12.01.2018
- Turkish company Kordsa, a tire cord specialist, broke ground last month on its polyester expansion project in Izmit, Turkey. The additional 7,000 t/y of polyester yarn production...
22.12.2017
- Three Indonesian firms – Pertamina, Chandra Asri and Pupuk Indonesia – have signed an agreement in principle with local mining group Bukit Asam to look at the feasibility of...
22.11.2017
- Saudi Arabian propylene and PP producer Advanced Petrochemical has signed a Heads of Agreement with Global Company for Downstream Industries (GDI) to develop a project to produce...
08.11.2017
- Major polyolefins producer Borealis is to undertake a feasibility study on a series of PP capacity increases during the next nine months. The study will assess a program of...
06.11.2017
- SK Global Chemical, part of SK Innovation, is buying another asset from Dow Chemical, this time its polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) business. The acquisition includes all production...
25.09.2017
- SABIC has inaugurated a new polypropylene (PP) pilot plant at Geleen, the Netherlands, and at the same time announced a new investment in a state-of-the-art PP extrusion facility...
09.08.2017
- The board of directors at Indian Oil has approved the expansion of its Gujarat refinery, which will also incorporate units to produce propylene and PP. The refinery’s crude oil...
02.08.2017
- US technology and chemical company W.R. Grace has granted a license for its Unipol PP process technology to Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC), a 50:50 joint venture between...
