Thai state-owned oil and gas company, PTT, will propose to the Energy Ministry and the Cabinet that promotion of the bioplastics industry be made a national ...

Cambodian officials say they will focus on nine different sectors in a bid to diversify and ensure continued national economic growth. Among the nine ...

Villagers who confiscated land-clearing equipment during a forest patrol on 25 March 2013 in Khsuem commune in Kratie province’s Snuol district are claiming the ...

Fujairah's economic development could be boosted by a petrochemical industry feeding on a refinery being built by an Abu Dhabi investor.

The mechanical engineering firm KraussMaffei was established 175 years ago, on 20 March 1838. Domiciled in Munich since its founding, the company has a strong ...

ETU (ethylene thiourea) is the accelerator molecule most commonly used for more than 80 years in the vulcanisation of polychloroprene rubber as it facilitates ...

Versalis and Pirelli have signed a memorandum of understanding to undertake a joint research project on the use of guayule-based natural rubber for the ...

OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol process technology for a new single line 400,000 t/y polypropylene plant to be built as ...

Solvay SA, of Belgium, has announced it will increase its investment in Thailand - one of its three main Asian production bases - while pursuing opportunities ...

Fujian Meide Petrochemical Co. Ltd. has selected the UOP C3 Oleflex process technology for a project to convert propane to propylene in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, ...

The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) is planning to launch a second edition of strategies for the local rubber industry within the next few months in view of the ...

Williams has announced that it has sanctioned construction of a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility in Alberta, Canada. The new PDH facility, the first and ...

Cabot has completed a new plastics applications development laboratory in Shanghai, China, to better serve and collaborate with customers in the Chinese and ...

Senior industry experts will gather at the fourth edition of PlastCon, held from 7-9 April 2013 in Dubai, to focus on bolstering the growth of the Middle East’s ...

Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. and trading company Mitsui & Co. said Monday (18 March 2013) they have signed a preliminary agreement to explore the ...

SK Gas has awarded CB&I a contract for a grassroots propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit to be built in Ulsan, South Korea, and based on the Catofin ...

Hambana Petrochemical Ltd. (HPL), a unit of Peak Energy of Singapore, has signed an agreement with the Sri Lanka Ports Authority for a project to produce ...

Da Nang Rubber Co (DRC) – a blue chip on the HCM City Stock Exchange – said it would join the exclusive group of enterprises earning an annual revenue of VND3 ...

Sadara Chemical Company launched the public offering of sukuk certificates (Islamic bonds) following the approval by the Capital Market Authority (CMA), the ...

Analysts are positive on Top Glove Corp Bhd's aggressive expansion into the nitrile glove segment, notwithstanding the stiff competition expected from other ...

An explosion in a tank storing high-density polyethylene erupted in a chemical plant in the southern coastal city of Yeosu, South Korea, Thursday night (14 ...

Goodyear (Thailand) Plc (GYT) plans domestic sales growth of more than 12% this year, driven by active marketing and dealership expansion.

State-owned energy company Pertamina has chosen Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical as a partner in the development of a USD 5 billion petrochemical facility in ...

Thanks to seasonal demand, the price of rubber has increased from 2012’s year-end prices. But it was still slightly lower than at this time last year, a ...

DuPont Performance Polymers announced a price increase of EUR 0.15 per kg for Zytel nylon 66 base polymers in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Ube Industries, Ltd., Lotte Chemical Corp., Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Sdn. Bhd., and Mitsubishi Corp. have established a 40/40/10/10 joint venture to ...

A pioneering futures contract designed to ease volatility in the price of plastics on international markets is set to be launched in Dubai before the end of the ...

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers is announcing a price increase of EUR 0.10/kg on all Elvax EVA copolymer resins in the region Europe, Middle East and ...

Trelleborg has acquired the industrial tyre business of the Dutch company Industriebanden Beheer B. V. The business specialises in the distribution and service ...

The State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan (Socar) has awarded KBR a contract to provide project management services for the front end engineering design (FEED) phase of ...

Condor Compounds announced investment in a new 150 mm 20d co-kneader line to manufacture Conlink crosslinkable halogen free and flame retardant cable insulation ...

Borealis has acquired DexPlastomers VOF in Geleen, The Netherlands. The company was a 50/50 joint venture ultimately owned by Royal DSM and ExxonMobil Chemical ...

The Thai agriculture ministry is urging rubber farmers who have participated in a state subsidy programme to help maintain the stability of prices during a ...

China, Singapore and Malaysia are the largest importers of Myanmar’s rubber, according to a report on Myanmar news website Mizzima.

Chinaplas 2013 – the 27^th International Exhibition on Plastics and Rubber Industries, Asia’s no. 1 and world’s no. 2 plastics and rubber trade fair, ...

Lanxess will convert production of E-SBR used in standard tyres to S-SBR used in “green” tyres at its site in Triunfo (Rio Grande do Sul) in southern Brazil. ...

Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, will acquire Bird Engineering B. V., a Dutch biotech contract research company, specifically in the field of industrial microbiology

Supermax Corp Bhd expects total sales from emerging markets to increase by 10 % in one or two years from 6 % currently.

Solvay announced it will invest EUR 75 million to build a new 85,000 t/y highly dispersible silica (HDS) plant in Wloclawek, Poland.

Oriental Energy has signed a license with Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical, for Unipol polypropylene ...

A Malaysian government rubber agency is prepared to develop 20,000 hectares of rubber and oil-palm plantations in Cambodia, provided suitable land can be found.

The first-ever loan scheme for small-scale rubber estate owners by the Thurusaviya Fund and Bank of Ceylon has been titled "Thurusaviya Loan Scheme."

Mitsubishi Rayon Co. (MRC) has entered into a merger agreement that will allow MRC to strengthen its acrylonitrile chain.

A privately owned Singapore packaging company, Dynapack Asia, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Viscount Plastics Malaysia, a manufacturer of ...

Al Waha Petrochemicals Co. has initiated the necessary steps to restart the production units at its Jubail complex in Saudi Arabia after a “sudden technical ...