Blogs
India polymer exports to Pakistan set to rise (Asian Chemical Connections)
By Malini Hariharan After years of waiting truck movement of petrochemicals from India to Pakistan has started paving the way for Indian companies to boost their exports. Indian Oil Corp (IOC), which regularly exports polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) by...
PHOTOS: MRC Russian Polymers Summit 2011
The second Russian Polymers Summit, organised by MRC and supported by ICIS, took place in Moscow last week. Our own Linda Naylor was speaking on the European polymer outlook, along with a roster of eminent Russian industry figures, and a...
VIDEO: Russian Polymers Summit - November 2011
The promotional video for the forthcoming second ICIS-MRC Russian Polymers Conference in Moscow in November has some entertaining video footage of Linda and me, dubbed into Russian. The photos and video are from last year's event, which...
India polymers shine but questions persist (Asian Chemical Connections)
By Malini Hariharan Optimism has returned to the Indian polymer market fuelled by a sharp recovery in prices and buying sentiment over the last few weeks across Asia. The talk these days is mainly about tightness in availability of polyethylene...
India polymers slide once again (Asian Chemical Connections)
By Malini Hariharan The messenger's prediction has turned out to be correct. Indian polymer producers have been forced to reduce domestic prices to match levels seen in the wider Asian market. The week started with a downward revision to polypropylene...
Solvay merger with Rhodia to create global leader in polymers and consumer products
Today's announcement that Solvay has bid for Rhodia - if successful - will put it into a strong global position in high performance specialty polymers, soda ash and hydrogen peroxide, specialty materials (silica, rare earths), products for consumer markets (surfactants,...
Petrobras moves forward on green polymers (Chemicals & The Economy)
The blog was very pleased to talk recently to Business News Americas about developments in Latin America. Please click here if you would like to read the full interview. It highlights the key role being played by Brazil's Petrobras, particularly...
MORE PHOTOS: ICIS-MRC Russian Polymers in Moscow
Some more photos of last week's ICIS-MRC Russian Polymers Summit have arrived this afternoon from Svetlana at MRC in Kharkiv. 1 Speakers from Nizhnekamsk (Yevgeniy Tsyganov, Deputy General Director for Commerical Issues) and Lukoil (Alexander Rappoport, Director for Gas and...
PHOTOS: ICIS-MRC Russian Polymers Summit
Everyone who is anyone in Russian polymers was there. I don't know how our working partners at MRC managed to get such a star line-up of speakers, but it certainly pulled in a crowd. Speakers from Sibur, Lukoil and...
Russian Polymers Summit in Moscow
The ICIS-MRC Russian Polymers Summit in Moscow yesterday saw 150 delegates, mostly from Russia and the Former Soviet Union (FSU) spending a day listening to some top name speakers from the key players in the region. It was also...
