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LONDON (ICIS news)--INEOS has completed the EURO290m ($394m) acquisition of Borealis petrochemicals business in Norway, the UK chemicals major said on Monday. The acquisition of Borealis AS is an important development for INEOS Olefins, said INEOS Olefins CEO Tom Crotty. This not ...
About 12,000 mt of Saudi-origin ethylene has been sold to Taiwan for September delivery as part of an incremental contract volume, market sources said Friday. The first 6,000 mt portion of the sale was set last week, with the second half of the parcel transacted Thursday, sources ...
Mounting concern over bacterial contamination in many settings has led Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, to introduce Anti-Crobe Antimicrobial Polymers, a family of antimicrobial acetal copolymers (POM) that includes two injection molding grades ...
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. has successfully installed its fourth propylene fractionator at the partnership's Mont Belvieu, Texas complex that is now in service. The new unit allows Enterprise to increase its production of polymer grade propylene (PGP) at the facility by 26...
South Korean company- Daewoo Engineering Co has been awarded a US$130 mln order to build a high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant for a unit of PTT PCL , Thailand's biggest energy firm. Daewoo will build the 250,000 tpa HDPE plant in an industrial complex about 200 kms southeast ...
State-run Indian Oil Corp. (IOC) has sold 180,000 tons of naphtha to be loaded from Kandla between October 2007 and March 2008 to Emirates National Oil Co (ENOC) at an US$8/ton premium to its price formula, free-on-board (FOB) basis, as per a trading source. IOC also sold 91,500...
Oil prices, that steadied at lower levels in the previous session on slower than expected economic growth figures and profit-taking, have moved up marginally to US$73. Light, sweet crude for October delivery inched up to US$73.47 a barrel in Asian electronic trading on the New ...
BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday afternoon launched a gas pipeline that runs from the southwestern inland of Sichuan to coastal Shanghai, another "energy artery" to fuel the booming but energy-insufficient east following the grand West-East gas project. The 1,700-km ...
BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's supply of coal largely managed to meet domestic demand in the first half of this year, sources with the National Reform and Development Commission said on Sunday. The top economic planning agency estimated between January and June, 1.26 ...
Weaker prices of aluminium on the LME have helped ensure strong demand conditions for this non-ferrous metal in July 2007. As a result, aluminium inventories in the Asian region (including India) amounted to 350, 000 tonnes in July 2007 as compared with 381,000 tonnes in the ...
04 Sep 2007 - Effective October 1, 2007, ANGUS Chemical Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, is announcing a ten percent (10%) price increase for both list and off list prices for its entire TRIS AMINOTM brand tromethamine product portfolio around the ...
BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- China is reconsidering the necessity of imposing anti-dumping duty on a Russian caprolactam supplier, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Monday. Kemerovo Joint Stock Company "AZOT", a major chemical plant in west Siberia, filed in July an ...
SUMMARY Crude oil futures spiked to a four week high, rising to US$74.04 a barrel for October delivery in the week of Sep 3, 2007 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, on account of a sudden drop in inventories. Naphtha rose in line with robust crude prices. Ethylene prices ...
SUMMARY Crude oil futures spiked to a four week high, rising to US$74.04 a barrel for October delivery in the week of Sep 3, 2007 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, on account of a sudden drop in inventories. Naphtha rose in line with robust crude prices. Ethylene prices ...
Oltchim Ramnicu Valcea is to commence negotiations for the acquisition of Petrochemicals Arges. Petrochemicals Arges encompasses petrochemical operations of Romanian oil firm Petrom's Arpechim Pitesti refinery. If an agreement is reached, Oltchim plans to invest 100 mln Euro to ...
General Electric Co. has completed the US$11.6 bln sale of its plastics division to Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC). In recent years, GE Plastics' performance results have afflicted by the rising costs of natural gas and raw materials since 2004. Profits for the division ...
Ineos Polyolefins has removed force majeure (FM) on its LDPE production at Cologne, Germany, after repairs have successfully carried out. The force majeure was declared in May 2007 after one of the lines faced problems caused by a minor ethylene leakage at the same time that the ...
Hindustan Copper (HCL), a public sector copper producer, has cut its basic prices across all product categories by 4.55 per cent following a 4.65 per cent decline in the metal price on the London Metal Exchange (LME).
The latest generation of the established Helizarin textile pigment printing system from BASF is now formaldehyde-free. As a result, textile producers can now meet all regulatory standards, as well as the requirements of leading retailers and brands related to formaldehyde without ...
05 Sep 2007 - Rhodia announced that the construction of its new 48kt Polyamide 6.6 salt and polymerization plant in Onsan, South Korea is on schedule and that plant start-up is set for early December 2007. Rhodia invested almost 40 million euro in the design and construction of ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
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Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
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Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...