Keyword: Shin-Etsu Chemical

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New Shintec Cracker up and running on US Gulf

17.02.2020 - Shintech, US subsidiary of Japanese PVC producer Shin-Etsu Chemical – the world’s largest player – has finally started up its long planned 500,000 t/y ethane cracker at its site in...

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Shin-Etsu Invests in Silicones Business

25.09.2018 - Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical will invest 110 billion Yen ($977 million) to expand its silicones business in order to meet rising global demand. The expansion will be implemented in...

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Shintech Builds VCM/PVC Complex in USA

26.07.2018 - Shintech, the US subsidiary of Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical, has started building the first phase of an integrated VCM/PVC complex at a site next to its existing plant in Plaquemine...

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Shin-Etsu Chemical Invests in Silicone

29.10.2015 - Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical is spending altogether 20 billion yen ($166 million) to upgrade silicone output at its two Japanese plants by 2017. At the same time, it will establish a...

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Siltronic Greenshoe Option Fully Exercised

17.06.2015 - With the greenshoe in its initial public offering fully exercised by June 15, former Wacker-Chemie subsidiary Siltronic is now to 42.2% in free float. Total proceeds from the...

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Shintech Going Ahead With $1.4 billion US Gas Cracker

30.04.2015 - Amid discussions of the viability of shale gas-fed petrochemical plants as crude oil prices continue to taper off, at least one US cracker project is definitely going ahead...

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Westlake to Acquire German PVC Producer Vinnolit

29.05.2014 - Private equity investor Advent International has agreed to sell German PVC producer Vinnolit to Houston, Texas-based US petrochemical producer Westlake for €490 million ($668...

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European Commission OKs Ineos / Solvay PVC Merger

09.05.2014 - Following an in-depth review, the European Commission has accepted divestment proposals put forward in March by would-be PVC joint venture partners Ineos and Solvay and approved...