Keyword: Plastics and Polymers

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AkzoNobel Lifts Peroxide Output in Mexico

09.06.2017 - AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of its Polymer Chemistry production complex in Los Reyes, Mexico. The investment widens the Dutch group’s North...

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Bayer to further cut Covestro Stake

07.06.2017 - Germany’s Bayer group has announced it will further reduce its stake in its former Bayer MaterialScience engineering plastics subgroup, which currently trades as Covestro. The...

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Honeywell UOP and Wison in MTO Pact

29.05.2017 - Long-standing partners Honeywell UOP and Wison Engineering have agreed to jointly provide methanol-to-olefin (MTO) technologies and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)...

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New LDPE Plant Starts up at Sadara

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...

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Ineos Styrolution Expands ASA and ASB in the Americas

02.05.2017 - As part of its plans to increase production capacity for styrenic polymers in the Americas, Ineos Styrolution has announced it will build a new 100,000 t/y ASA plant at Bayport...

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Chinese Invest in Oman Methanol Project

02.05.2017 - Chinese petrochemical producer Mingyuan Holdings has announced plans to build a $2.3 billion methanol-to-olefins (MTO) plant alongside a giant greenfield methanol complex at the...

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Lanxess Invests in Plastics at Lillo

28.04.2017 - German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess will invest EUR 25m in its Lillo complex in Antwerp, Belgium’s harbor during 2017. The company said most of the money will be spent on...

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New Giant Petchems and Plastics Project in Texas

29.03.2017 - Another new mammoth petrochemicals and plastics project has been announced for the US state of Texas by non-US companies seeking to profit from access to inexpensive shale gas...