IDEMITSU

More SPS capacity comes onstream / Malaysia home to second production site

BIO-ABS

Alliance to create renewable styrenics supply chain using Neste's RE / Ineos Styrolution launches bio-attributed ABS

MITSUI CHEMICALS

PP compounding starts in the Netherlands / Continued demand for automotive lightweighting

PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS

Refinery and PP production start up in Vietnam / Chandra Asri plans new polyolefin complex in Indonesia

MITSUI CHEMICALS

Japanese plastics company establishes European compounding base in the Netherlands / Start-up in 2020

POLYMER PRICES

China Standard Thermoplastics October 2017: Prices of most types decreased / Low demand / High inventory levels

POLYMER PRICES

China Standard Thermoplastics August 2017: Prices up for most commodities / Supported by low supply and recovering demand / Styrene notations up after plant accident in South Korea

MITSUI CHEMICALS

Global capacity hike of 5% for automotive PP compounds / New plants to start up in 2017

IDEMITSU

Raising syndiotactic polystyrene output

IDEMITSU KOSAN

Agreement to transfer PPS to Lion Idemitsu Composites

VIETNAM

Plastic product exports grow 10% January-May / New PP resin supply from Nghi Son Refinery project in 2017 / Import tariff on PP resins proposed

DOW

New specialty plastics plants to be built on US Gulf Coast / Cheap shale gas-derived feedstock

MITSUI

Ethylene cutbacks and HDPE plant closure in Chiba / Responding to weak demand in Japan and competition from Middle East and China

VIETNAM

New petrochemicals projects to stimulate plastics growth / More capacities to come on stream by 2015 / Sector in need of reconstruction and liberalisation