Keyword: petrochemical industry

Books

Petrochemicals & EPCA: A Passionate Journey

20.11.2016 - Petrochemicals are currently the biggest of the industrial chemicals sectors, accounting in 2016 for 40 percent of the global chemicals market of around €2.65 trillion. And...

News

Talke Wins Unipetrol PE Logistics Contract

22.06.2016 - Germany’s Talke has won a contract to build a logistics facility for Unipetrol in Litvinov, Czech Republic, to cater for the additional volumes from the new PE plant being built at...

News

NPC Executive Says Iran Petchems to be Expanded

13.11.2015 - Major European chemical manufacturing companies, including BASF, are ready to transfer technology and invest in Iran’s petrochemical industry if the conditions are right, the...

Markets & Companies

Biohybrid Chemistry Cluster

28.10.2015 - Since the discovery of large oil reserves in the late 1850s, Ontario’s chemical industry has steadily grown, turning the province into a global hub for the petrochemical industry...

Sites & Services

Canada As The World’s Green Global Leader

31.08.2015 - Renewing Possibility — What is green chemistry? Simply put, it is chemicals made from renewable resources. It is not a new concept. In 1941, Henry Ford unveiled a “field-grown”...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Weathering Through Market Storms

08.06.2015 - With the plunge in oil prices, big operators’ oil & gas capital spending is coming under increased scrutiny. Therefore, engineering and construction companies (E&Cs) have a greater...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Mega Projects and Complete Packages

08.06.2015 - Sluggish growth, a number of regional conflicts and falling prices in global commodity markets had a major impact on the business climate in the chemical plant manufacturing sector...

Strategy & Management

Mastering the Demographic Time Bomb

26.11.2014 - Organizations are reliant on their ability to embrace expertise and achieve competitive differentiation. However, the process industries are sitting on a 'demographic time bomb'...