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...Among the expanding team are chemical engineers Veli-Matti Purola and Elina Nauha, formerly of Finnish refining group Neste, and Tuomas Ouni and Mikko Vermasvuori, previously with Borealis Polymers, the...
...This race-ready all-rounder was the choice of INEOS Grenadiers in the 2021 Tour de France....
...The sector is also facing growing public awareness of marine pollution with chemicals companies facing criticism for producing the polymers that go into single-use plastic items and throwaway packaging....
...In its core plastics and olefins divisions, which account for the majority of revenues, exports last year rose 42 per cent, against a 5 per cent rise in domestic sales....
...Half of the polystyrene, supplied by the petrochemicals group Ineos, came from an innovative kind of recycling technique heralded as a means to help tackle the plastic crisis....
...Last month’s winter storm in Texas knocked as much as 80 per cent of the state’s chemicals output offline, disrupting the vast majority of US production of the world’s three most widely used plastic polymers...
...The resulting ethylene and propylene are joined up inside reactors into long-chain polymers that form the two most important commodity plastics....
...Ineos says it is in its interests to have all plants operating....
...performance at its North American olefin and polymers division....
...Solvay’s exit from PVC production will allow the Franco-Belgian company to hone its focus on its more profitable businesses, such as high-tech polymers for the healthcare and oil and gas industries....
...Runcorn’s Ineos Chlor is the sole UK producer of chlorine and Europe’s largest PVC manufacturer....
...Ineos, the UK’s biggest private company with sales approaching $45bn (£23bn), bought Norsk Hydro’s polymers business in February....
...polymers business, agreed in February....
...Ineos said on Monday that due to the speed with which the deal for Norsk Hydro’s polymers unit had progressed, the acquisition would come under Ineos Capital and be underwritten by Barclays Capital and Merrill...
...Ineos is a global manufacturer of speciality and intermediate chemicals and polymers, making the raw materials used in products from anti-freeze to plastic bags....
...It was all smiles at BASF's press conference on Wednesday, as the chemicals giant handed out toothbrushes and toothpaste to demonstrate the versatility of its polymer products....
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