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31.07.2008 SABIC EUROPE  Restructuring at Teesside in UK / Two “unviable” aromatics units to shut / Exit from polyester chain

31.07.2008 DUPONT  New “Vespel” polyimide plant starts in Singapore

29.07.2008 LA SEDA  Talks on merger with Indorama / Result still open / Analysts sceptical

29.07.2008 COMPTEK  Expansion in fluoropolymer compounds

28.07.2008 TICONA  New 20,000 t/y UHMW-PE plant starts up at Nanjing

28.07.2008 PETKIM  New owners to double capacity in five years

25.07.2008 LEL  Turkey's Kemiropa joins European distribution network

24.07.2008 ADDCOMP  Solvay's “Priex” business and assets acquired

24.07.2008 AUTOMOTIVE GLAZING  Polycarbonate consumption to grow by 70% a year up to 2012 / Focus on roof modules, backlites, fixed side windows and design elements / Bayer MS and Sabic IP now in competition

24.07.2008 BASF  Second synthetic waxes plant for Ludwigshafen site

22.07.2008 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  New Middle East projects in the starting blocks / Iran inaugurates “Olefins 10” / Saudi Rabigh complex to begin producing in October

21.07.2008 K-DOW PETROCHEMICALS  New jv with Kuwait takes shape / HQ in US state of Michigan / Financial incentives

18.07.2008 ELASTOGRAN  Systems houses to open in Poland and Slovakia

17.07.2008 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  Dow shuts Terneuzen PS production “temporarily” / Need to restore margins

17.07.2008 CLARIANT  Masterbatch acquisition in North America / Added strength in liquid colours

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