Four containers of PVC left for St Lucia

(Trinidad&Tobago's Newsday) -- Four containers, with $531,000 worth of PVC pipeline from WASA (Water and Sewerage Authority of Trinidad and Tobago) were despatched to St Lucia, Public Utilities Minister Emmanuel George said yesterday as the Government continued its disaster aid drive in the wake of Hurricane Tomas.

⌠About 80-85 percent of the water systems in St Lucia were destroyed, George told reporters. He noted that infrastructure supporting the Sir John Compton Dam was badly damaged.

The minister said the shipments to St Lucia would not affect WASA's local operations in this country, where many are still to date without a 24/7 supply of water. WASA in a press release said the aid was ⌠drawn from WASA's existing stockpile with no impact on day-to-day operations.

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(Thai-ASEAN News Network) -- A group of PVC producers in five Southeast Asian countries has teamed up to promote green initiatives and a sustainable approach to technological development, in hopes of preventing environmental conflicts.

Twelve polyvinyl chloride producers from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand formed the ASEAN Vinyl Council, which aims to address environmental issues related to the industry, such as emission standards for chemical waste, to help minimize the impact on the environment and local communities.

AVC's general manager, Namsak Chunhajutha, said the council will provide support for businesses that wish to better connect with local communities and promote public understanding of investment projects.

Namsak revealed that the consumption of PVC raw materials among Southeast Asian nations currently stands at an average of 1.4 million tons a year, while the output is 2.1 million tons.

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(Plastemart) -- WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has recently begun a scoping project with the aim of enabling retailers and brands to use recycled polypropylene plastic in food packaging.

Using recycled polypropylene instead of virgin plastics, for food packaging also presents significant environmental benefits which can be enjoyed by retailers, brands and consumers.

With developments in infrastructure, HDPE and PET bottles are now widely recycled back into new plastic bottles and in some cases, into food grade packaging too. As polypropylene makes up a significant proportion of plastic packaging in the household bin, developing a process to enable it to be recycled is an important next step towards sustainable packaging.

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(Sibur) -- At the Tobolsk-Polymer Project site a distillation deethanizer column of length 61 metres, diameter 6.26 metres and weight of around 800 tonnes was delivered and set up on its foundation.

After erection, the column was centered, aligned and fixed on its foundation with anchor bolts.

A depropanizer column was the first to be installed in early October.

The production capacity of the Tobolsk-Polymer project is 500 thousand tonnes of polypropylene per annum. The total cost of the project is about 60 billion rubles.

The completion of construction works is expected for the third quarter of 2012.

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(PRNewswire-Asia) -- China Ruitai International Holdings Co., Ltd., a manufacturer and distributor of cellulose ether additives for use in the production of pharmaceuticals, construction materials, PVC products, foods and beverages and cosmetics, announced its financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2010.

Q III highlighted the following: revenue grew 9.8% to $11.2 million; gross profit up 8.2% to $3.6 million and net income was $1.9 million, EPS of $0.07.

China Ruitai is one of the largest manufactures of non-ionic cellulose ether products in China with 8,500 tons of annual capacity. The Company's organic products are used as a thickener, stabilizer and binding agent for a wide variety of products used every day in a number of industries.

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