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2021/03/25 |
Vietnam’s PP supplies to remain tight in March |
Vietnam's polypropylene (PP) supplies are expected to remain tight in March because of reduced domestic production and tightening import ava... |
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2021/03/11 |
ExxonMobil Announces Job Reductions At Singapore Manufacturing Complex |
ExxonMobil announced that it will cut around 300 positions at the company’s integrated refining and petrochemical manufacturing complex in S... |
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2021/02/18 |
Ube Temporarily Suspends Production At Ube-Fujimagari Ammonia Facility |
Ube Industries has temporarily suspended ammonia production at its Ube-Fujimagari factory in Yamaguchi, Japan, following the discovery of eq... |
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2021/01/28 |
Lotte Chemical Planning to Purchase JSR’s Elastomer Production Plants |
Lotte Chemical Co. is planning to acquire the Elastomer Division of JSR Corp. for an undisclosed amount. JSR has solution styrene-butadiene... |
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2021/01/07 |
Cangzhou Dahua starts up new PC plant in China |
China's Cangzhou Dahua New Material has announced that it has started up its new polycarbonate (PC) plant at Cangzhou in Hebei province. The... |
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2020/12/31 |
Ineos Styrolution Starts Construction On World-Scale ABS Plant in Ningbo |
Ineos Styrolution has broken ground for a new world-scale acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plant in Ningbo, China. The 600 kta ABS unit... |
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2020/12/17 |
SM Prices Gain in Asia |
SM prices decrease a rise in Asia. FOB Korea SM prices were assessed at USD 880 per ton, a decrease of USD 20 per ton WoW. CFR China SM pric... |
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2020/12/03 |
Fire at Tjeldbergodden methanol plant extinguished |
Equinor ASA is investigating a fire that broke out on Dec. 2 in a compressor house of its 900 kta methanol plant at its Tjeldbergodden indus... |
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2020/11/26 |
Oriental Energy Adding Fourth Chinese PDH Unit Based on C3 Oleflex Process |
Honeywell UOP announced that Oriental Energy will utilize its C3 Oleflex technology for a fourth propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in China... |
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2020/11/19 |
Asia Phenol and Acetone ASP Skyrocket |
Asia phenol and acetone participants have been rattled by reduced supply, with South Korea’s Yeosu-based LG Chemical’s production heard to h... |