2014
- After receiving all permits, the board of South African chemical producer Sasol has given the green light to begin construction on the company's planned $8.1 billion, 1.5 million t...
