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...
27.06.2017
- The board of directors at Brazilian petrochemicals producer Braskem has formally approved the construction of a 450,000 t/y polypropylene (PP) plant at its site in LaPorte, near...
25.05.2017
- A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a joint-venture PE plant has been signed between Kazakhstan’s Unified Chemical Company and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company. The MoU...
20.04.2017
- Automotive component manufacturer Toyota Boshoku, part of the Toyota group, will partner with Mitsui Chemicals to commercialize a high impact-resistant plastic as a resin modifier...
20.02.2017
- US chemical and catalysts producer W.R. Grace has announced that it was contracted in the fourth quarter of 2016 to license its Unipol PP gas-phase process technology to China’s...
24.11.2016
- Saudi Arabian chemicals giant SABIC will start up a new pilot plant for developing next-generation polypropylene (PP) grades by the end of March 2017. The plant is the latest in a...
24.10.2016
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has opened a new PP catalyst production facility in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, as part of a strategy to accelerate its growth in North...
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...
