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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
Basell, the global leader in polyolefins’ technology, production and marketing, and Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN), one of the world’s largest manufacturers and marketers of differentiated chemicals and pigments, announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement pursuant to which Basell will acquire Huntsman in a transaction valued at approximately $9.6 billion, including the assumption of debt. More...
June 20, 2007 – Effective July 1, Basell will increase its prices in Europe, Middle East and Africa for its Adflex and reactor grade Hifax products by € 60 per tonne and for its Adsyl products by € 100 per tonne. More...
The president of SIBUR Dmitry Konov and general director of Orenburggazprom Sergey Ivanov have presented the civil-engineering design of a complex on manufacture of polypropylene by capacity of 450 thousand tons per year and polythene capacity of 650 thousand tons per year. This complex will be placed in the Orenburg area. More...
Dutch Dotterbloem Holding B. V. has received the sanction to purchase more than 50 % actions of the largest chemical enterprise of Ukraine - Concern Stirol. More...
Nikolay Yankovsky, Chairman of board of concern Stirol informed that supposes an opportunity of gradual refusal of the enterprise from the Russian raw styrene. More...
In 2006 Carpathneftehim Company (the Ivano-Frankovsk region, Ukraine) has increased manufacture of ethylene in comparison with 2005 on 17 % due to processing easy components of pyrolysis raw materials. More...
The Factory of New Polymers - Senezh plans to occupy not less than 20-25 % of PET market of Russia in 2007, and to increase a share up to 40-45 % in 2009. More...
LUKOIL - Neftehim plans to start in March, 2007 the manufacture of polypropylene by capacity of 120 thousand tons on Stavrolen (Stavropol territory, Budyonnovsk), included in group. More...
RISI economists today responded to the recent news of the Abitibi-Bowater merger, stating their expectation that the North American newsprint market will remain very weak for most of 2007. More...
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