Mitsui Chemicals plans to discontinue production of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) at its Iwakuni-Ohtake site in Yamaguchi, Japan. The 145 kta PET facility, which began production in 1984, is scheduled to close in October 2024. Since 2013 Japan has seen a rise in imports of cheap PET from overseas, as well as growing demand from recycled PET bottles that do not require virgin resin a combination of factors that has forced Mitsui Chemicals to lower the facility operating rate of its PET busi...

The European Commission (EC) has approved, under the European Union Merger Regulation, the creation of a joint venture by Ineos and Sinopec for an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plant under construction by Sinopec in Tianjin, China. The 300 kta ABS facility, based on Ineos Terluran ABS technology, is expected to come on stream in April 2025. The Tianjin unit is the second of three new-build ABS plants announced by both companies last year, each to be managed as a joint venture between...

SK Geo Centric (SKGC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Plastic Energy to establish a joint venture and construct a pyrolysis facility in South Korea. The 66 kta plant (Pyrolysis Plant 2), to be built in the Songsan-2 Foreign Investment Zone in Dangjin, will be the second pyrolysis facility after the Ulsan Advanced Recycling Cluster (ARC) currently being built in Ulsan. The pyrolysis oil produced at Pyrolysis Plant 2 is expected to be further refined at Ulsan ARC’s pyrolysis...

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