29.09.2015
- Thanks to its location on the US Gulf Coast with its booming shale gas industry and generous investment incentives to investors, the state of Louisiana is rapidly becoming a mecca...
21.05.2015
- Dutch chemical producer DSM and US-based Ascend Performance Materials, the former Solutia polyamide business currently owned by private equity investor SK Capital, have formed a...
29.04.2015
- US plastics compounder and distributor A. Schulman has added a new PET compounding unit at its Bornem masterbatch plant in Belgium. While not disclosing either investment cost or...
15.01.2015
- Thai PET giant Indorama and Turkish conglomerate Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding have agreed not to pursue a sale to transfer 51% of Adana-based polyester and PET producer Sasa Polyester...
17.04.2014
- Indorama Ventures (IVL), world's largest PET producer, appears to be building a strong foothold in the Turkish market through acquisition. The Dutch subsidiary of the Thailand...
21.02.2014
- The commercial court in Barcelona, Spain, overseeing the bankruptcy of erstwhile Spanish PET giant La Seda de Barcelona has authorised receiver Forest Partners to proceed with the...
11.02.2014
- As the liquidation process for insolvent Spanish PET producer La Seda proceeds, reports from Spain say the company's 170,000 t/y PET polymerization plant at El Prat Llobregat and...
09.01.2014
- Spanish PET producer La Seda de Barcelona, in insolvency proceedings since June 2013, has filed a request with the Barcelona commercial court overseeing the proceedings to...
