ethylene

U.S. resin prices seen moving lower in 2023

Apr 23, 2023

U.S. plastic resin prices appear set to move closer in what is left of 2023 to lower prices elsewhere in the world, particularly after the North American market started to feel the full impact of plants started in recent months, a market analyst for polymers...

Braskem sees global resin markets undersupplied in 2026-2027

Apr 7, 2023

Braskem, Latin America´s biggest petrochemical company and the top polypropylene producer in North America, projects that within about three years what are now excess of supply of basic resins including polyethylene will turn by that time into tightness.

Canadian hydrochemolytic recycling technology developer reports advances in plans; Monoethylene glycol market seen expanding to $43 billion in 2027

Mar 21, 2023

News Briefs

Mexico-based Braskem Idesa sets up venture for new ethane terminal; Huntsman completes sale of dyes, pigment division to Archroma; Braskem runs at reduced rates in Brazil but steady in the U.S.

Mar 6, 2023

News Briefs

Rail union member: more staff, shorter trains may prevent chemical cargo derailments

Feb 20, 2023

The Feb. 3, 2023 derailment of about three dozen rail cars, including five with vinyl chloride monomer (an intermediate for PVC), along the Ohio River, the biggest tributary of the Mississippi by volume, and the ensuing fire for about five days forcing a town...

U.S. producer confident on growth prospects for fluorochemicals and fluoropolymers; Mexico-based ALFA reports declining earnings in fourth quarter 2022; Global ethylene market seen expanding just 2.7% in 2023

Feb 20, 2023

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Plastic resin producers slowly advance projects amid capacity increases, weak demand

Feb 8, 2023

Dow will continue to hold talks with Canadian authorities over incentives in 2023 with a final decision anticipated by year’s end on a project that would include tripling its ethylene and polyethylene capacity in Alberta, Canada. The work was originally...

InterPipeline’s new PDH unit seen running since mid-January in Canada, polypropylene unit rates to be increased to capacity

Jan 23, 2023

InterPipeline was able to start up its propane dehydrogenator (PDH) unit in its propylene-polypropylene complex near Edmonton, Alberta, by mid-January 2023 and this will result in the startup of production at near full capacity of polypropylene.

NOVA Chemicals completes polyethylene and cracker expansion in Ontario, Canada

Jan 9, 2023

NOVA Chemicals, with production assets in Canada and in Louisiana, and owned by Mubadala Investment Co. from Abu Dhabi, announced in late December 2022 the “mechanical completion” of expanded polyethylene and cracking capacity in Sarnia, Ontario, some 65...

Plastic resin prices in Mexico hit two-year low in Jan. 2023 but seen finding support after U.S. Dec. weather event

Jan 9, 2023

Prices offered by distributors in Mexico for pellets made by the biggest U.S. Gulf Coast plants for the most traded plastic resin, polyethylene, showed in the first week of January the lowest levels in about two years, but there was support after the freezing...

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