M&G to invest $1 billion in PET and PTA plants in USA The Italian company Mossi & Ghisolfi Gruppo (M&G Group) made the final investment decision (FID) for to build a greenfield polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants in Corpus Christi in Texas, USA. M&G Group is a (more…)
Read moreVietnam Oil & Gas Group completed preparation work PetroVietnam‘s Chairman , Mr Phung Dinh Thuc confirmed during a visit on the site of the Nghi Son refinery project that the preparation work was completed in October 2012 so that the construction could start in 2013. The Nghi Son Refinery and (more…)
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Jul
2012
Japan chemical industry gears up on bio-plastics
Sojitz, SDK and Toray multiply strategic initiatives While the biggest oil and gas producing countries in Middle-East, Russia and North America are expanding their petrochemical industry downstream towards high added value hydrocarbon products, Japan seems to investigate another route through chemical local companies building up Market Leadership on bio-plastics. The (more…)
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20
Jul
2012
Total and Saudi Aramco work on Satorp Expansion
Saudi Aramco and Total to go for Aromatics in phase 2 While the joint venture Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (Satorp) is completing the construction of the refinery as the first phase of the project to come on stream in 2013, Total and Saudi Aramco are already working on the (more…)
Read moreTop brands to develop 100% plant-based PET (BioPET) June 2012, the Coca-Cola Company (Coca-Cola), Ford Motor Company (Ford), H.J. Heinz Company(Heinz), NIKE, Inc. (Nike) and Procter & Gamble (P&G) created the Plant PET Technology Collaborative (PTC). Already December 2009 had marked game changing by Coca-Cola launching its innovative PlantBottle™ package. With the 30 (more…)
Read moreDow and Davy license LP Oxo℠ Technology to Shaanxi Yanchang n-Butanol project Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yan’an Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd.( Yan’an Energy) belongs to Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co., Ltd. (Yanchang Petroleum), the fourth largest NOC in China. Yan’an Energy is planning to invest in a single integrated LP Oxo℠ plant, as (more…)
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13
Jun
2012
Polyplex invests $150 million in Turkey for PET
Indian polyester leader Polyplex selects Turkey for expansion Polyplex Corp. of India, is the fourth largest producer of polyester film in the world. Polyplex and the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey (ISPAT) have jointly announced the decision for Polyplex to select Turkey to support its global expansion in (more…)
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14
May
2012
Paraxylene
Definition Paraxylene is one of the three DimethylBenzene isomers and therefore belongs to the Aromatics family, so called BTX where X stands for Xylene. Paraxylene is also called P-Xylene or even PX. Paraxylene is a colorless liquid. Comments Paraxylene is obtained by the distillation of camphor with zincchloride. Then Paraxylene can (more…)
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26
Apr
2012
“PTA”
Definition: “PTA” is the acronym of Purified Terephthalic Acid. Comment: Modern technologies produce PTA by the catalytic liquid-phase oxidation of Para-Xylene (PX) in acetic acid, which is done in the presence of air and uses manganese or cobalt acetate as a catalyst. PTA is purified in a crystallizer, where unreacted xylene (more…)
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