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  2. Basell Polyolefins - Wikipedia

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    Basell was the world's largest producer of polypropylene and advanced polyolefins products, the world's largest producer of polyethylene, and a global leader in the development and licensing of polypropylene and polyethylene processes, and a leader [clarification needed] in catalysts.

  3. Braskem - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, Braskem acquired Politeno, the third largest polyethylene producer in Brazil. The company joined Petrobras and Ultrapar the following year in the biggest merger in Brazilian history, when those three companies acquired Grupo Ipiranga for US$4 billion. While Petrobras and Ultrapar shared the fuel distribution operations, Braskem took ...

  4. List of largest chemical producers - Wikipedia

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    Chemical & Engineering News publishes an annual list of the world's largest chemical producers by sales, excluding formulated products such as pharmaceutical drugs and coatings. [1] In 2018, sales of the top fifty companies amounted to US$ 951,000,000,000, an increase of 11.8% compared to the top fifty producers of 2017. [ 2 ]

  5. KBR Secures FEED Contract for One of the Largest High ... - AOL

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    KBR Secures FEED Contract for One of the Largest High-Density Polyethylene Plants in the Americas HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- KBR (NYS: KBR) announced today that it has been awarded a front-end ...

  6. BofA Downgrades LyondellBasell, Dow, Says Polyethylene ...

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    The rebound in polyethylene is likely to be more challenging and companies like LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE: LYB) and The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) could generate only modest ...

  7. Polyethylene - Wikipedia

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    Polyethylene was first synthesized by the German chemist Hans von Pechmann, who prepared it by accident in 1898 while investigating diazomethane. [12] [a] [13] [b] When his colleagues Eugen Bamberger and Friedrich Tschirner characterized the white, waxy substance that he had created, they recognized that it contained long −CH 2 − chains and termed it polymethylene.