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Sibur and Reliance Industries (RIL) have partnered to form a joint venture (JV) company named Reliance Sibur Elastomers to produce 100,000tpa of butyl rubber in Jamnagar,...
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Assam Petrochemicals to construct methanol and acetic acid plants
India's Assam Petrochemicals is planning to build methanol and downstream acetic acid (AA) plants in Namrup,...
Sepa fines ExxonMobil for failing to report CO2 emissions
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has fined ExxonMobil £2.8m ($3.3m) for failing to report 33,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from its Mossmorran ethylene plant in Fife,...
Saudi Aramco unit signs MOU with Pertamina for integrated complex in Indonesia
Saudi Aramco Asia Company (SAAC) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with PT Pertamina to assess the economic feasibility of building an integrated refining and...
Shin-Etsu Chemical develops low RI silicone encapsulating material
Shin-Etsu Chemical has developed a new generation of low refractive index (RI) silicone encapsulating...
Tokuyama begins polycrystalline silicon plant second-phase construction
Tokuyama Malaysia, a subsidiary of Tokuyama Corporation, has initiated the second-phase construction of its polycrystalline silicon plant at the Samalaju Industrial Park in...
BioAmber and NatureWorks join forces for new bio-based polymers
NatureWorks and BioAmber have formed a joint venture (JV) company, AmberWorks, to develop and market a new family of performance bio-based compounded...
Honeywell inaugurates new technology centre in India
Honeywell has inaugurated a new technology centre in Gurgaon,...
QP and QAPCO to develop new mega-petrochemical complex
Qatar Petroleum (QP) has entered into a heads of agreement (HOA) with Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) to jointly develop a new mega-petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City,...
Infineum plans to construct new salicylate plant
Infineum, a provider of petroleum additives, is planning to start construction of its new salicylate manufacturing plant at Jurong Island, Singapore, in the first quarter of...
Kao to build new surfactant plant in Indonesia
Kao Indonesia Chemicals, a subsidiary of Kao Corporation, will build a new surfactant production plant at Karawan International Industry City (KIIC), Jakarta, Indonesia, according to president...
Ajinomoto and Toray partner for biobased nylon
Ajinomoto and Toray Industries have joined forces to start joint research for manufacturing the nylon raw material,1,5-pentanediamine (1,5-PD), from the amino acid...
Indian petrochemicals industry to grow at 12-15% annually, says study
The Indian petrochemicals industry is expected to grow at 12-15% annually over the next five years, according to a report from the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India...
AOC, Dow award PO unit contract to Foster Wheeler
Aramco Overseas Company (AOC), a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, and Dow Europe have awarded a contract to Foster Wheeler to develop a propylene oxide (PO) unit at Jubail Industrial City in the...
Eastman Chemical signs licence surface technology deal with Balcas
Balcas and Eastman Chemical have signed a licence agreement that gives Balcas exclusive use of Eastman Cerfis technology to produce moulding and trim products in Ireland and the...
Sabic-Sinopec T&T petrochemical project moves ahead
The Ministry of Energy of Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) will begin talks with a consortium of Sabic and Sinopec on two planned petrochemical plants in the country, according to Energy Minister...
Vietnam's first petrochemical complex moves ahead
The Siam Cement Group (SCG) has entered into a joint venture deal with its Vietnamese and Qatari partners to invest in Vietnam's first petrochemical...
Air Products begins new hydrogen production plant in Netherlands
Air Products and ExxonMobil have inaugurated a new hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam,...
Indian specialty chemical industry could reach $80-100bn by 2020
India's specialty chemical business is expected to grow from $22bn to $80-100bn by 2020, according to a McKinsey & Company...
Honam to set up petrochemical complex in Indonesia
South Korea-based Honam Petrochemical will invest up to $5bn to set up a petrochemical complex in Indonesia in the first quarter of 2013, according to business development managing director...
Sumitomo builds S-SBR manufacturing plant in Singapore
Sumitomo Chemical Asia PTE, a group company of Sumitomo Chemical, is constructing a $140m new solution styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) manufacturing plant in Merbau area of Jurong Island,...
