UPDATE - REMAT

MOL shuts down operations at Hungarian polyolefin recycler

MOL

Test run of ISCC-Plus production in Hungary completed / Target is high-end PE, PP from mixed plastics waste

VIONEO

Fossil-free plastics ambitions raised after deal with PP partner / Lummus tech to prove commercial viability

PROPYLENE

China increasing propylene capacity to meet growing derivative demand / Country expected to dominate global market by 2030 – GlobalData

SINOPEC

ECI Group technology selected for Ningbo PE project

INDIAN OIL

Petchem project in eastern India takes shape / Tech licences from LyondellBasell, Univation

RESYNERGI

Recycling tech firm rolls out continuous microwave assisted pyrolysis modules

SIBUR

EUR 2.2 bn ethylene complex commences operation at ZapSibNeftekhim in Tatarstan / Nameplate capacity to be reached in H2 2025

MOL

Deal with Lummus to start engineering design phase of plastics recycling unit / First plant to be in Hungary

CITRONIQ

Green PP plants in US to use Lummus tech

BRASKEM

Plans confirmed to build JV bio-based ethylene plant in Thailand with SCGC

BIOPLASTICS

Chemists redesign biological PHAs / LG Chem, Gevo to develop bio-based feedstocks / PHA used to line paper cups / First bio-PP production planned in the US / Biodegradable straw doesn't get soggy

KAZAKHSTAN

KazMunayGaz starts up 500,000 t/y PP complex / Construction of cracker, butadiene plant / PE production planned

PETROCHEMICALS

Trade and market disruptions worsen / Increase in PE, PP capacities / Ongoing investment in chemical recycling and decarbonisation projects

BRASKEM

Q2 earnings point sharply downward / Volumes and margins suffer / Continued investment in greener production

TOTALENERGIES

Chemically reclaimed material to feed US resin production / Offtake agreement with New Hope Energy / European deal for supply of waste plastics from Belgian Vanheede

BRASKEM

Collaboration with Lummus on green ethylene / Support for circular economy

LUMMUS

US firm to supply ethylene crackers to massive Baltic coast PE complex

HALDIA PETROCHEMICALS

Joint purchase with Rhône of Lummus Technology for EUR 2.4 bn

HENGLI

World's largest catalytic PDH plant onstream in China / PP capacity surge

BOREALIS

New projects in Kazakhstan studied / Joint ventures for cracker and PE, PP

LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY

Contract awarded by Petronas for world scale cracker project / License and engineering design of five petrochemical units in Malaysia

RELIANCE

Licensing contracts for Jamnagar ethylene cracker and PX line awarded / Mega-hub scheduled to go on stream in 2015

ROSNEFT

Petrochemicals project planned in Russia's Primorsky region / Lummus to supply cracker technology / Downstream polymers production planned

CHINACOAL

Yulin olefins recovery unit to start up in 2013 / Technology supplied by Lummus