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Month: March 2009

Oil drops over 4 percent after OPEC keeps output steady

March 24, 2009 by plasticsinfomart

PERTH – Oil fell more than 4 percent to $44 a barrel on Monday after OPEC agreed to leave existing output targets unchanged but vowed to enforce those curbs more strictly in an effort to put a firm floor under prices. While top producer Saudi Arabia had signaled a week ago that it wanted better […]

Japan Feb ethylene output dives 23.7 pct yr/yr

March 24, 2009 by plasticsinfomart

TOKYO, March 10 (Reuters) – Japanese ethylene production plunged 23.7 percent year on year in February, government data showed,falling by double digits for the sixth straight month as demand stayed weak for petrochemicals. Ethylene output totalled 463,200 tonnes last month, compared with 606,800 tonnes in February 2008 and 501,300 tonnes in January,the Ministry of Economy, […]

Oil below $47 after 11 pct jump ahead of OPEC meet

March 24, 2009 by plasticsinfomart

Oil edged down below $47 a barrel on Friday ahead of OPEC’s meeting this weekend which pushed prices up by more than 11 percent in the previous session, helped by better-than-expected economic data. Easing some demand worries and pushing equities up, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Thursday sales slipped 0.1 percent in February after […]

China scrap plastic market on 9th, March, 2009

March 24, 2009 by plasticsinfomart

PMMAPMMA market held steady and the sales of high grade material moved faster due to strong demand while dealers kept quiet. The latest price: pure PMMA board 7,800RMB per ton. ABSABS price kept in line with earlier days and the supply kept stable in the market. Scrap spots can meet the demand as susal from […]

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Another buy for Eurocell as it adds Recovinyl-certified recycler

March 23, 2009 by plasticsinfomart

PVC building profiles extruder Eurocell has made its third company acquisition in the space of a year. It has bought Merritt Plastics which is a rigid PVC recycling and extrusion company. Merritt last year invested some £500,000 at its 60,000 ft² Ilkeston, Derbyshire, site to increase its ability to handle post-consumer window frames to around […]