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CHINA 

Standard plastics stagnate / Growth of 6% for engineering thermoplastics in 2012 / Market dominated by foreign capacities / Growing surpluses with PC and POM / Another grand "Chinaplas" comes to an end

24.05.2013 The 27th Chinaplas, held in Guangzhou, has come to end and the Plasteurope.com editors and journalists in attendance came away with the impression that sustainability and environmentally-friendly plastics applications are more than just buzz words for the Chinese, they are serious aspects for the fu...

23.05.2013 POLYMER PRICES  Polyurethane feedstocks May 2013: Solid benzene price stabilises MDI / TDI and Polyole down / Public holidays slow down orders / Demand below expectations / Increase effect Upstream

22.05.2013 POLYMER PRICES  China Standard Thermoplastics April/May 2013: Mixed bag of perspectives / Ethylene pricing continues depressed / Largely stable pricing / Some slight upward movements / Downstream processing capacity utilization 70%

21.05.2013 CHINAPLAS 2013 More than 115,000 visitors expected / Focus on high-quality but green products / 2,900 exhibitors from 38 countries

17.05.2013 LYONDELLBASELL  European re-structuring includes German HDPE site / Under-performing production line to be mothballed late 2013

Year in Review

Life is a roller coaster ride, the European plastics industry finds again in 2012 / Forces majeures and consolidation / North-South profitability gap grows as the shadow of Middle East and China shrinks

A year ago, we speculated about the advice old man 2011 might have for baby 2012: “Keep your head down, kid”. That grown-up baby may now be giving the same advice to its successor as it bows out, battle-scarred and undoubtedly grateful that the New Year is limited to one term.

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24.05.2013 TOTAL  Planned EUR 1 bn modernisation of Antwerp refinery and petchems site / Closure of uncompetitive PE unit by end-2014

24.05.2013 INEOS NITRILES Joint venture with Tianjin Bohai Chemical to build world-scale acrylonitrile facility in China / Initial capacity of 260,000 t/y to come on stream in 2016

24.05.2013 ELIX POLYMERS  Velox appointed to distribute of polymer modifiers in Central Europe

24.05.2013 PLASTIC FANTASTIC Bless the beasts and their artificial horns

24.05.2013 SPLAST Polish company expands injection moulding capacity

24.05.2013 FAIRS Poland: 17,000 visitors attend “Plastpol”

23.05.2013 POLYMER PRICES  China Engineering Thermoplastics April/May 2013: Feedstock prices generally soft / Butadiene finally wakes up / Pricing stable to slight drop

23.05.2013 BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE Innovation centre opens in Shanghai / Expands global network

23.05.2013 ASCEND  UOP licenses C3 Oleflex process to Ascend in US / New plant to be built on Gulf Coast

23.05.2013 BRASKEM Resins company adds LDPE alternative to its green plastics portfolio

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