• Europe polypropylene stays at record high, little relief expected

      01/01/1900
    LONDON (ICIS)--European polypropylene (PP)
    buyers are still paying record-high prices as relief from a relentless
    round of price increases fails to materialise, sources said on Tuesday.
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  • Braskem to consider US cracker, PE project - CEO

      01/01/1900
    NEW YORK (ICIS)--Brazil-based petrochemical and polymers company Braskem is considering a greenfield investment in an ethylene cracker and a polyethylene (PE) plant in the US, its CEO said on Tuesday.
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  • China Q1 GDP grows 9.7%, March inflation at 32-month high

      01/01/1900
    GUANGZHOU (ICIS)--China’s economy expanded at
    an annual rate of 9.7% in the March quarter, slowing further from the
    9.8% pace recorded in the fourth quarter of 2010, as the country
    continued to tighten its monetary policy to curb inflation, according to
    official statistics released on Friday.
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  • Encourage cellulosic ethanol to cut Oil imports: ASSOCHAM

      01/01/1900
    NEW DELHI (Commodity Online): Associated Chamber of
    Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM), a leading industry body, has urged the
    India government to evolve a policy for encouraging second-generation
    alternative fuels like cellulosic ethanol and set targets for blending
    with gasoline to reduce dependence on oil imports.  
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  • World’s largest cellulosic ethanol plant breaks ground in Italy

      01/01/1900
    Italy-based chemicals and plastics firm Mossi & Ghisolfi Group
    (M&G) made history April 12 when the company broke ground for its 13
    MMgy cellulosic ethanol facility in Crescentino in northwestern Italy.
    The project is the largest cellulosic ethanol project in the world to
    date, 10 times larger than any of the currently operating
    demonstration-scale facilities. The plant is expected to become
    operational in 2012 and will use a variety of locally sourced
    feedstocks, beginning with wheat straw and Arundo donax, a perennial
    giant cane.  
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