13.05.2013
- Business - Shell Chemicals held a ground-breaking ceremony last month for the building of facilities for making high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) and ethoxylates at its site in...
11.10.2012
- Tracts of bare ground dot the vast Wilton chemical complex, a reminder of long-demolished plants that bear ghostly witness to the industrial decline of the world's first...
07.09.2011
- Case Study - At Total Petrochemicals polyethylene production plant in Antwerp, the facility wanted to find a way to increase its reliability and stability at the plant. At issue...
21.06.2011
- Exxon Mobil will delay the start-up of its 1 million tons-per-year (tpy) ethylene cracker on Jurong Island in Singapore into next year instead of the end of 2011 due to longer-than...
18.05.2011
- Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), the world's largest chemicals producer by market value, said on Tuesday that it is planning a $1 billion-plus facility in China with China...
11.05.2011
- Boom Region - In 2011, the markets for bio-based materials are continuing to develop dynamically (with annual growth rates of 15-30 %). It is estimated that a global production...
- BASF has started operations at its expanded plant for the production of the biodegradable plastic Ecoflex. Expansion of the existing plant in Ludwigshafen will increase production...
11.08.2010
- Oil major Exxon Mobil is still working with Qatar Petroleum (QP) on a planned $6 billion petrochemicals complex, a spokesman for the U.S. firm said on Tuesday, refuting a media...
