VERSALIS

Elastomers joint venture with Honam Petrochemical / Raising Asian profile

VERSALIS

New office in Shanghai / Licensing and business partnerships in Asia / Joint venture agreement with Petronas

BIOPLASTICS

Renewable route to butadiene / Versalis, Novamont and Genomatica cooperate

ITALY

One of the weakest links in the European industrial chain / Plastics machinery performs below average / Polymer production shrinking / Company formerly known as Polimeri to move more into specialities

ITALY

Visitor numbers at leading plastics fair “Plast” down slightly / Share of Turkish, eastern European attendees grows / Excellent fair structure / Italy's plastics machinery sector under pressure

POLIMERI EUROPA

Eni subsidiary changes name to Versalis / Part of strategic realignment

VINYLS ITALIA

Deal with Industrie Generali officially inked / PVC production now set to resume in Q1 2012

PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS

No PE force majeure at Polimeri Europa / Explosion takes out cracker and downstream units

VINYLS ITALIA

Eni in supply agreement for Ravenna PVC / Sale said to be imminent / Vegetable oils at Porto Marghera?

POLIMERI EUROPA

Realignment towards higher-value products / Plans to invest EUR 1.6 bn up to 2016 / Huge reconstruction in Sicily

GENOMATICA

Cooperating with Novamont on bio-based butanediol / Commercial production scheduled to kick off in late 2012 / Inroads into renewable butadiene

VINYLS ITALIA

Prospects dim for preserving PVC chain at Porto Marghera and Porto Torres / Hope for Ravenna

ITALY

Petrochemical managers indicted on environmental charges at Porto Torres / Trial set for December

POLYMER PRICES

Standard thermoplastics in June 2011: Price cuts go beyond cost reductions / Notations down across the board / Special offers widely available / More reductions expected in July

ENI

Follow-up: Polimeri Europa and Novamont establish new bio-based chemical complex / EUR 500m investment

ENI

Polimeri Europa subsidiary creates bioplastics joint venture with Novamont / New EUR 500m hub to be built in ailing Porto Torres / A new global plastics player in the making?

VINYLS ITALIA

No payments to date by Gita investment fund / Deadline extended to 27 April / No alternative in sight

PEOPLE

Daniele Ferrari appointed new CEO of Polimeri Europa

VINYLS ITALIA

Swiss fund to present final bid on 15 February / Plans to upgrade and expand PVC capacity

VINYLS ITALIA

Swiss-based fund signs MOU to take over former Ineos arm in Italy / PVC output to resume in Q1?

VINYLS ITALIA

Eni and Syndial in talks with Swiss investment fund

VINYLS ITALIA

Industrie Generali and Swiss fund bid for parts of Vinyls Italia / Speculation on feedstock units

VINYLS ITALIA

Dioki only interested in PVC lines not VCM or chlorine chains / Further round table discussions

VINYLS ITALIA

Ministry publishes new tender for takeover

VINYLS ITALIA

Croatia's Dioki interested in PVC, chlorine chain / New tender to be published at the end of August