11.02.2008

A new ecological movement named "Nature sacks" stared in Ukraine. The goal is to reduce PE bags consumption.

19.11.2007

Abusing packages becomes very dangerous to an environment. For a year in Peking the quantity totals 140 thousand tons of the used packages become dust, that makes 3 % from all household dust in city, in Shanghai - 190 thousand tons, 7 % from all household dust. Every year in Peking 2 billion 300 thousand packages, 2 million food boxes, 6,75 million in m2 of a hothouse film is thrown out.

13.04.2007

Manufacture of polymeric pipes in 2006 has grown almost on 22 % in comparison with 2005 and has made 246,15 thousand tons. The capacity of the internal Russian market of polymeric pipes in 2006 has increased for 25,8 % up to 295,44 thousand tons in relation to 2005.

10.04.2007

It will be constructed a complex which will consist from a factory of polypropylene manufacture by capacity of 400 thousand tons per year, polyethylene of low density - by 200 thousand tons one year, linear polyethylene of low density - 200 thousand tons one year and polyethilene of high density - 380 thousand tons one year.

28.03.2007

Minpromenergo informed that in January of the current year the Russian enterprises of the chemical industry have increased manufacture of chemical production in comparison with the similar period of the last year on 13,3 %,.

12.12.2007

Lyon, France – November 29, 2007 – Rhodia Polyamide announces a 150 to 200 €/MT price increase for its Polyamide 6 and 6.6 Technyl® compounds in Europe, Middle East and Africa, effective January 1st, 2008 - or as contracts allow - to help offset rising raw material, transport and energy costs. Rhodia Polyamide strives continuously to counteract escalating costs with productivity programmes and other containment measures. However, the sustained magnitude of costs increases makes this price rise absolutely essential.

10.12.2007

SIBUR company plans to invest 1,9 billion rubles in development of processing polyvinyl chloride within the framework of creation the Russian center of processing PVC in Dzerzhinsk (the Nizhniy Novgorod region) by 2010.

07.12.2007

The factory of plastic container of Netherlands company Schoeller Arca Systems will be open in Ukraine.

05.12.2007

As a result of substantial increase in cost of raw material, expenses at power and logistic the largest world chemical companies one by one declare the increase of the prices for production.

03.12.2007

It is planned to construct a new factory on manufacture ethylene (400 thousand tons one year) and propylene (120 thousand tons one year) on Polymir. The wide spectrum of manufactures will be created also on the basis of these two kinds of raw material.