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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

25.05.2016 FRANCE  Police slowly clear union barricades blocking refineries / Public mood flags / Union threatens to extend strikes to rail and nuclear plants / More force majeure declarations

25.05.2016 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  PE, PP: Ineos declares force majeure for Lavéra and Sarralbe

25.05.2016 FRANCE  Petrochemical output increasingly threatened by strike / Most refineries affected / Many FM declarations / Minister says the country has been taken hostage

25.05.2016 FOOD PACKAGING  Project to develop bioplastic packaging that helps extend shelf life / Sensors display when food not fit to eat / Four prototypes

25.05.2016 PETRONAS  Engineering contractors appointed for Malaysia LLDPE and PP projects / Start-up expected by early 2019

23.05.2016 CHEMOURS  Commercial start-up operations at Mexican titanium dioxide plant underway

20.05.2016 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  PP: FCC outage at Unipetrol in Kralupy / Refinery completely switched off / No propylene for Litvinov

20.05.2016 UBE / MITSUBISHI RAYON  Planned merger between UMG joint venture and JSR subsidiary Techno Polymer / Japanese ABS industry continues to consolidate

19.05.2016 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  PE, PP, PS: Strike leads Total to declare force majeure for Gonfreville / Other sites also affected

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