25.07.2016
- Polish petrochemicals group PKN Orlen is to build a metathesis unit at its site in Plock. The unit will add capacity of 100,000 t/y polymer-grade propylene taking total output to...
25.07.2016
- US oil and petrochemicals group ExxonMobil has announced it will expand its specialty elastomers plant in Newport, Wales by late 2017, increasing global capacity for its Santoprene...
19.07.2016
- With a new UK government in place, the shale gas industry has quickly come forward to insist that fracking find a place at the top of the national agenda post-Brexit. In former...
07.07.2016
- Chemical production in the 28 EU member states shrank by 0.7% year-on-year on average in the first four months of 2016 and thus remained 5.9% below the pre-crisis 2008 level, the...
28.06.2016
- Russian oil company Rosneft has signed separate deals with Chinese organisations Sinopec and ChemChina for two petrochemical projects in Russia. The agreements were announced on...
23.06.2016
- Italian state-owned oil, gas and petrochemicals group Eni and US private equity company SK Capital have broken off talks over the sale of a majority stake in Eni’s chemicals and...
22.06.2016
- German engineering plastics producer Covestro has inaugurated its new CO2-to-polyols plant at Dormagen, Germany. The facility that cost €15 million to build will produce 5,000 t of...
13.06.2016
- Westlake Chemical has won the race to acquire compatriot Axiall Corp for $2.33 billion – or $33 per share. The US petrochemical and plastics group based in Houston, Texas clinched...
