- Looking back: will lessons learned from CCPA's
past fortify the future of Canadian chemical
industries?
Looking back, the Canadian chemical industry was a complex sector composed of many different components. To this day, the industry's products--petrochemicals, inorganics, and specialties-represent a widely divergent collection of manufacturing processes and end-uses. Chemical companies in Canada are: * both Canadian- and foreign-owned; * large, medium-sized, and small; * functioning ......
- KUWAIT - KPC Market Shares East Of Suez.
KPC is to have refineries east of Suez with a total capacity of about 400,000 b/d before 2020, together with storage facilities and other logistics, and retail units for 400,000 b/d of petroleum products including LPG produced in Kuwait for export. KPC has been negotiating new JV refineries and retail ......
- Purchasing chemicals from India: Lots of opportunities
India is the fourth largest economy in the world, after the U.S., China and Japan, and the country is beginning to use its financial muscle to export products worldwide, including chemicals. According to K. Ravimurthy, a senior analyst with ARC Advisory Group, Bangalore, India, the development of the Indian chemical ......
- Eastman-Sinopec deal shakes oxo market. (International
News).
Eastman Chemical and Sinopec Qilu Petrochemcial Company have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture to produce Texanol ester alcohol and TXIB plasticiser in China. The oxo plant will be built at Sinopec Qilu's existing site in Zibo, Shangdong province, 400km southeast of Beijing. Construction of the US$30m facility, ......
- CIC Welcomes CHEM!
CHEM!, Canada's newest chemical industry publication, will play an important role in helping to educate Canada's chemical professionals about the industry as a whole. In May 2000, Canadian industry was introduced to a new chemical trade publication. This latest Canadian publication will play an important role in Canada beyond the ......
- China: The right (petro)chemistry
HEADNOTE A host of foreign-backed petrochemical projects is competing to be first in China. By Peter List To foreign participants, developing petrochemical projects in China may seem as formidable as building the Great Wall, but the process has begun to ramp up for several multibillion dollar projects, including the largest ......