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Polymer News On May-2-2002

An unplanned outage reported at Formosa~s 900 kt/annum cracker in Taiwan

May 2, 2002

Having occurred just a day before the start of the long Chinese labour holidays and hence failing to have any significant impac...


Mr. Swapan Bhowmick, President of Polymer section at Haldia - appointed as acting CEO of the West Bengal petrochemical major

May 2, 2002

According to market sources, the president of the Polymer division at Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL), Mr. Swapan Bhowmick has...


West Bengal producer Haldia rolls over PP and PE prices for May

May 2, 2002

A distributor of West Bengal petrochemical producer Haldia conveyed to the polymerupdate team a short while ago that like Relia...


Bullish market sentiments and rising PTA feedstock prices prompt Reliance to increase PET resin rates for May lifting

May 2, 2002

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Crude prices decline sharply on rising inventories in the U.S

May 2, 2002

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Reliance Industries Ltd announces roll over in PP and PE grades for May. Hikes PVC prices by Re 1/kg, basic

May 2, 2002

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Joining Honam and LG in the race for Hyundai Petrochemicals is SK Corp of South Korea

May 2, 2002

According to industry sources in South Korea, following Honam Petrochemicals and LG Chemicals, SK Corp. yesterday declared its ...


GAIL announces price reduction in HDPE and LLDPE grades for May

May 2, 2002

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Ciba Specialty Chemicals expands its product range through acquisition of DSM Melapur flame retardants

May 2, 2002

Ciba Specialty Chemicals has acquired the flame-retardant technology of DSM. The acquisition of DSM Melapur, a leading range of...


Indian PS producers revise prices for May lifting

May 2, 2002

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Styrene plant start ups reported from Asia too as Idemitsu confirms restart of 210 kt/annum Chiba facility

May 2, 2002

Referring to a polymerupdate news feed of today entitled, ~ Korean producer says that a further downward correction in either ...


Shell and Nova lift force majeure at their SM and PS plant~s in Europe

May 2, 2002

Just moments after a polymerupdate team member~s discussion with an SM/ PS producer from Korea wherein the producer had referr...


Naphtha prices in Asia plunge to levels of USD 235/mt CNF Japan

May 2, 2002

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Korean producer says that a further downward correction in either SM or PS prices may not be required

May 2, 2002

With China on their labour holidays a polymerupdate team member spoke with a large Korean SM/ PS producer early this morning in...