Tokyo, Feb 8, 2012 - (JCN) - Mitsui Chemicals Inc. will be increasing by 1,000 tons its hydroquinone production at its Iwakuni-Ohtake Works facility. The expansion is in line with the growing demand...
ORPC has two refineries - one in the port of Mina al-Fahal with a capacity of 106,000 b/d, and the other in Sohar, 116,400 b/d. The Mina al-Fahal plant meets the bulk of...
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here are some of the top stories from ICIS Asia and the Middle East for the week ended 13 January 2012 (Please click on the link to read the full text) [1]OUTLOOK...
HEADNOTE EQUIPMENT Tire manufacturers say that an ongoing shortage of component materials - which is expected to continue through 2012 and beyond - com- bined with soaring global demand and logistics costs, has...
DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/be94b6/styrene_butadiene) has announced the addition of the "Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) Global Market to 2020 - Demand for Solution-Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S-SBR) Increasing In-line with Uptake of High-Performance...
DUBLIN -- Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bfc484/all_other_miscella) has announced the addition of Supplier Relations US, LLC's new report "All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its International Trade [2012...
US Wesley Busch Houston Several factors could affect the US styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) market in 2012. These include feedstock cost movements, global supply-demand fundamentals, the global economic outlook and US politics. The...
DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ac4322/asia_pacific_styre) has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report "Asia Pacific Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) Industry Outlook to 2015 - Market Size, Company Share, Price Trends, Capacity Forecasts...
Polystyrene (PS) markets in Latin America are expected to have a steady performance in 2012, with stable production capacity and lower feedstock costs. The problem for PS producers has been excess capacity for...
Styrene brian balboa houston The global economic uncertainty that has developed in 2011 is causing mixed outlooks from North American styrene participants. Producers are mostly optimistic, while some market participants are taking a...
HEADNOTE Keywords East Asian IT industry, production network structure, supply chain, Japanese firms CHANGES IN GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR JAPANESE MANUFACTURERS Japanese manufacturing, under pressure from trade friction and a strong yen, has shifted...
The Air Force has developed a small rubber plug that could shave $20 million from lifecycle costs over the course of the F-22 program. The fighter aircraft is prone to cracks that develop...
The Flex-I-Liner CC-PY12B non-metallic mobile pump/tank cart from Vanton Pump & Equipment Corp. is designed to transfer wastewater and caustic/acidic chemicals with no corrosion, and ultrapure fluids with no contamination. All fluid-contact surfaces...
Company Analysis GAIL has ambitions to be a highly efficient integrated gas company, with interests from field development and production, through national transmission and imports, to distribution and allied industries such as petrochemicals....
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By Helen Yan BD is the feedstock for SBR and BR, major raw materials used to make tyres. SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Butadiene (BD) prices in Asia may rise above $3,000/tonne (€2,310/tonne) in January as traders...
Tokyo, Dec 23, 2011 - (JCN) - Asahi Kasei Chemicals will be building a second solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) plant in Singapore. The new facility, with a capacity of 50,000 tons/year, will be...
* Capacity to increase to 80,000 tons per year * Second Kashima expansion in five years TOKYO -- ExxonMobil Yugen Kaisha (EMYK) announced today that Japan Butyl Co. Ltd. (JBC) will expand the...
DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/af1d37/nitrile_rubber_nb) has announced the addition of the "Nitrile Rubber (NBR): 2011 World Market Outlook and Forecast" report to their offering. This study aims to present a full picture...
TOKYO (ICIS)--Japan's exports of three primary resins, namely low density polyethylene (LDPE), polypropylene (PP) and polystyrene (PS), fell in November year on year because of a strong currency and easing market conditions in...