Kazanorgsintez sent an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation with a proposal to ban the import of low-pressure polyethylene from Ukraine to Russia as a mirror measure against the actions of the Ukrainian government. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a company representative. “The essence of the proposals is […]
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Month: August 2020
Russia’s largest oil companies complained to Putin about tax hikes
The heads of the largest Russian oil companies (Rosneft, LUKOIL, Gazprom Neft, Tatneft and Zarubezhneft) complained to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Ministry of Finance’s attempts to change the parameters of the additional income tax (APT), Kommersant reports. Thus, Vladimir Putin put a resolution on the letter to the profile Deputy Prime Minister Yuri […]
POLY-AMERICA WAREHOUSES BURNING IN TEXAS
Poly-America warehouses are on fire in Texas. It is one of the largest polyethylene producers in the world. Firefighters extinguished a large-scale fire in the industrial area of Grande Prairie early Wednesday, according to the Dallas Morning News. The city’s fire department confirmed that the fire occurred in the 2020 quarter on West Marshall Drive, […]
European PE market returns to normal
The European polyethylene (PE) market is returning to normal after a turbulent period of constraints and demand returning to more normal levels, ICIS said. Packaging is one of the main uses of polyethylene worldwide and accounts for about a third of all polymeric packaging; in Europe, about 60% of polyethylene goes to the packaging segment. […]
Near Zhytomyr, police detained two trucks with Lviv garbage
Not far from Zhitomir, 2 trucks with garbage were found. During the inspection, signs of forgery of cargo documents were revealed. This UNN reports with reference to the communication department of the police of the Zhytomyr region. The incident took place on August 15 near the village of Lishchina in the Zhytomyr region. “Travelers reported […]
The head of the State Environmental Inspection advocates returning 70% of the environmental tax to enterprises
The funds collected from the environmental tax should be used to modernize enterprises to reduce the pressure on the environment Andriy Malevany, Chairman of the State Environmental Inspection of Ukraine, supports the initiative to return 70% of the collected environmental tax to enterprises for their modernization in order to reduce the pressure on the environment. […]
Trinseo Raises August Prices for PS, ABS and SAN in Europe
Trinseo (formerly Styron), a major European producer of polystyrene (PS), announced an increase in August prices for all grades of PS, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and styrene acrylonitrile (SAN) in Europe, the company said on August 6. … The price increase took effect on August 1, 2020 and is consistent with the terms of the […]
Americans will invest up to $ 250 million in a garbage processing plant in Nikolayevshchina
One American company has expressed a desire to build a waste recycling plant on the territory of the Novoodessk region. The head of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration Alexander Stadnik said that he had been negotiating with an American company for 10 months in order to obtain permission and rights to an exclusive technology for […]
LDPE continues to rise in price dynamically in Russia
The first days of August led to another increase in prices for high-density polyethylene (LDPE) in Russia, while the dynamics of the rise in prices for polyethylene increased significantly, including due to preventive downtime of individual manufacturers, according to the ICIS-MRC Price Review. In late June – early July, two Russian producers in Angarsk and […]
Ekoplastics introduces a new brand of pipe polyethylene to the market
The Ekoplastics company (Moscow) has agreed with the Korean manufacturer Hanwha Total to start deliveries to the Russian market of a new HDPE grade PE100RC. The Korean manufacturer Hanwha Total (formerly Samsung Total) in the summer of 2020 began exporting its new grade of pipe PE100 grade XRC20B, which will be supplied to the Russian […]