Tight supply coupled with high demand has raised acetic acid prices in the Kandla market.

A rise in IPA prices was recorded today at Hazira.

MIBK prices registered a fall in the imported market of Kandla.

A significant rise in phenol prices has been reported in the chemical market of Kandla.

8A new formaldehyde plant is coming up
8Get the feasibility report here

8How to train a maintenance mechanic or an attendant operator in a chemical plant?
8Here is a step-to-step guide

8Here is a whole paper on chemical recycling of PET in the presence of the bio-based polymers, PLA, PHB and PEF
8Get the full details here

8Vijayneha Polymers Pvt Ltd (VPPL) is a Hyderabad, Telangana based company engaged in the business of manufacturing plastic flexible and high-end packaging materials covering polythene carry bags, multilayer films and laminated pouches both with or without printing, thin wall containers, aluminium foils, tree guards, and mosquito nets
8Cash accruals are at around Rs 25-30 crore per annum

8Global petrochemical giant Ineos said today that it will invest a further £1bn ($1.4bn) to help achieve net zero emissions at Scotland's Grangemouth refining and petrochemicals complex by 2045

8Lummus Technology has has been awarded a technology contract for a grassroots diphenyl carbonate (DPC) plant

8Kaypear Consulting LLP is organizing its fifth seminar on process safety in a chemical plant

8Capacity expansions are coming up in the chemical sector for:
8Synthetic/Natural Organic Aromatic Plant
8Technical pesticides and its intermediates
8Waste water discharge of 447 KLD and disposal of 29 KLD of HTDS effluent
8Another expansion involving technical pesticides

8Kick off meetings have begun for CPCL's Nagapattinam refinery
8CPCL awarded contracts amounting to Rs. 1,538 Crore to Project Management Consultants 8M/s. Engineers India Limited (EIL), McDermott and Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE)

8BASF is showcasing a number of sustainable plastics solutions from October 12-16
8Read more if you are interested

India imports a wide variety of chemicals
8From paraxylene to acetic acid to benzene to butadiene to methanol to sulphuric acid to hexane to base oil to caustic soda to styrene monomer to ethanol
8And as of today evening we are tracking 1.04 million MT of chemical imports

8Get an update of all of dry and bulk vessels arriving into India
8A comprehensive port wise data is carried here

8Here is a daily update on tankers that are bringing in assorted chemicals into India
8From caustic soda to acetic acid to naphtha and more, get all the data here
8Data is available on nearly a 100 shipments

8A total of 7.03 million tonnes of crude imports are getting tracked
8RIL has lined up roughly 2.5 MMTPA of crude imports into India in the coming days

8As of today, Dahej terminal has four cargoes of Petronet and one each of IOCL and GAIL coming up ahead
8Find here daily looking-ahead data on LNG imports

8Among IFFCO’s imports are: Urea, sulphur and rock sulphate 
8We are tracking 1.15k tonnes of fertilizer imports

This is Rs 1500 crore multi-product pipeline is the initial pre-EPC tender stage
8An EPCM is getting finalized
8So expect a lot of action ahead

8The website carries here our weekly outlook for mixed xylene
8Find out how prices are going to behave ahead

The Candian giant Brookfield, which took over Mukesh Ambani's East West Pipeline is now eying the renewable space.
8The website outlines here the size of this effort
8Find out how high returns are generated out of funds invested

The Cambay oil & gas is expected to  see more action going ahead
8Exploratory and workover programs are on way
8As also possible farm-ins

A group of the world's most well-known energy scientists has come out openly against hydrogen as a solution to all our future energy needs
8Blue hydrogen is ruled out as a solution
8And even green hydrogen should not be used for transportation or in heating or cooling of homes
There is a new counter-cycle movement in the offing overuse of hydrogen