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chemicalwatch | February 20, 2020

International NGO coalition, Ipen, is calling for the World Health Organization to be more involved in the UN’s global chemicals management programme after 2020. Joe DiGangi, senior science and technical adviser at the International Pollutants Elimination Network, told Chemical Watch that "governments need a positive example of how ministries or agencies with responsibilities for chemical safety can work together in a common mission to protect human health and the environment." T...

COMMODITIES

Chevron Phillips Chemical | May 06, 2021

Chevron Phillips Chemical declared today intends to expand its alpha olefins business with a subsequent world-scale unit to create deliberately 1-hexene. Expected limit with regards to the new unit is 266 KTA with targeted startup in 2023 and its area will be Old Ocean, Texas, close to the organization's Sweeny office. At its pinnacle, the task expects supporting in excess of 600 development occupations and 50 or more full-time positions. 1-hexene is a basic segment in the cre...

ICIS | February 06, 2020

China’s planned rollback of tariffs on certain imports from the US starting on 14 February will impact a number of key polymers and chemicals. China will roll back the 5-10% tariffs imposed on $75bn of US imports in the 4th round of tariffs in the US-China trade war by half to 2.5-5%. Those “part one” tariffs in the 4th round were implemented on 1 September 2019, before the phase one US-China trade deal signed on 15 January. Part two of the 4th round of tariffs never went into ...

CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY

Westlake | August 05, 2021

Westlake Chemical Corporation, today announced plans for one of its subsidiaries to acquire the parent company of Dimex LLC, from Grey Mountain Partners, a private equity firm. Based in Marietta, Ohio, Dimex produces a variety of consumer products made from post-industrial-recycled (PIR) polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene (PE) and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) materials, and has annualized sales of approximately $100 million. These consumer products include landscape edging; industrial, home...