· Grupa Azoty merger completed, consolidation process gets underway
· Petrohemija restarts cracker after HDPE plant modernisation
· Orlen announces investment plans for 2013-2017
· Synthos concludes new butadiene supply contract with OMV
· PCC Rokita issues more bonds to accumulate funds for projects
· Russia faces pressures of WTO integration in 2013
· SIBUR opens new plant at Yuzhniy-Balyk, providing more gas liquids for petrochemicals
· Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat & Kaustik start new ethylene pipeline
· SANORS considers expansion of cracker at Novokuibyshevsk
· Sayanskkhimplast aims to produce 280,000 tons of PVC in 2013
· Methanol projects come under review in Russian Far East; infrastructure challenges
· Nizhnekamskneftekhim exceeds 9 million tons of isoprene rubber since start-up
· Russian butanols domestic consumption rose 26% in Jan-Nov 2012
· Russian DOP production rises in 2012 due to more expensive higher grade plasticizers
· SIBUR and Sinopec await for approval on jv at Krasnoyarsk
· SIBUR has started building new BOPP plant at Tomsk
· Khimprom at Novocheboksarsk replacing hydrogen peroxide equipment
· Mogilevkhimvolokno could be hampered by high electricity costs in 2013
· UzIndoramaGasChemical is planning to build a gas chemical complex in Uzbekistan in 2014
Turkmenistan planning to construct gas chemical complex to break gas dependence