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09.06.2016 SHELL  Green light for US shale gas-fed cracker complex in Pennsylvania / Downstream units for 1.6m t/y of PE / Location close to North American plastics customers

09.06.2016 EVONIK  German producer plans to cease PMMA casting activities in Austria / Gramatneusiedl facility to close

09.06.2016 LANXESS  Leverkusen flame retardant storage facility is expanded

08.06.2016 BASF  US methane-to-propylene plant on hold / Volatile pricing hits shale gas projects

08.06.2016 JUSHI  Confirmation of plan to build 80,000 t/y glass fibre production facility in South Carolina / USD 300m investment

07.06.2016 US BIOPOLYMERS  Demand set to increase by 4.3% annually / Cellulose ethers account for one third of market / Packaging segment benefits from declining PLA prices / Freedonia study

07.06.2016 POLYURETHANE  Ukraine imposes anti-dumping duties on semi-finished PU materials

07.06.2016 SHALE GAS  Non-binding vote to ban fracking passes Scottish Parliament / Ineos “focused on England” / Crotty says Scotland will “miss out”

06.06.2016 STEPAN  Polyester polyols capacity expansion in Poland due on stream in mid-2016

01.06.2016 REPSOL  Tarragona-based mLLDPE line starts operations

01.06.2016 HONEYWELL  Groundbreaking for MTO catalysts line in China / Eight MTO plants licensed as China cut reliance on oil imports

31.05.2016 MITSUI CHEMICALS  Global capacity hike of 5% for automotive PP compounds / New plants to start up in 2017

30.05.2016 EASTMAN  Stake in Primester acetate flake joint venture to be sold to Solvay / Supply agreement sealed

27.05.2016 FRANCE  Strikes widened to include nuclear plants / Refinery blockade hits plastics converters

26.05.2016 SK INNOVATION  New propylene dehydrogenation plant inaugurated in South Korea / Saudi and Kuwaiti partners

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