May 23, 2023
Employment in U.S. plastic resin production declined from 60,400 positions in Sep. 2022 to 58,200 in February 2023, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics republished...
May 23, 2023
Officials from Latin America´s biggest petrochemical company Braskem, also owner of an ethylene-polyethylene complex in Mexico and also the biggest polypropylene producer in North...
May 10, 2023
Shell officials said during the company earnings discussion on May 8, 2023 that the start up of the ethylene and polyethylene complex with 1.6 million tonnes of annual capacity of...
May 10, 2023
Dow, one of the world´s biggest petrochemical companies and based in Midland, Michigan, has resorted to the elimination of 2,000 positions this year as the company faces challenges...
Apr 24, 2023
The availability of workers to help build new petrochemical plants or participate in maintenance work is seen early in the second quarter of 2023 as tight, with some key construction...
Apr 23, 2023
U.S. plastic resin prices appear set to move closer in what is left of 2023 to lower prices elsewhere in the world, particularly after the North American market started to feel the...
Apr 7, 2023
Braskem, Latin America´s biggest petrochemical company and the top polypropylene producer in North America, projects that within about three years what are now excess of supply of...
