Eastman & Hanwha announce joint venture development & licensing program for ENERGX technology Eastman Chemical Company, through its Voridian division has announced that it has signed a joint development and licensing agreement with Hanwha Chemical Corp. to further enhance Eastman’s proprietary Energx DCX polyethylene (PE) technology and allow Hanwha to sublicense the technology.…
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DuPont Dow Elastomers starts up new 135,000 MT plant for Engage® polyolefin elastomers DuPont Dow Elastomers has announced that in May 2003 it produced the first prime pounds from its new 300 million pounds/135,000 MT per year facility for Engage polyolefin elastomers in Plaquemine, Louisiana. With this new facility on stream, DuPont Dow’s…
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Borealis to invest €200 million in new Borstar polyolefin capacity at Schwechat, Austria Borealis announced its plans to invest €200 million in the construction of a new 350,000 MT/year polyethylene (PE) plant, based on its proprietary Borstar bimodal-PE technology, and a 90,000 MT/year expansion of the existing Borstar polypropylene plant to 300,000 MT/year…
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Basell unveils novel Ziegler-Natta PP catalysts Basell introduced a new Ziegler-Natta catalyst family based on ethyl-benzoate as an internal donor that improves polymer morphology and bulk density. The proprietary ethyl-benzoate catalysts are designed specifically for gas-phase polypropylene processes and are also suitable for liquid-phase polymerization. Basell has developed this catalyst on an advanced…
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BP licenses the Innovene® polypropylene technology line to Sinopec BP and China Petrochemical International Company, a Sinopec Corporation company, have reached an agreement to license BP’s Innovene gas phase polypropylene process technology for the upgrading of Sinopec’s Beijing Yanhua Petrochemical Company Limited Polypropylene manufacturing complex. The plant will produce homopolymers and random copolymers…
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Nova Chemicals outlines business improvement initiatives after the third quarter loss of $65 million Nova Chemical Corporation reported a third-quarter loss of $65 million. Approximately $9 million was attributed to the power interruption – as announced earlier. Approximately $10 million was attributed to from expenses associated with the permanent closure of the polyethylene…
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Borealis joint venture Borouge to expand polyethylene capacity to 580,000 MT/year Borouge, Borealis’ joint venture with ADNOC has announced its plans to expand its existing Borstar capacity and that is considering further expansion to form a world-scale petrochemical complex at Ruwais, Abu Dhabi in the UAE. Building on the successful start-up and first…
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Chevron Phillips Chemical enters into a new licensing agreement with Sinopec to construct a 350,000 MT/year HDPE plant Chevron Phillips Chemical Company announced that it has licensed its slurry loop technology to China Petrochemical International Company Ltd. (Sinopec) for the construction of a new 350,000 metric tons per year high-density polyethylene plant. The…
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BP licenses Innovene technology for Sasol Polymers polypropylene expansion BP and Sasol Polymers announced the signing of an agreement to license BP’s Innovene polypropylene process technology for the expansion of Sasol’s polypropylene facilities located in Secunda, Republic of South Africa. The new plant will have an annual capacity of 300,000 MT/year, produce homopolymers, random…
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