ECN-European Chemical News articles from September 2004

ECN-European Chemical News archives from September 2004

Industry must fill the skills gap.(UK's Chemistry Leadership Council comments)
September 6, 2004... It is a pretty safe bet that the profile of the chemical industry will see important changes as we move through the 'recovery cycle'. Within the specialities sector, two examples are provided by emerging challenges in healthcare...

Silicone strength.(Dow Corning Toray Silicone Company Ltd. to buy silicone division of Nippon Unicar)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Dow Coming Toray Silicone, Dow Corning's joint venture in Japan, is planning to buy the silicone division of Nippon Unicar on 30 September, providing it obtains approval from the Japan Fair Trade Commission. Both companies expect that...

Bottom line boost.
September 6, 2004... BioAlliance Pharma, a privately held French biopharma company working in the field of drug resistance, has raised an additional 2m [euro] to top off its third round of financing at 12m [euro]. In a round led by Auriga Partners, the additional...

Xenova divests.(Xenova Group PLC sold manufacturing facility to QSV Biologics )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Xenova Group has sold its manufacturing facility in Edmonton, Canada, to QSV Biologics for Can$7m (4.4m [euro]/$5.4m). The consideration comprises an initial payment of Can$5m in cash payable upon completion, and a further deferred...

Float in motion.(Braschem planning for share offer )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Brazil's Braschem is planning to move ahead with its proposed Real900m (252m [pounds sterling]/ $304m) share offer later this month. Braschem is likely to start book-building, the process where it drums up and measures interest in the offer,...

France tackles malaise.(CHEMICAL: THINK TANK)
September 6, 2004... France's chemical industry is a deep malaise and must find a solution to the problem, says industry minister Patrick Devedjian. His department, along with Union des Industries Chimiques (UIC), are setting up a strategic chemicals think tank to...

CLC drives sciences for greater fusion.(Chemistry Leadership Council )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Chemistry education needs to be integrated with other disciplines, in particular chemical engineering, if the industry is to have a successful future in the UK, says the UK's Chemistry Leadership Council (CLC). The industry and academic...

A toast to dsm.(Business)
September 6, 2004... DSM has signed a deal with German sports nutrition company Haleko to make its peptide sports drink PeptoPro commercially available across Europe and the rest of the world from 1 January 2005. News editor simon.robinson@rbi.co.uk

Ex-nuclear plant for sale.(RUSSIA: DISPOSAL)
September 6, 2004... Russia's Kirov regional authority plans to sell its remaining 19% stake in Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Combine for $24m. Until 1993, the Kirovo-Chepetsk plant was supervised by Russia's nuclear agency. It produced uranium tetrafluoride and...

Smaller biotech players show signs of optimism.(GERMANY: BIOTECH)
September 6, 2004... After a 'difficult' 2002 and 2003, Germany's small and medium-sized biotechnology companies are now more optimistic, said the president of industry association DIB Peter Stadler last week in Frankfurt. Stadler pointed to encouraging signs...

Six die in turnaround explosion.(SOUTH AFRICA: ETHYLENE)
September 6, 2004... Six people have died, 14 are missing and five are in intensive care as ECN goes to press following an explosion at a 360 000 tonne/year ethylene plant at Sasol's Secunda, South Africa, site on 1 September. The explosion occurred during...

Celanese sweetener sale falters.(Celanese to sell its Nutrinova artificial sweeteners and sorbates subsidiary )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Plans for German group Celanese to sell its Nutrinova artificial sweeteners and sorbates subsidiary have faltered, says chief shareholder, US private equity group Blackstone. It appears differences over the valuation of the business with...

Airbags unit sold.
September 6, 2004... Germany's MG Technologies has sold Dynamit Nobel Automotive Ignition Systems (DNAIS), producer of pyrotechnic components for airbags, among other applications, to US automotive supplier Delphi. With 2003 sales of around 40m [euro], DN AIS is...

Pharma buy-out.
September 6, 2004... A management buy-out of BASF's Cramlington, UK, site for an undisclosed sum was completed by managing director Robert Hardy in early September. The site, which was no longer strategic for BASF, was sold as a going concern. There are no...

EU prices escalate.(chemical prices )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Chemical prices in the European Union rose by 3.5% in July, the fastest year-on-year growth since March when data from new member states were included, according to figures from Eurostat, the official statistics agency. Chemical prices in the...

Sanofi results out prior to Aventis in.(PHARMACEUTICAL: RESULTS)
September 6, 2004... Sanofi-Aventis announced its last results before Aventis is incorporated into the company, and saw consolidated sales up 18.9% at 4.58bn [euro] for the half year, with operating profit up 24.6% at 1.73bn [euro]. Sanofi-Synthelabo was...

Bayer gets boost as profits nearly double.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Bayer has boosted second quarter (Q2) earnings before interest and tax (Ebit) by 44% to 660m [euro], due mainly to increased demand for industrial products and further synergies as Aventis CropScience is integrated into agrochemicals. Polymer...

IFP sees higher oil prices to come.(OIL: GLOBAL INFLUENCES)
September 6, 2004... The Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP) believes the price of oil could rise as high as $80/bbl if there is further global instability this year. This will have dire effects on the chemicals industry and global economies, it says. High oil...

ICI Pakistan sells PTA stake to pay debt.(DIVESTMENT: PURIFIED TEREPHTHALIC ACID)
September 6, 2004... UK speciality chemicals company ICI has announced that its Pakistan subsidiary has sold an 18.9% stake in its purified terephthalic acid (PTA) business, Pakistan PTA, for Rupee 3.0bn (42m [euro]/$51m). The stake was sold by ICI Pakistan...

Orica sells land.(Investa Property Group)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Orica, the Australian explosives, chemical and fertiliser company, has sold surplus land at its Deer Park, Melbourne, site to Investa Property for Aus$35m (20m [euro]/$24.4m). The sale, scheduled to close on 8 September, could generate a...

Indian tariffs threat.(RUBBER: ACCELERATORS)
September 6, 2004... India is investigating whether it should impose tariffs on chemicals used to give rubber its rubbery properties. The Directorate General of Anti-dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) says there is prima facie evidence that accelerators including...

CIA Reaches out for answer.(Chemical Industries Association and European independent analytical laboratory LGC planning for an advisory center)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The UK Chemical Industries Association (CIA) and European independent analytical laboratory LGC are planning to set up a centre to advise on the European Union's registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals (Reach) policy. The...

DEG doubles in tight market.(diethylene glycol )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... European diethylene glycol (DEG) prices have continued to rise through the third quarter, now reaching 980-1080 [euro]/tonne delivered in NWE. A climate of limited availability and strong demand is fueling higher prices. DEG prices in Europe...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 6, 2004... We would like to point out that the graph in the benzene product profile published in the most recent issue of ECN (23 August) is incorrect. The figures showing the European contract price during 2003 and 2004 are wrong. However, the spot...

Contract prompts debate.(European contract mechanism for adipic acid producers )
September 6, 2004... Adipic acid producers have adjusted their approach to the existing European contract mechanism in response to extremely volatile feedstock pricing. Certain producers are arguing that the quarterly contract mechanism is no longer appropriate...

Industry hit by severe shortage.(acrylic acid)
September 6, 2004... European acrylic acid players say the market is under 'almost historically extreme supply conditions' and believe it will be at least another six months before the situation eases. The industry has been blighted by severe stock shortages...

Bayer price rise.
September 6, 2004... Bayer Sheet Europe hopes to raise the price of its Makrolon polycarbonate sheets and Bayloy coloured sheets from 13 September. An initial increase of 15% will be introduced, followed by an additional 7% from 4 October. Markets editor...

Methanor hits high.
September 6, 2004... After 30 years, Methanor--a joint venture between Dynea, Akzo Nobel and DSM--has produced its 20 millionth tonne of methanol. Methanor currently operates two facilities at the Chemical Park in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, with a combined capacity...

Off-list price hike.
September 6, 2004... Dow Chemical plans immediately to increase its US off-list selling prices of both diaphragm and membrane grades of caustic soda 50% solution. Diaphragm and membrane prices will rise by $45 and $55/dst, respectively. Markets editor...

P&G ups capacity.
September 6, 2004... Procter & Gamble Chemicals (P&G) plans to raise its capacity of fatty alcohols and tertiary amines. The company says it intends to manufacture a further 30 000 tonne/year of fatty alcohols. P&G has also announced an increase at its Kansas City...

PET pressures.
September 6, 2004... Equipolymers has announced price increases for its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins. Rising production costs and low margins are behind the 80 [euro]/tonne hike, which will take effect from 1 September. Markets editor...

BASF increases.
September 6, 2004... BASF intends to raise the price of 1,4-butanediol by 100 [euro]/tonne in Europe. The increases will take effect from 1 September, or as contracts allow, and are in reaction to higher costs and lower margins. Markets editor...

Players hope for price push.(ETHANOL: INCREASES)
September 6, 2004... Producers of synthetic ethanol believe the time is right to push for a price rise, following several months of price erosion. Jean-Francois Boideau, BP's ethanol business manager, told ECN: 'Supply and demand have improved in Europe....

Supply/demand disparity looms.(caustic soda )
September 6, 2004... Demand for caustic soda is beginning to outstrip supply for the first time in over a decade. Players say that stocks have now reached critically low levels, and the lack of capacity expansion in the past few years is starting to cause problems....

Styrene soars on high expectations: spot styrene reached $1350-1400/tonne as players anticipate a tighter market in September, Toluene firmed on strong US and Asian demand, but dipped again as crude prices weakened.(Market trends)
September 6, 2004... Naphtha prices have fallen away from their mid-August high, reflecting the slide in crude oil numbers. Improved prompt availability has also impacted naphtha values. Lower futures prices confirm the softer market sentiment. Ethylene spot...

Plastics defy summer slowdown; global demand has contradicted the usual European August lull, pushing prices up across the board. Polystyrene prices have leapt by up to 200 [euro]/tonne, with further rises predicted.(Plastics monitor)
September 6, 2004... European polymer producers raised prices in the traditionally quiet holiday month of August. The level of increases however--averaging 20 [euro]/tonne --are well below sellers' expectations of 50 [euro]/tonne or above. Certain suppliers feel...

Paraxylene: the future looks brighter as strong demand and little new capacity pulls up operating rates.(Product profile)
September 6, 2004... Uses Paraxylene (PX) is the largest volume isomer of the mixed xylenes. Its primary consumer, with about 98% of demand, is polyester via its intermediates purified terephthalic acid or dimethyl terephthalate. A small amount of PX is used...

A year of transition: the Top 100 shows the sector climbing out of the trough of a prolonged downturn, with petrochemicals taking the clear lead.(Cover Story)
September 6, 2004... The year of the manana recovery, 2003 finally and, thankfully, marked the turning point for the global chemical industry. Petrochemicals led the pack, but as the year progressed major speciality chemicals markets began to push ahead too, driven...

German market.(Rhodia PPA's distribution agreement with ACS International Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Rhodia PPA's flavours and fragrance division has appointed ACS International as its distributor for Germany, effective from 1 July 2004. ACS International was founded 1 May 2004 with the aim of linking manufacturers of aroma chemicals with...

BP consultancy.
September 6, 2004... UK logistics company Agility has won a three-month consultancy contract from BP Grangemouth. Agility was awarded the contract to evaluate BP's downstream polymer supply chain from Grangemouth, UK, as well as distribution centre facilities in...

R&H distribution.
September 6, 2004... From 1 September 2004 Brenntag becomes the UK distributor for Rohm and Haas architectural and functional water-based products used in coatings applications. Used for architectural, industrial and construction purposes, these products go under...

Heil transfer.(Heil Trailer International planning to close tank trailer plant )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Hell Trailer International has announced plans to close its tank trailer plant in the UK by the end of this year and transfer the work to factories in Thailand, Poland and Argentina. The move is intended to strengthen Heil's cargo tank...

Rotterdam chief resigns.(Willem Scholten)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The chief executive officer (ceo) of the Port of Rotterdam, Willem Scholten, has stepped down in the wake of an investigation into the underwriting of bank loans by the port. The loans, totaling 100m [euro], were granted by Scholten to RDM, a...

TCS tank will withstand leaks.(Balmoral Chemical Tanks launched Total Containment Systems )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... UK-based Balmoral Chemical Tanks has launched a range of Total Containment Systems (TCS) that promise to improve security in the event of vandalism or other violations. Ranging in size from 1500-5000 litre, the tanks are moulded in high-quality...

Univar sales look up.(Univar N.V.)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Improved business conditions since the second half of 2003 have helped to boost sales by Univar, the Dutch logistics company reports. Over the first six months of 2004, the company brought in revenues of $2689.5m, up 9.1% on the first half of...

Oil prices hit UK trucks.(UK: FREIGHT)
September 6, 2004... Escalating oil prices are hitting UK truck drivers hard, the UK's Freight Transport Association (FTA) reports. The higher price of diesel has added around 2% to vehicle operating costs, which the FTA warns is enough to wipe out the already...

EC absolves firms.(European Commission cleared Vopak Shipping B.V. and Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group of alleged anti-competitive activities )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The European Commission has cleared logistics groups Vopak and Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group (SNTG) of alleged anti-competitive activities in the inland barging market. SNTG was informed by the Commission that its investigation into...

25 years ago: ECN 3 September 1979.(case among Mobil Oil Corp. and Rohm and Haas Co.)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... On 14 August the US' Mobil Oil sued Rohm and Haas for alleged infringement of three phenoxybenzoic acid herbicide patents issued the same day. The suit, filed in Wilmington, Delaware, seeks an injunction against future commercial use of the...

Brunner Mond.(Martin Keighley appointed to Brunner Mond Holdings Ltd.)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Martin Keighley has been appointed to the newly created role of managing director, Europe at leading soda ash producer Brunner Mond. Keighley, who was formerly Brunner Mond's director of marketing & supply chain, and general manager for...

Dow Chemical.(People on the move)
September 6, 2004... Dow Chemicars new Chlor-Vinyl global business unit will be led by Philippe Raynaud de Fitte who has worked for the company for 25 years. He becomes business vice president of the new unit. Raynaud has held diverse roles within Dow Chemical...

Eastman Chemical.(People on the move)
September 6, 2004... Voridian, a division of Eastman Chemical and major supplier of polyethylene terephthalate, has named Stephen Short as sales director Europe, polymer business group, which is located in Zug, Switzerland. Short, who graduated from Bradford...

Uhde.(People on the move)
September 6, 2004... German engineering group Uhde has added to its executive board with the appointment of Helmut Knauthe. He takes charge of the business segments organic chemicals, polymers, and refining technologies at the company's branch office in Bad Soden,...

Conferences.(chemical industry)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
September 6, 2004... ERTC petrochemicals 11-13 October Vienna, Austria Tel +44 1737 365100 Fax +44 1737 365101 Website www.gtforum.com PaintTech 12-15 October Messe Sinsheim, Germany Tel +41 32 6 66 30 90 Fax +41 32 6 66 30...

Did you know?(Diary)
September 6, 2004... DID YOU KNOW? Polyurethane production in South America and Mexico in 2003 Venezuela 4% Rest 5% Argentina 6% Brazil 49% Chile 4% Colombia 4% Mexico ...

EPA agreement.
September 6, 2004... The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached an agreement with Abbott Laboratories on alleged violations of EPA regulations to protect stratospheric ozone at the company's health care manufacturing plant in Illinois, US. The EPA has...

Asthma link.
September 6, 2004... Exposure to fumes from domestic solvents and cleaning products may increase the risk of childhood asthma, according to a study in the medical journal Thorax. The authors have based their findings on 88 toddlers with asthma and 104 without who...

DuPont on Track.
September 6, 2004... The DuPont EKe Technology facility, located in California, US, has been accepted into the Environmental Protection Agency's Performance Track Programme. The programme recognises top environmental performers and companies that go beyond...

Damage payment agreed.(chemical industries has to pay for natural resource restoration, US Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Eight companies, including BP Products North America, DuPont and ExxonMobil, have agreed to pay nearly $60m to restore natural resources in the Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbour Canal, in Indiana, US. In addition, the companies have...

WWF warns of perfluorinates.(World Wide Fund for Nature)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Environmental organisation WWF is urging parents across Europe to check the labels of children's clothes for perfluorinated chemicals. The chemical has 'non-stick properties' and is frequently used in children's clothes labelled as...

Denmark calculates savings from Reach.(Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Denmark's environment agency has calculated that the social and economic benefits of implementing Reach within the country are in the region of 90m [euro]-707m [euro] over 30 years. The estimates include savings associated with improved health...

EC pushes for chemicals ban.(European Commission banned persistent organic pollutants)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The European Commission (EC) is pushing for a further nine chemicals to be banned under the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which came into force in May this year, and the 1998 UNECE Protocol on POPs. The nine...

Octel buys A&FC.(US: ACQUISITION)
September 6, 2004... Delaware, US-based Octel Corp has bought Aroma & Fine Chemicals (A&FC) from Close Brothers Private Equity (CBPE) for 21m [pounds sterling] (31m [euro]/$38m). The Widnes, UK, company was created at the end of 2001 by a management buyout from...

2.7m [euro] grant for unit.(UK/US: RHODIA)
September 6, 2004... Rhodia Pharma Solutions as been awarded a 1.8m [pounds sterling] (2.7m [euro]/$3.2m) grant over three years to help fund a 4.5m [pounds sterling] upgrade of a production unit in Annan, Scotland, UK, used to make a cancer drug currently in...

UCB builds centres.(UCB Pharma)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... UCB Pharma is reorganising its R&D operations following the acquisition of Celltech of the UK. It will create centres of excellence in Braine-l'Alleud in Belgium and Slough and Cambridge in the UK, but close its US research facility in Boston,...

Syngenta/D&PL sign seeds deal.(Syngenta AG, Delta and Pine Land Co.)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Syngenta and US-based Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) have entered into a long-term agreement to develop and commercialise biotechnology products for cotton. Under the terms of the agreement Syngenta will grant D&PL global licences to develop and...

Strict legislation will hamper innovation.(development of novel polymer ingredients to be hampered )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Development of novel polymer ingredients and technologies for use in the personal care market is likely to be hampered by an increasingly strict regulatory environment, according to a report published by consultancy Frost & Sullivan. The...

Deep water lift.(HONEYWELL: SPECTRA)
September 6, 2004... Honeywell's high strength, low weight Spectra polyethylene fibre is being used in a 50:50 blend with Celanese's Vectran liquid crystal fibre, to create a high-performance rope for use in deep water lifting operations. The polymer rope,...

Black spot cure.(Bodisen Biotech developed environmentally friendly pesticide )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Bodisen Biotech says that it has developed an environmentally friendly pesticide to treat black spot, a bacterial problem said to affect fruit trees worldwide. The company said that the pesticide is demonstrating 'excellent results' in field...

Fresher taste.
September 6, 2004... BioTec Films, a subsidiary of BioProgress, is supplying personal care consumer products company Colgate Palmolive with an 'in-the-mouth' dissolving film technology which will be added to Colgate's whitening toothpaste. The dissolving film is...

Fabric meets medical needs.(E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.'s plant for production of non-woven fabrics )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... DuPont has opened a plant for the production of non-woven fabrics based on composite technology that provides users with improved levels of comfort and protection. DuPont says that its proprietary Advance Composite Technology (ACT) blends...

BASF/Dow join in PO venture.(BELGIUM: HPPO)
September 6, 2004... BASF and Dow Chemical have finalised plans to jointly build a world-scale propylene oxide (PO) plant in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant, which will be built at BASF's Verbund site, will use the hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO)...

Deepak builds first IPA plant in India.(INDIA: ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL)
September 6, 2004... Deepak Fertiliser & Petrochemicals plans to invest Rupee2040m (36.6m [euro]/ $44.1m) in collaboration with Equistar-Lyondell for India's first isopropyl alcohol (IPA) plant. The plant, which will be built in Taloja, Maharashtra, is...

Kuraray earmarks $150m for EVOH.(Kuraray Chemical Company Ltd. to double its ethylene vinyl alcohol)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Kuraray will invest $150m to double its ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) copolymer resin production to 47200 tonne/year in Pasadena, Texas, US, by March 2006. An expansion is under way at Kuraray's Belgium EVOH plant, and when coupled to this...

Teijin spins on.
September 6, 2004... Teijin Twaron has awarded Aker Kvaerner a 5m [euro] engineering, procurement and construction contract to expand its spinning facility in Emmen, the Netherlands (ECN 26 July). The expansion is scheduled for completion in September 2005. Aker...

Topsoe licence.
September 6, 2004... JSC Acron has awarded Haldor Topsoe a contract to supply a licence, engineering, catalysts and a fully programmed control system for a 29 250 tonne/year formaldehyde plant in Veliky Novgorod, Russia. The plant will produce aqueous formaldehyde...

Refinery upgrade.
September 6, 2004... Sasol has awarded Fluor a $176m project management, engineering, procurement and construction contract for refinery upgrades in Secunda, South Africa. This is the latest in a series of awards made by Sasol to Fluor relating to its clean fuels...

Groundbreaking.
September 6, 2004... PQ has broken ground on the construction of a sodium silicate plant in Tianjin, China. Initially a 40 000 tonne/year glass furnace with appropriate dissolving capacity will start up early in 2005, followed by a silica gel plant early in 2006....

Acid purification.(Air Products and Chemicals Inc. to rebuild nitric acid purification facility)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Air Products will begin rebuilding its nitric acid purification facility in Pueblo, Colorado, US, after an accident damaged the facility earlier this year. The construction will not interfere with normal plant operations or any other product...

Fujian venture deal inked.(Exxon Mobil Corp., Fujian Petrochemical Corp., Saudi Arabian Oil Co.)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... ExxonMobil, Fujian Petroemical and Saudi Aramco have signed an agreement to form the Fujian Integrated Project joint venture for a $3.5bn petrochemical complex in Fujian, China. The project will expand an existing refinery from 4m tonne/...

Chilean producer grows nitrates/[I.sub.2].(Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A.)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Chilean inorganic chemicals producer Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM) is building a lithium hydroxide plant and expanding its potassium nitrate and iodine capacities. Construction of the $15m lithium hydroxide project, located close...

Lurgi scoops fourth MegaMethanol deal.(QATAR: METHANOL)
September 6, 2004... Lurgi has secured its fourth order for a MegaMethanol technology plant from the Qatar Fuel Additives Company (ECN 4 July). The 2.2m tonne/year plant, which will be built in Mesaieed, is scheduled to come onstream in 2008. Lurgi will provide...

Purac invests in biotech.(ASIA: BIOCHEMICALS)
September 6, 2004... Purac, a division of the Netherlands-based food and ingredients company, CSM, is planning to invest 75-100m [euro] in a fifth biochemicals plant. The new facility will be located in Asia and is expected onstream in 2007 or early 2008. ...

Perstorp to invest 27m [euro].(Perstorp AB)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Swedish speciality chemical producer Perstorp will invest SKr250m (27m [euro]/$33m) in two new acid plants in Sweden. The plants will expand existing facilities based on Perstorp's proprietary technology. Formic acid production in Perstorp...

Reported in ECN 9 August 2004.(New projects summary)
September 6, 2004... REPORTED IN ECN 9 AUGUST 2004 Company Product Capacity Amir Kabi Petrochemical Co. Bandar Imam, Iran polyethylene 300 000 Bou Ali Sina Petrochemical Bandar Imam, Iran ...