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- October hikes prove short-lived in Europe’s PP market
  
  In Europe, initial PP offers emerged with slight increases in line with the €10/ton higher propylene settlement. Yet, players reported that rollovers started to pass on deals particularly in Italy while some hikes were sporadically achieved in Northwest Europe...
  
  Firming PE trend stumbles, medium-term expectations stifled in Turkey
  
  October started on a firm footing for PE as sellers approached Turkey with price hikes. This was deemed a reflection of Aramco-driven cutbacks in H2 September. Nonetheless, buyers have recently pushed back since the previous revival in activity faded with latest deals representing rollovers or smaller hikes than initially sought...
  
  PET prices fail to rebound from near 3-year low in Asia, Europe
  
  PET prices both in Asia and Europe have witnessed a renewed weakness recently. The low season seems to have outpaced the hike attempts of sellers to pull the market up from near 3-year lows...
  
  African PP, PE markets start Q4 in limbo amid varying pricing policies
  
  In Africa, buyers and sellers struggled to find a common ground in pricing for October. New offers ranged in a variety of different policies, from rollovers to increases or decreases, depending on the suppliers’ inventories and the state of demand...
  
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Production Flowcharts

CHLOR-ALKALI PROCESSES

GENERAL FLOW CHART

Mercury cell process
Diaphragm cell process
Membrane cell process
Ion exchange membrane inside

EDC production

Direct chlorination
Oxychlorination

VCM production

EDC cracking
EDC/VCM integrated process

POLYMER PRODUCTION

PVC

Suspension polymerization
Emulsion polymerization
Mass (bulk) polymerization

LDPE

Autoclave process
Tubular process

HDPE production

Slurry process
Former Ziegler process (detailed slurry process)
Gas phase process

LLDPE

Gas phase process

PP Production

Gas Phase Process
High yield slurry process
Bulk phase polymerization

Borealis Bulk/Gas phase together: BORSTAR
Basell Bulk polymerization - SPHERIPOL

BENZENE AND PS PRODUCTION

GENERAL FLOW CHART

Benzene production

TDP process - from toluene to benzene
Extractive distillation - from pygas to benzene

Ethylbenzene

Catalytic alkylation of benzene with ethylene

Styrene

Dehydrogenation of EB to produce styrene monomer

GPPS/HIPS

Bulk process for GPPS/HIPS production

EPS

Suspension process for EPS production

CRUDE OIL, NAPHTHA AND OLEFINS

GENERAL FLOW CHART

Crude oil to naphtha, ethylene and propylene
Distillation Unit
Steam Cracker
FCC unit

FROM NATURAL GAS TO OLEFINS

GENERAL FLOW CHART

NG processing
Ethane from olefins