05.06.2015
- Perstorp has been a well-known name in chemistry for over 130 years. Founded in 1881 as a producer of acetic acid and later formalin, the Swedish company went through an eventful...
27.11.2013
- One of Asia's largest chemicals and plastics producers, Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics, is seeking to cash in on the U.S. shale gas boom with its own $2 billion ethane cracker in...
06.11.2013
- Ineos is said to be in the process of restarting its gas-fed cracker at Grangemouth, Scotland. All facilities at the site were put on "cold standby" on October 15 at the height of...
01.10.2013
- Ineos announced what it described as a "survival plan" to keep in operation the petrochemical plant attached to its refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland, involving job cuts and...
03.06.2011
- Formosa Petrochemical said it may reschedule maintenance at the largest of its three naphtha crackers to second-half August from early September if some downstream units are shut...
19.05.2011
- Japan's Idemitsu Kosan said it restarted the naphtha cracker at its Chiba plant, east of Tokyo, on Thursday after scheduled maintenance. The 374,000 tons per year cracker, which...
29.03.2011
- Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan said on Tuesday it shut the naphtha cracker at its Chiba plant, east of Tokyo, on Sunday for maintenance, a little earlier than its original plan...
