Industry: Commodity plastics

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Going to India – India is currently the land of opportunity for new and innovative petrochemicals and plastics developments. However, the outside opinion of India is much influenced by Reliance’s operations, plans, and forecasts. There is a whole world out there […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers –The Shift of Basic R&D to India and China – Dr. Balaji B. Singh The polymer industry unanimously decided to shift the basic R&D functions to China and/or India. Both China and India, without a doubt, offer a better Intellectual capita/ R&D dollar. The shift, last […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers –The Shift of Basic R&D to India and China – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Chemical Market Resources Inc. just completed the FlexPO2006 conference in Singapore. The conference was a roaring success. After the last four years of languishing in depressing North American polyolefins prospects, no innovations, […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Conferences serve a vital role in keeping up with the latest developments and interacting with colleagues who have the same goals and objectives in mind. We don’t understand what it is with the organizations. The marketing/salespeople who have the money are […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Disappearing Giants of Polyolefins and Elastomers – With the recent disappearance of Amoco-BP-Innovene, another giant bit the dust. The difference this time – Innovene a much-tooted polyolefins spin-off of BP-Amoco did not even survive the first anniversary of their inauguration. We […]

My Turn – Comments on Global Polyolefins & Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Welcome to 2006 – May the New Year bring peace and prosperity – traditionally associated with a peak year. The argument from most of the pundits is not whether this is a peak year for petrochemicals, but how long it will […]

Qatar Petrochemical and Total plan petrochemicals complex Qatar Petrochemical Company announced the signing of a contract with Total to build a petrochemical plant at a cost of $1.2 billion to produce polyethylene in the state. Qatar Petrochemical Company Limited will own 63 percent of the project while Total would own 36 percent and Qatar Petroleum […]

Basell and Braskem sign Spherilene® process development agreement Basell Polyolefine GmbH and Braskem S.A. announced the signing of a cooperation agreement for the development of polyethylene grades produced using Basell’s proprietary Spherilene gas-phase technology. Under the agreement, joint development of new and improved Spherilene polyethylene resins will be carried out in Brazil at Braskem facilities […]

Tasnee Petrochemicals and Basell to build an integrated polyethylene complex in Saudi Arabia National Petrochemical Industrialization Company (also known as Tasnee Petrochemicals) and Basell have signed an agreement with respect to building a new integrated polyethylene complex at Al-Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia. The complex will consist of a gas cracker and two 400 […]

Chemicals & polyolefins producers and other companies report positive fourth-quarter earnings Dow Chemical Dow Chemical announced its fourth-quarter earnings. The company had a total sales for the fourth quarter of 2004 of $10.9 billion, up 31% compared to 4Q 2003. Overall 2004 sales increased to $40.2 billion, 23% higher than in 2003 and a new […]

Dow commercializes first plant For VERSIFY® plastomers & elastomers The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) announced the successful start-up of the first commercial plant for its new family of specialty propylene-ethylene copolymers, VERSIFY® Plastomers and Elastomers, in Tarragona, Spain. According to the company, the Versify product range combines Dow’s strength in catalyst and process technology as […]

DuPont Dow records first sales of new ENGAGE® grades DuPont Dow Elastomers reported the first commercial sales of ENGAGE polyolefin elastomer ethylene butene grades to the automotive TPO, plastics modification, and footwear markets. The company introduced 4 new grades of ENGAGE based on ethylene butene in August for these markets along with the compounding, extrusion, […]