Ashland transfers distribution pact to Mitsubishi

(PlastEurope) -- Ashland Distribution, will continue to distribute ⌠Xantar polycarbonate in Europe for the new owner of the business, Mitsubishi. In June, DSM swapped its PC activities for the Japanese group's polyamide production. Ashland has had long and successful ties to both companies, explained Gianpaolo Armando, director of the European subsidiary of Ashland Inc. He said his company is ⌠working closely with the Japanese group during the transition period to assure deliveries of existing and new orders.

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(IRIS) -- A fire that broke out on September 11 during a routine maintenance operation at GAIL`s petrochemical plant at Pata was soon brought under control.

The fire broke out in the Crude Hexane Reboiler of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Plant Unit 1 at petrochemical complex at Pata, District Auraiya (U.P.) around 3:20 p.m on September 11. Only minimum men and material were at the site of the incident as it was a holiday on September 11.

While the fire was brought under control within an hour of occurrence of the incident, unfortunately one engineer succumbed to the injuries and two persons sustained minor burn injuries. The injured have been sent to Kanpur for treatment after first aid was provided to them at Pata.

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DALLAS (BusinessWire) -- Celanese Corporation, a leading global technology and specialty materials company and global leader in emulsion polymers, announced today that it will increase the price of all emulsions sold globally, according to the table below, effective October 1, 2010, or as contracts allow.

These price increases include all emulsions and affect applications including, but not limited to, adhesives, paint and coatings, nonwovens, glass fiber, carpet and textiles.

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NEW DELHI (WSJ) -- Indian Oil Corp. plans to use the proceeds of its follow-on public offering to revive shelved petrochemical and liquefied natural gas projects, the state-run refiner's chairman Brij Mohan Bansal said.

India's largest listed company by sales is planning a follow-on public offering by January, through which it will sell fresh shares equivalent to 10% of its equity to raise about 100 billion rupees ($2.16 billion.).

The state-run refiner, which accounts for 28% of India's installed refining capacity of 3.76 million barrels a day, had to put some projects

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(EuropeanPlasticsNews) -- Polish pipe manufacturer KNG is using the KryoSys system from Cincinnati Extrusion to manufacture three-layer PP/HDPE pipes.

The pipes incorporate a thin outer PP-H layer over two HDPE layer and are produced in diameters from 90mm to 630mm.

The KryoSys line uses two Monos+ 60 single-screw extruders for the two HDPE layers and a Talos 45 co-extruder for the thin outer PP-H layer. The pipe head is a KryoS 63-1200 3-Coex. The system uses asynchronous motors to reduce energy consumption.

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