USA, Canada and Mexico begin to renegotiate the Nafta review
8/17/2017 -
The United States, Canada and Mexico start on Wednesday (16) to renegotiate the agreement that there are 23 years abolished their customs borders, something crucial to the Mexican economy, but whose future Donald Trump put in doubt.
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Braskem registers record EBITDA of R $3.6 billion in first quarter
5/17/2017 -
Braskem, the largest petrochemical industry in the Americas, registered a new record EBITDA amounted to R $3.6 billion in the first quarter of 2017. The performance meant an improvement of 16% as compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary unaudited results. In dollars, the Company''s EBITDA reached $ $1.1 billion in the period, which accounted for 45% growth in comparison with the first quarter of 2016.
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Dow affixed to the national market growth of polyethylene
4/18/2017 -
According to the management of packaging and Plastics Division of Dow Chemical, the levels of consumption of polyethylene (PE) in Brazil are stabilizing next presented levels before the crisis. The evaluation can be received with relief to the sector, which has suffered falls in consumption over the past two years exceeding 10%. If confirmed the good expectation to 2017, the Dow can consider investing and more production of PE in South America, despite that the expansion would take place probabl
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Braskem expands production of special polyethylenes in Bahia
1/28/2015 -
Braskem completed investment of approximately r $ 50 million in one of its factories in Bahia to enlarge the production capacity of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) in 120 thousand tons per year.
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Polyethylenes are the most commonly used resins in flexible packaging in 2013
3/20/2014 -
Study of Maxiquim recently released by Abief (Associação Brasileira da Indústria Flexible plastic packaging), exclusively for his associates, concluded that the flexible plastic packaging industry was responsible for 79 percent of all consumption the LLDPE (linear low density polyethylene) marketed in Brazil in 2013, the equivalent of 769 thousand tons. The main user of these packaging industry was food, with participation of 35%, followed by industrial, 16%, and personal hygiene and household c
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Braskem expands portfolio of HDPE resins for shrink films
9/13/2013 -
Braskem expands its portfolio of resins of high density polyethylene (HDPE) with the HD7600 family, specially designed to meet the heat shrinkable films segment (secondary packaging for Unitization of cans and bottles), also known as shrink films.
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