| 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. ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| United States >> 5/16/2013 - Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) was awarded a contract from Sasol North America, Inc. (Sasol) to provide Front End Engineering Design (FEED) services for a 4... |
| Oman >> 5/14/2013 - Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) plans to conduct a study for a proposed steam cracker plant to produce polypropylene and polyethylene as part of its business development p... |
| Egypt >> 4/2/2013 - Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) has been jointly awarded with ENPPI, an engineering company under the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum, a contract to build a 4... |
