United States >> 11/16/2020 - Sasol announced our LDPE unit reached beneficial operation on 15 November 2020. The LDPE unit is the seventh and final Lake Charles Chemicals Complex unit to come online. The LCCP is now 100 percent c... |
Iran >> 2/10/2020 - A contract was signed between Petrochemical Research and Technology Company (PRTC) and Tabriz Petrochemical Company for building Iran’s first heavy polyethylene plant. ... |
Iran >> 12/8/2019 - Diversification of the production of polyethylene terephthalate chain is one of the key priorities of Tondguyan Petrochemical Company, which will be realized in the near future. ... |
United States >> 10/17/2017 - ExxonMobil Chemical Company has commenced production on the first of two new 650,000 tons-per-year high-performance polyethylene lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The full project, p... |
Australia >> 9/8/2017 - Santos has announced that, together with Origin, it had signed a new agreement continuing its support for the manufacturing industry through the supply of ethane gas to Qenos, Australia’s sole produce... |
Saudi Arabia >> 4/27/2017 - Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) announced the startup of its fourth and final polyethylene unit, the High Pressure Low Density Polyethylene (HP-LDPE) Train. This marks a significant milestone for the... |
Oman >> 4/4/2017 - Orpic, the nation’s refining and petrochemicals flagship, has set up a dedicated unit to market the prodigious volumes of polymers that will come on stream when its $6.4 billion Liwa Plastics Industri... |
United States >> 9/9/2016 - LyondellBasell, one of the world's largest plastics, chemical and refining companies, has selected its La Porte, Texas, manufacturing complex as the site for a new High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Pla... |
United States >> 7/29/2016 - LyondellBasell has made the final investment decision to build a High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Plant on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The plant will have an annual capacity of 1.1 billion pounds (500,000 me... |
Mexico >> 4/7/2016 - Braskem announces that Idesa Braskem, its joint venture with the Mexican group Idesa, reached a major milestone with the production of the first batch of polyethylene petrochemical complex in Mexico. ... |
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United States >> 11/30/2015 - Shell Chemical LP (Shell) announces the final investment decision to increase Alpha Olefins (AO) production at its chemical manufacturing site in Geismar, Louisiana, making the site the largest AO pro... |
Russia >> 5/27/2015 - Six new film grades of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) manufactured by SIBUR’s Tomsk facility have been successfully tested by key consumers and added to the company’s offering. ... |
India >> 2/6/2015 - In continuation of its commitment towards providing value added polymer grades to Indian polymer industry, IndianOil launched a high productivity HDPE grade, Propel HDPE 080M60, for injection moulding... |
Kuwait >> 1/3/2015 - EQUATE Petrochemical Company, Kuwait’s first international petrochemical joint-venture, announced the successful completion of its plants’ Turnaround (TA) and the first phase of the polyethylene plant... |
Iran >> 12/17/2014 - Iran has joined the group of countries authorized to issue license for the production of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), the head of Petrochemical Research and Technology Company said. ... |
Russia >> 4/16/2014 - POLIEF, SIBUR's subsidiary, has completed its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) production expansion project, increasing its capacity from 140 ktpa to 210 ktpa. ... |
United States >> 10/3/2013 - Technip and Zachry Industrial, in a partnership called Gulf Coast Partners, have been awarded a substantial contract to design and build two Polyethylene Plants for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company L... |
Czech Republic >> 10/3/2013 - INEOS Technologies is pleased to announce that it has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of medium density and high density polyethylene to Unipetrol RPA at its cracker complex locate... |
China >> 7/11/2013 - INEOS Technologies is pleased to announce that it has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of medium density and high density polyethylene to CNOOC Oil and Petrochemical Company Limited... |
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Canada >> 5/16/2013 - Technip was awarded by NOVA Chemicals Corporation the detail engineering, and procurement services contract for the Polyethylene 1 expansion project located at their Joffre site near Red Deer in Alber... |