Mar 21, 2022
Brazil-based Braskem, which owns a cracker and polyethylene plant in Mexico that started up over five years ago but has yet to run at full capacity, plans to begin in the second half...
Mar 8, 2022
PTT Global Chemical, one of Thailand´s biggest petrochemical producers, announced in late February it will draft a new air permit request to present to Ohio authorities for a world...
Mar 8, 2022
Mexican state oil company Pemex, which owns six refineries in Mexico as well as the recently transferred Deer Park refinery in Texas, reported in late February that its petrochemical...
Feb 22, 2022
The governments of France and the U.S. announced on Feb. 11, 2022 that they have decided to start work together to seek international accords to reduce plastic waste so that it won´t...
Feb 22, 2022
Honeywell said that in partnership with Italy´s Eni it has developed a bio-naphtha that may replace some hydrocarbon-derived naphtha feedstock.
Feb 7, 2022
North America will see in 2022 startups of new annual production capacity for nearly four million tonnes of polyethylene, the plastic resin most commonly seen shaped as grocery bags or...
Feb 7, 2022
Any new project decisions in 2022 will be evaluated in an environment of ongoing material price increases and supply disruption that has alredy pushed some contractors to propose...
