Sunoco announced Monday they will permanently shut down the ethylene unit at their Marcus Hook Refinery that was damaged in an explosion and fire in May, and lay off 40-50 workers in the process.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Maruzen Petrochemical, a unit of Cosmo Energy Holdings, will shut its ethylene unit in Chiba in the 2026/27 financial year and consolidate production at Keiyo Ethylene, its ...

Shell returned the gasoline-producing unit and an ethylene unit to production at its 230,811-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery and adjoining chemical plant in Norco, Louisiana, said sources familiar with ...

More than 6.2 million tonnes/year (tpy) of worldwide ethylene production capacity came on stream in 2001. This addition to incremental capacity nearly matched the record of 6.6 million tpy added in ...

Responding to the strong and fast-growing demand for renewably-sourced plastics, Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem SA has announced it is planning to pour $61 million into expanding the capacity ...

Specialty chemicals company Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK) recently said that it will execute the planned maintenance and expansion of its Petro 2 ethylene unit in the first quarter of 2013. The ...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Braskem (B3: BRKM3, BRKM5, and BRKM6; NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK), a global market leader and pioneer producer of bio-polyethylene, proudly celebrates the 15 th ...

DowDuPont Inc. has started production on a specialty polyethylene resin unit and on a new ethylene unit in Freeport, Texas. The new unit will have annual production of almost 900 million pounds of ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westlake Chemical Corporation (NYSE: WLK) announced today that it has successfully restarted its Petro II ethylene unit in ...

A net 6.6 million tonnes/year (tpy) world wide ethylene production capacity came on stream in 2000, more incremental capacity than any other year in history (Fig. 1). Capacity as of Jan. 1, 2000, was ...

Braskem has reached 275,000 tons/year of green ethylene, 37% above the production capacity compared to the initial project in 2010 PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Braskem (B3: BRKM3, BRKM5, and BRKM6; ...