2016/07/15 |
Mitsubishi Chemical delays restart of Kashima cracker |
Mitsubishi Chemical has postponed the restart of the cracker by 15 days. The cracker is likely to be brought on-stream on mid-July 2016. It... |
2016/07/08 |
Formosa to shut PVC plant for maintenance |
Formosa Plastics plans to shut a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant for a maintenance turnaround. The company is likely to be taken off-stream i... |
2016/06/30 |
JG Summit Planning Feasibility Study On Expanding Batangas PC Capacity |
JG Summit Holdings will conduct a feasibility study on the potential expansion of its petrochemical facility in Batangas, the Philippines. T... |
2016/06/23 |
Jindal Poly Films Extends Completion Date Of BOPP Capacity |
Jindal Poly Films Ltd owns the new BOPP line at its sites in Brindisi, Italy, and LaGrange, Ga., will be complete by mid-2017. The new lines... |
2016/06/16 |
Kashima naphtha cracker to be restarted by Mitsubishi Chemical |
Mitsubishi Chemical is in plans to brought on-stream its naphtha cracker following a maintenance turnaround. The company is likely to resume... |
2016/05/26 |
No. 1 aromatics plant to brought on-stream by FCFC |
Formosa Chemical and Fibre Corp (FCFC) is likely to restarts its No. 1 aromatics plant following a maintenance turnaround. The plant is expe... |
2016/05/16 |
Fort McMurray wildfire cuts production |
Market confident, so far, that oil sands production will come back quickly. Several oil sands companies are shutting down their operations a... |
2016/05/03 |
Invista Successfully Starts Up Facility For Production of HMD in Shanghai |
Invista has successfully started up a new 215 kta hexamethylene diamine (HMD) facility at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China. The... |
2016/04/18 |
China Impose Antidumping duty on acrylic fiber imports from Japan, South Korea and Turkey |
China's recent decision to impose antidumping duty on acrylic fiber imported from Japan, South Korea and Turkey will have limited impact on... |
2016/04/13 |
Sumitomo Upgrading Naphtha Storage At PCS Jurong Island, Singapore |
Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS) today announced that it plans to build naphtha import facilities in Jurong Island, Singapore. P... |