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| 07/25/2008 | Winpak Reports Second Quarter Earnings |
| 07/25/2008 | Portola Packaging, Inc. Reaches Agreement on Restructuring with Senior Lenders and Holders of Senior Notes |
| 07/25/2008 | Eastman Announces Second-Quarter 2008 Financial Results |
| 07/25/2008 | BRIEFING - ASIA ENERGY - JULY 25, 2008 |
| 07/25/2008 | Energy prices hurting Myers' sales: Akron plastics maker seeks to lower costs, apply new initiatives |
| 07/24/2008 | NOVA Chemicals: Outstanding Operating Results - Outlook for Second Half Even Stronger |
| 07/24/2008 | Ashland Inc. Reports Fiscal Third-Quarter Net Income of $1.13 Per Share |
| 07/24/2008 | SaveThePlasticBag.com Sues Los Angeles County to Overturn Plastic Bag Ban |
| 07/24/2008 | Myers Industries Reports 2008 Second Quarter & Six-Month Results |
| 07/24/2008 | Dow Reports Second Quarter Results |
| 07/23/2008 | Tupperware Brands Reports Second-Quarter Results |
| 07/23/2008 | Second Quarter 2008 Westlake Chemical Corporation Earnings Conference Call |
| 07/23/2008 | Pactiv 2Q net earns fall below analyst expectations |
| 07/23/2008 | Foam food containers banned from L.A. city buildings |
| 07/23/2008 | Sinopec Shanghai Q2 refining loss over 700 mln yuan - report |
| 07/23/2008 | Silgan Holdings Announces a 24 Percent Increase in Second Quarter Earnings and Raises Full Year 2008 Estimate |
| 07/22/2008 | Pliant Modernizes and Expands Canadian Operations |
| 07/22/2008 | Oil prices firm, with eyes on Gulf of Mexico storm |
| 07/22/2008 | SABIC reports net profits of SR 14.5 billion |
| 07/21/2008 | Saint-Gobain Crystals Announces Opening of New Production Facility in Hiram, Ohio |
| 07/21/2008 | Ferro Purchases Grinding Fluids Business from Fluid Logic LLC |
| 07/21/2008 | Celanese Corporation Reports Record Second Quarter Results; Reaffirms 2008 Outlook |
| 07/21/2008 | VIETNAM LICENSES US$3.7 BLN PETROCHEM JV WITH THAI PLASTIC, CHEM |
| 07/21/2008 | Dow, Kuwait Petroleum To Base Joint Plastics Venture K-Dow Petrochemicals In Michigan |
| 07/21/2008 | JER Envirotech Announces Record Financial Results for Q3 2008 |
| 07/21/2008 | Zhenhai Petrochemical Company Limited to upgrade and increase refining capacity |
| 07/18/2008 | US PLASTIC RESIN PRICES EASE SLIGHTLY; TRADE VOLUMES STAY LOW: The Plastics Exchange |
| 07/17/2008 | Cereplast Provides Business and Sales Update; Sales Growth in Line with 2008 Plan |
| 07/17/2008 | Cytec Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results |
| 07/17/2008 | Sinopec to build ethylene project in Hainan Province |
| 07/16/2008 | Huntsman Expects 2nd Quarter Adjusted EBITDA to Increase Approximately 10% |
| 07/16/2008 | Ecuador,Venezuela to build biggest oil refinery on South America's Pacific coast |
| 07/16/2008 | Sunoco Elects Lynn Laverty Elsenhans Chief Executive Officer and President; John G. Drosdick to Retire |
| 07/15/2008 | Portola Packaging Reports Preliminary Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results |
| 07/15/2008 | Dow and PIC of Kuwait Continue Progress on Proposed $11B Joint Venture |
| 07/15/2008 | Alcan Packaging to acquire cosmetic tubes facility in Russia |
| 07/15/2008 | Clorox Announces Preliminary Financial Information for Q4 and FY'08 |
| 07/15/2008 | PolyOne Announces Formation of PolyOne Polymers India Pvt. Ltd. |
| 07/15/2008 | Newell Rubbermaid announces plan to reduce commodity exposure |
| 07/15/2008 | Eaton Reports Record Quarterly Sales And Profits, With Sales Up 32 Percent And Profits Up 35 Percent Over Second Quarter Of 2007 |
| 07/14/2008 | The Plastics Exchange Week in Review |
| 07/14/2008 | Illinois Tool Works Buys Dow Chemical's Trymer Unit For Undisclosed Sum |
| 07/14/2008 | Saudi Basic Industries To Market Aramco's China Petrochemical Output |
| 07/11/2008 | Westlake Appoints Don Condon to Lead Olefins Business |
| 07/11/2008 | Hilex Poly Co. emerges from bankruptcy |
| 07/11/2008 | INDIAN OFFICIALS HOLD TALKS WITH PETRO-CHEM INDUSTRY ON PRICES |
| 07/11/2008 | Oil-Hungry Guangdong Plans Oil Refining Projects |
| 07/11/2008 | India's Reliance Industries Limited selects North Carolina for first North American manufacturing plant |
| 07/11/2008 | Ashland to Acquire Hercules |
| 07/10/2008 | Chevron Issues Interim Update for Second Quarter 2008 |
| 07/10/2008 | Fitch Downgrades & Places Dow Chemical Company on Rating Watch Negative |
| 07/10/2008 | Brazil's Anti-Trust Agency Approves Braskem's Acquisition of the Ipiranga Group Petrochemical Assets |
| 07/10/2008 | Westlake Appoints Andrew Kenner as Vice President of Manufacturing |
| 07/10/2008 | Sunoco to Release Second Quarter Earnings |
| 07/10/2008 | Chemical Week Announces Complete List of Speakers for 13th Annual CFO Conference in New York |
| 07/10/2008 | Dow Chemical to Acquire Rohm & Haas for $18.8 Billion |
| 07/10/2008 | Clariant Acquires Rite Systems/Ricon Colors to Strengthen Masterbatches' North American Position |
| 07/10/2008 | Weak Economy Impacting Pactiv |
| 07/09/2008 | Trex Company to Report Second Quarter 2008 Results on July 30 |
| 07/09/2008 | CMAI Offers Annual Plastics Processors Conference & Polyolefins Industry Workshop in Both the Americas & Europe; Registration Is Now Open |
| 07/09/2008 | Hilex Emerges From Chapter 11 |
| 07/09/2008 | AERT Releases Q2 Unaudited Sales of $24.8M...First Half Sales Up 12 Percent |
| 07/08/2008 | Galway Plastics Group Taps Calif. Site for film facility |
| 07/08/2008 | A. Schulman Appoints General Managers of Asia and Europe Operations |
| 07/08/2008 | Eastman Chemical names Curtis Espeland as CFO, succeeding Richard Lorraine |
| 07/07/2008 | The Plastics Exchange Week in Review |
| 07/07/2008 | Middle East plastic industry projected to record 30 per cent annual growth over next five years |
| 07/07/2008 | CHINA'S PETROCHEM SECTOR TO SEE NEGATIVE PROFIT GROWTH: EXPERTS |
| 07/07/2008 | Petrobras, ConocoPhillips sign wide-ranging co-operation agreement |
| 07/07/2008 | Nova Roll and Pliant Announce Russian Joint Venture |
| 07/07/2008 | Milacron Sets Q2 Earnings Release and Investor Call for July 31 |
| 07/04/2008 | Bernardo Gradin is Appointed New CEO of Braskem |
| 07/03/2008 | Cereplast Compostables(R) Resins Granted U.S. Patent for Composition |
| 07/03/2008 | Hicks Acquisition, Blackstone to take Graham Packaging public |
| 07/03/2008 | Winpak Announces the Acquisition of Walsroder Packaging LLC, a Subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company |
| 07/02/2008 | Iraq Opens Bidding On Eight Oil, Natural Gas Field, To Add Possible 1.5B Barrels Daily |
| 07/02/2008 | ExxonMobil Joint Ventures to Outpace Industry in New LNG Capacity |
| 07/02/2008 | NOVA Chemicals Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary |
| 07/02/2008 | PolyOne Streamlines Organization and Presentation of Financial Results |
| 07/01/2008 | Hunstman, Hexion merger gets EC approval, with condition |
| 07/01/2008 | China's Sinopec Group to cut ethylene output further, increase fuel supply |
| 07/01/2008 | Total president says co on verge of signing Iraq oil service contract |
| 07/01/2008 | Silgan Holdings to Release Second Quarter Results on July 23, 2008 |
| 06/30/2008 | Solutia Retains HSBC to Explore Strategic Alternatives for Its Nylon Business |
| 06/30/2008 | Hicks Acquisition Company I, Inc. to Combine with Graham Packaging in Partnership with Blackstone-Led Group in $3.2 Billion Transaction |
| 06/30/2008 | The Plastics Exchange Week in Review |
| 06/27/2008 | Wellman, Inc. Files Its Plan of Reorganization |
| 06/27/2008 | Iran and Sasol announces opening of world's largest olefin complex |
| 06/27/2008 | LyondellBasell Industries Subsidiary to Stop Producing LDPE at its Pasadena, Texas, Facility |
| 06/26/2008 | Ball to Close Brampton, Ontario, Plastic Packaging Plant |
| 06/26/2008 | Lanxess to acquire two pigment plants in China to tap construction boom UPDATE |
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