The 23rd edition of Fakuma, the international trade fair for plastics processing, will open its doors from 14 – 18 October 2014 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The ...

Binh Phuoc Rubber Company opened a latex processing plant on 20 Aug. 2014 in the Dong Phu commune of the southern province of Binh Phuoc.

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. announced that its two US industrial product manufacturing and sales subsidiaries have been merged into the newly established ...

Scientex Bhd has entered into a strategic agreement with Japanese film producer Futamura Chemical Co. to build a biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film ...

PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC) and Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina, having completed a feasibility study, are looking into expanding an oil refinery, as part of ...

PT Indo Thai Trading (ITT) has launched operations as a joint venture of Indonesia’s Pertamina and Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC), which will ultimately ...

Thailand’s PTT Plc has completed and is preparing to submit to the Vietnamese government a study for a petrochemical complex to be built in Vietnam’s Binh Dinh ...

Sinopec Engineering and Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI) have terminated an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a propane ...

Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. (Borouge) anticipates that its $4.5-billion third phase expansion project in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, initially scheduled to begin production ...

LG Chem said it will adopt a two-track strategy of fostering material technology-based business and developing new materials to overcome a slump in the global ...

The Dinh Vu Polyester Fibre Plant exported nearly 5,500 tonnes of products to the European market in its first three months of operation, according to the ...

Nexen Tire announced that its eco-friendly tire N’BlueEco has received the Green Good Design Award.

Export prices for rubber are expected to recover to US$2,000 per tonne in the next three years, following sharp reductions due to high international rubber ...

Vietnam ranked the world's third largest natural rubber producer and the fourth largest exporter following Thailand , Indonesia and Malaysia in 2013. Currently, ...

Lanxess is pressing ahead systematically with its realignment and has defined a three-phase programme "Let’s Lanxess again”, divided into the following three ...

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. during May 2014 completed the previously announced shutdown of its No. 1 ethylene facility and No. 1 benzene plant in Kashima, Japan.

Teijin Ltd., in announcing its financial results, disclosed that it has recently discontinued the production of paraxylene in Matsuyama, Japan, its only ...

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Co. (Orpic) has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol polypropylene (PP) process technology for a new 300,000-t/y PP ...

Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical announced they will transfer ownership of the Rabigh Phase II (Rabigh II) project to Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. ...

Hankook, South Korea's leading tire company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday (7 Aug 2014) with Idiada, a company based in Spain that ...

The demand for nitrile gloves is expected to remain robust and can offset any possible margin compressions in the industry, according to Hartalega Holdings Bhd ...

The Surgil natural gas chemicals complex in Uzbekistan is due to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2015, said reports quoting Huh Soo-young, president of ...

A 20,000-hectare rubber tree plantation is being programmed in Agusan del Sur after having been seen as another key factor in climate change mitigation and ...

Hyosung announced it is three months ahead of schedule in the construction of South Korea’s first polyketone production facility and now anticipates completion ...

BASF said it has broken ground on the second phase of its Innovation Campus Asia Pacific at the Pudong site in Shanghai, China.

In the face of falling rubber prices, revenue from Cambodia’s rubber exports over the first six months of the year fell slightly compared to the same period ...

Rubber prices are expected to be stable at between RM5.25 and RM5.70 a kg until year-end, said chairman of Malaysian Rubber Board, Datuk Ahmad Hamzah.

PT Chandra Asri has placed the assets of its PT Styrindo Mono Indonesia (SMI) and PT Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia (PBI) subsidiaries as collateral for loans ...