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Subscribe to one-year propylene oxide monthly market monitoring service till June 30, 2013 and get 3 extra months for free. London, UK (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 Merchant Research and Consulting Ltd. is a truly global specialist in investigating all aspects of the chemical sector and related industries. It has many years of experience and outstanding reputation in researching chemical markets, companies and products worldwide. Merchant Research and Consulting Ltd. has recently launched...
New research report “Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA): 2013 World Market Outlook and Forecast up to 2017” elaborated by Merchant Research & Consulting Ltd. has been recently published by Market Publishers Ltd. London, UK (PRWEB) May 30, 2013 The global demand for ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) increased considerably in the first decade of the 21st century. For instance, the global EVA demand overrode 2.67 million tonnes in 2009, while it was estimated at around 1.4 million tonnes in...
Carbon Dioxide and Natural Gas Converted to Valuable Industrial Chemicals Monmouth Junction, NJ (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Liquid Light, Inc., (http://llchemical.com) today announced the issuance of U.S. patent 8,444,844 entitled “Electrochemical Co-Production of a Glycol and an Alkene Employing Recycled Halide.” Developed by scientists and engineers working at Liquid Light’s Monmouth Junction, NJ research facility, the technology co-produces two chemicals, such as ethylene glycol and...
HOUSTON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Westlake Chemical Corporation (NYSE: WLK) declared today a regular quarterly dividend of 18.75 cents per share. The dividend will be payable on June 19, 2013, to stockholders of record on June 4, 2013. This is the 35(th) successive quarterly dividend that Westlake has declared since completing its initial public offering in August 2004. Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK) Westlake Chemical Corporation is a...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced that it will shut down a high density polyethylene (HDPE) unit in Wesseling, Germany in the third quarter of 2013. The 100 KT per year unit is among the smallest and least efficient of the LyondellBasell HDPE units in Europe. The company has sufficient HDPE capacity to meet customer needs from its larger scale facilities. "LyondellBasell continues to take definitive steps to reorganize...
HOUSTON, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. prices for ethylene, the chemical building block for many plastic consumer goods from toys to lawn furniture, reached their lowest level since early December in early April, rebounded slightly but then couldn't sustain the upward momentum and ended the month several cents below the level seen on April 1, according to PetroChem Wire. Ethylene prices on the U.S. Gulf Coast, which were just under 61 cents per pound on April 1, fell to 54 cents...
China petrochemical producer to build world's largest unit using UOP methanol-to-olefin technology DES PLAINES, Ill., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that China's Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Co. Ltd. has licensed Honeywell's UOP advanced methanol-to-olefin (MTO) process to convert methanol from gasified coal into key plastics building blocks. It is the fourth licensing win for Honeywell's UOP advanced MTO process...
HOUSTON, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) announced the signing of agreements with TexStar MidStream Services, LP under which TexStar will install two natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation units adjacent to the Corpus Christi, Texas, plant of LyondellBasell affiliate Equistar Chemicals LP. The fractionation units will be capable of processing a combined 63,000 barrels per day of NGLs produced from the Eagle Ford shale into ethane, propane, butanes and...
JOHANNESBURG and LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sasol today announced its placing of a purchase order for the main ethylene compressor trains, a critical long-lead item for the world-scale ethane cracker, from MHI Compressor International Corporation. "The placement of this order has secured vital manufacturing capacity of this specialty equipment before the expected heating of the market. Sasol selected MHI Compressor International Corporation...
