The Provincial Government of North Cotabato formally launched last week (last week of Feb. 2014) its six-hectare National Rubber Budwood Nursery inside the ...

Albis Plastic GmbH, the specialist for the distribution and compounding of technical thermoplasts located in Hamburg and the Brazilian distributor of ...

Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc., the local unit of Japanese chemical firm Toray Industries Inc., said Monday (3 Mar. 2014) that it has completed the ...

Lanxess today announced that it will raise its prices worldwide for its rubber chemicals with effect from 1 April 2014 due to higher raw material prices and ...

Bayer MaterialScience LLC has acquired DuPont's Baytown, TX, USA, aniline production facility. With the acquisition, Bayer assumes responsibility for the ...

BP has completed the purchase of all interests in a purified terephthalic acid (PTA) joint venture previously held by Mitsui Chemicals and Mitsui & Co.

BASF announced it will build a new world-scale production plant to manufacture speciality amines at its existing wholly-owned site in the Nanjing Chemical ...

Dow Chemical recently announced that a new research and development (R&D) facility will be built in Lake Jackson, TX, near its largest manufacturing site in ...

Muntajat BV, the international marketing arm of Qatar Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and Distribution Company, recently opened five international ...

Asahi Kasei Chemicals and Mitsubishi Chemical have concluded an agreement for unifying their respective naphtha crackers in Mizushima, Japan, into one, ...

The Chinese company JiangXi Black Cat has recently opened its eighth production plant for furnace black in Jining, Shandong province.

The Asahi Kasei Group, as part of its "For Tomorrow 2015" initiative, has decided to realign operations in Japan to strengthen its petrochemical business there. ...

MECSPE 2014 will open its doors from 27 - 29 March in Parma, Italy. With its seven different trade shows, the trade show is certain to become an international ...

Samsung Total said on 25 Feb. 2014 that it has succeeded in mass-production of a polypropylene catalyst that contains no phthalate, a plasticizer known to cause ...

Styron has announced plans to increase latex capacity at its Zhangjiagang, China, production site, mainly to support increasing domestic demand, which is ...

The global market for paraxylene is showing signs of overcapacity. Since 2010 when paraxylene prices had risen rapidly due to an increase in the demand for ...

The JGCS Consortium has signed an agreement authorizing Vietnam’s Construction Corp. No. 1 to proceed with civil works for the USD 9-billion Nghi Son Refinery & ...

The petrochemical complex in Moerdijk has nearly tripled its capacity over the years to 5.4 million t/y in 2013 and remains a key asset to Shell globally.

Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated its new coatings, adhesives and specialities laboratory at the DuBiotech premises, a major life science cluster, in Dubai, ...

S-Oil Corp. has submitted a bid for 227 acres in Ulsan, South Korea, being offered by Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) for construction of a refining or ...

Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. (Borouge), a joint venture of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis, is undergoing start-up activities on its USD 4.5-billion third ...

Qatar’s stock exchange will begin listing shares of Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding Co. on 26 Feb. 2014, opening up trading in the company to foreigners, press ...

Lukoil confirmed that its Stavrolen subsidiary on 26 Feb. 2014 experienced a fire in the ethylene production unit gas separation workshop at its petrochemical ...

Uhdenora, a joint venture of ThyssenKrupp Electrolysis and Industrie De Nora, has signed a contract with Befar Group, for the construction of an 80,000-t/y ...

Hengyi Industries, Hongkong Tianyi International Holding and the Damai Holdings subsidiary of the Brunei government’s Strategic Development Capital Fund, have ...

Ineos and Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co. (YPC) have signed the joint venture agreement and the articles of association establishing Ineos YPC Phenol (Nanjing) ...

The Sultanate’s plastics industry has been growing robustly thanks to sustained heavy investments from both the public and private sector in construction and ...

Some 30,000 rubber smallholders in the districts of Bera, Temerloh and Jerantut claim their income has been affected by the drought since early this month (Feb. ...

Nexen Tire Corp., South Korea’s third largest tire maker, said Friday (28 Feb. 2014) that one of its premium products won a prestigious international design ...

In 2013, more than 2 million t of flame retardants were consumed worldwide.

Both the Thai government and private sector have indicated that the global price of natural rubber will begin to recover within the next 2-3 months.

The Indonesian government continues to monitor the situation in Thailand, in terms of trade, as it is the biggest producer of rubber, according to Indonesia's ...

The Saudi Plastics and Petrochem 2014 ended on Thursday (20 Feb. 2014), with a record turnout of 22,000 visitors from different parts of the world, including ...

Stefan Beckmann has been appointed Managing Director, BASF Petronas Chemicals Sdn. Bhd., based in Malaysia, effective today (28 Feb. 2014). He succeeds Joachim ...

Malaysia is prepared to share its expertise with Cambodia to develop the rubber plantation sector in that country, said Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

Vencorex, the joint venture company operated by shareholders PTTGC and Perstorp, recently announced plans to strengthen its worldwide position in the ...

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) President & CEO Cal Dooley has recently issued the following statement in response to Congressman John Shimkus’ release of ...

Effective 1 March 2014, or as existing contracts permit, Vencorex has increased prices on HDI (Hexamethylene Di-Isocyanate) and its derivatives range (Tolonate ...

In just over four years, Alliance Polymers & Services, LLC has established itself as a leading distributor of thermoplastic elastomers in North America. Along ...

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, said that Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical Co. Ltd., a Chinese petrochemical producer, has selected UOP’s C3 Oleflex process ...

Vietnam’s rubber production faced many difficulties in 2013, but southern province of Binh Duong still reached encouraging results, the Binh Duong online ...

A high-ranking nine-member German trade delegation from the petrochemical sector is currently in the Kingdom to boost ties with their Saudi counterparts. The ...