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Praxair China Supplies Oxygen for Water Treatment Projects Serving Beijing Olympic Games

13 Mar 2008 - Beijing Praxair Inc., an affiliate of Praxair China, has signed an oxygen supply contract with Beijing Drainage Group Co., Ltd (BDG). Under the contract, Praxair China will be the exclusive supplier of oxygen to three wastewater treatment plants in Beijing that will ...

OPEC oil prices surpass $100 a barrel

VIENNA, March 12 (Xinhua) -- OPEC's daily average oil prices have hit 100 U.S. dollars for the first time, the Vienna-based cartel said Wednesday. The Organization of Oil Exporting Countries' basket of 13 crudes rose to 100.57 U.S. dollars a barrel Tuesday from 99.48 dollars the ...

Fire at Mitsubishi's ethylene unit blamed on lack of adequate safety

The fatal fire at Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.'s ethylene plant in Ibaraki Prefecture was caused by failure to take adequate safety measures, according to the prefectural government's accident investigation committee. Failure to shut off the main cock of a compressed air valve used ...

China's ethylene output spikes past 10 mln tons in 2007

As per preliminary figures released by China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, ethylene output in the country saw a 12% increase to 10.48 mln tons in 2007. Polyethylene output increased by 27% increase to 6.93 mln tons, whereas polypropylene output witnessed a 21% ...

Fire at Mitsubishi's ethylene unit blamed on lack of adequate safety

The fatal fire at Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.'s ethylene plant in Ibaraki Prefecture was caused by failure to take adequate safety measures, according to the prefectural government's accident investigation committee. Failure to shut off the main cock of a compressed air valve used ...

Billion dollar paraxylene plant in Xiamen likely to be relocated amid protests

Work on the billion-dollar paraxylene (PX) plant in Chinese port of Xiamen is expected to be relocated elsewhere, following sustained and rare protests from residents who labelled it an "atomic bomb. Work on the project was stopped in May last year amid noisy protests that ...

Crude futures set new record

Crude futures set another record high Tuesday on weak U.S. dollar. Light, sweet crude for April delivery settled 85 cents, or 0.8 percent, to 108.75 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after jumping to a record intraday high of 109.72 dollars a barrel ...

Price trends of oil, polymer feedstock and commodity polymers in Asia for this week

SUMMARY After nearing a record price of US$106 a barrel in the week of March 10, 2008, oil prices stabilized at US$105 at the end of the week. Naphtha prices rose in line with optimistic crude market. Ethylene and propylene prices have dipped on supply pressures. EDC prices have ...

China power sector to boom as oil sector goes slower

BEIJING - China unveiled a raft of targets for its energy and power sectors on Thursday, revealing a plan for a rapid increase in power generation but a much slower rise in the country's oil refining capacity over the next five years. China faces the challenge of keeping its ...

Dow to expand polyol capacity by 180,000 tpa at Terneuzen

Dow Polyurethanes plans to invest in capacity expansion at its' Terneuzen facility. Dow plans to expand polyol production capacity by 180,000 tpa at Netherlands. Dow planned to go ahead with the detailed engineering phase of a name-plate capacity expansion at the Terneuzen plant ...

Chemicals Feed Hopes and Fears

14 Mar 2008 - Without their products chemical companies would be praised as ethical leaders. Chemical products are a space for complex and emotional debates where it is hard to register reputation gains. Companies rather manage to do so at the levels of working conditions, impact ...

Dow to Raise Prices of Oxygenated Solvents Products

14 Mar 2008 - The Dow Chemical Company announced that it will raise list and off-list prices on a number of its Oxygenated Solvents products in North America effective April 1, 2008, or as contracts allow. This increase is primarily driven by the continuous rise in raw material ...

Copolymers block out new approaches to microelectronics at NIST

14 Mar 2008 - In response to the electronics industry's rallying cry of "smaller and faster," the next breakthroughs in the electronics size barrier are likely to come from microchips and data storage devices created out of novel materials such as organic molecules and polymers. ...

Procter & Gamble wins corporate sustainability recognition

14 Mar 2008 - Procter & Gamble's long-term commitment to corporate sustainability was rewarded before an audience of European business leaders, politicians, VIPs and press at the 2008 European Business Awards - the annual gathering to celebrate Europe's top businesses and ...

Russia's Gazprom, Ukraine reach agreement on gas deliveries

MOSCOW, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Russia's gas giant Gazprom reached agreement with Ukraine on gas deliveries in 2008, local media reported on Thursday. Ukraine will receive at least 49.8 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas originating in Central Asia at 179.5 U.S. dollars per thousand ...

Crude prices refresh records on weak dollar

NEW YORK, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Crude oil futures refreshed record highs Thursday on the weakening U.S. dollar. Light, sweet crude for April delivery was up 41 cents to 110.33 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after hitting111 dollars a barrel. April Brent crude ...

Oil prices surpass 110 U.S.dollars

VIENNA -- Oil hovered around a record high of 110 U.S. dollars a barrel Wednesday with a tumbling U.S. dollar, fund flows and OPEC's reluctance to pump extra crude providing support. Oil prices jumped from less than dollars 70 to over 110 dollars, due to geopolitical crisis and ...

Joint research: Probing the mysteries of a surprisingly tough hydrogel

13 Mar 2008 - Some 46 million people suffer from arthritis in the United States alone. The worst cases require painful surgeries to drill holes in and reinforce joints. Now researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are studying an unusually ...

BASF introduces new acetal material for blow moulding

12 March 2008 BASF has developed a copolymer acetal (POM) material with considerably enhanced melt stiffness, enabling POM to be easily processed for the first time by extrusion blow moulding. BASF displayed a piggy bank moulded from the material at a briefing on the eve of its ...

Resin Systems' Production Increases on Schedule

13 Mar 2008 - Resin Systems Inc. ("RS") announced that the design and engineering has been completed on the second RStandard(TM) utility pole production cell at the Tilbury, ON manufacturing facility. Procurement is substantially complete and installation of the cell's superstruc...

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