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11.05.2015 GERMAN PLASTICS PRODUCTION  Slight reduction in output in 2014 / Market's current zigzag movements prove exhausting

11.05.2015 DOW  Chlor-alkali merger with Olin to cost up to 1,750 Dow jobs / Annual savings of USD 330m expected

07.05.2015 BASF  First Asian PA polymerisation unit inaugurated at Shanghai / Feedstock from Invista likely

06.05.2015 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  Versalis lifts FM for PE from Dunkirk

05.05.2015 EUROPEAN POLYETHYLENE MARKET  Structural changes becoming painfully visible / Consolidations cut down European production / Weak euro makes imports unaffordable / Customs duties provide an additional damper / Plastics converters pay the bill

04.05.2015 DOW  Polyether polyols plant starts up in Thailand / Up to 200,000 t of Asian capacity added

04.05.2015 YUNNAN YUNTIANHUA PETROCHEMICAL  Building new PP production facility in Yunnan / “Unipol” license from W.R. Grace

30.04.2015 INTERVIEW  “Plethora of FM announcements difficult to comprehend” / IK general manager Ulf Kelterborn on the current situation

30.04.2015 EUROPEAN POLYAMIDE MARKET  Polymer consumption reaches about 1m t/y / Automotive industry as main driver / Production capacities difficult to distinguish / Independent compounders make up one-third of the market / AWJ study

30.04.2015 CELLULAC  Investment in new Irish lactic acid plant specified / Initial start-up in Q1 2016 / Most output to be exported

29.04.2015 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  Total announces force majeure for polypropylene due to shortage of C3 in Antwerp / Allocation quotas uncertain

29.04.2015 BIOME BIOPLASTICS  Launching GBP 3m development programme for industrial-scale production of bioplastics based on lignin / Feasibility study on extracting organic chemicals from lignocellulose

29.04.2015 EVONIK  German superabsorbent polymers application technology centre inaugurated

28.04.2015 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  Total announces force majeure for Antwerp cracker

28.04.2015 US FEEDSTOCK MARKETS  Latest updates on new cracker projects / Thailand's PTT plans to launch ethylene production in Ohio / Braskem apparently getting cold feet in West Virginia

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