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Chevron Phillips Chemical Announces Management Changes at Saudi Arabian Joint Ventures Chevron Phillips Chemical announced several senior management changes affecting its joint ventures in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
SIIG and ACP Announce New Projects in Al-Jubail SIIG and ACP announced today they intend to build a Polyamide 6,6 manufacturing plant and a number of polymer conversion projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
New RLOC Facility Inaugurated in Qatar Qatari state officials, along with representatives from Qatar Petroleum, Qatofin, Chevron Phillips Chemical and Total, held a ceremony to inaugurate Ras Laffan Olefins Company (RLOC) at the new plant’s site in Ras Laffan Industrial City.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Achieves Best Ever Safety Performance The company announced today that employees and contractors working at 36 manufacturing facilities across the globe set a company-wide record for outstanding safety performance during 2009.
Orange Plant Awarded VPP Star Designation The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has officially designated Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP’s Chevron Phillips Chemical's Orange Plant as a VPP Star site for its exemplary health and safety programs.
Resin Donation Provides Toys for Needy Children Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) announced today that the company will donate 12,500 pounds of polyethylene resin for the Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE) Detroit Section toy donation effort.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Recognizes Outstanding Environmental Stewardship The company named two facilities as recipients of the company’s 2009 President’s Environmental Award for outstanding environmental stewardship efforts.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Names New General Counsel Chevron Phillips Chemical today named Tim Hill as the company's senior vice president, legal and public affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary.
New Ryton® PPS Plant The new 10,000 metric-ton-per-year Ryton® PPS plant in Borger, Texas, is mechanically complete.
S-Chem Receives Environmental Performance Award For the second year in a row, Chevron Phillips Chemical's S-Chem facility has been awarded the 2008 First Place Award for Environmental Performance by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Royal Commission.
OSHA Recertifies Cedar Bayou Plant as VPP Star Site U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration officially recertified Chevron Phillips Chemical's Cedar Bayou Plant as a VPP Star site for its exemplary health and safety programs.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Announces New Board Member Chevron Phillips Chemical today announced the appointment of J. Stephen Farrand, of Chevron Corporation, to the company’s Board of Directors.

 Product News Releases

Chevron Phillips Chemical Puts the “Plus” in Normal Alpha Olefins Chevron Phillips Chemical will begin marketing its normal alpha olefins line of products under the trademark AlphaPlus® NAO.
Performance Pipe Introduces Autocoiled Packaging for Natural Gas Tubing Performance Pipe is now offering its ½”, ¾” and 1” coils of natural gas tubing in stretch-wrapped autocoils. Historically this tubing has been banded.
Phillips Sumika Selected as Supplier of the Year Phillips Sumika Polypropylene Company has been named Quality Supplier of the Year for 2009 by Rexam, the world’s second largest consumer packaging company.
K-Resin SBC KR05 Makes a Clear Difference in Food Packaging at InnoWare As a leading manufacturer of distinctive, high quality foodservice containers and paper tableware items, InnoWare, Inc. takes pride in producing top notch products that meet their customers' needs.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Debuts New PPS Grades Featuring Low Chlorine Content for Electronic/Electrical Applications With low halogen content standards becoming commonplace in the electronics industry, Chevron Phillips Chemical is introducing several new Ryton® polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin grades with chlorine content of less than 900 parts per million.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Introduces New Fiber Resins With three new fiber resins, Chevron Phillips Chemical is providing quality products to monofilament, multifilament, and staple fiber producers.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Offers a PPS Resin for Nearly Every Application With the completion of a new 10,000 metric ton per year PPS plant in Borger, Texas, Chevron Phillips Chemical offers the widest array of PPS polymer types and the world’s largest PPS capacity available in the plastics industry.
K-Resin® SBC KR52 Accomplishes More with Less With more shelf impact, more application benefits, and less hassle, K-Resin® SBC KR52 provides multiple benefits in yield, printability, and blend capability over other shrink film materials.
Americhem Selected as TrackTek® Racing Fuel Distributor in Midwest Chevron Phillips Chemical selected Americhem Sales Corporation to be its distributor for TrackTek® racing fuels in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Ohio.
New Mining Chemicals Laboratory Offers Technical Support to Customers Centrally located to mines in the Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico areas, a new Mining Chemicals office and laboratory handles orders, customer service, in-house testing, and, as needed, offsite support to existing and potential customers.
Performance Pipe: the Preferred Solution for Important Projects On Wednesday, October 29, the Guttenberg Press reported the failure of a 12-inch fused PVC pipeline located near Guttenberg, Iowa. The decision was made to complete that portion of the project with High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) pipe.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Adds New Blow Molding Machine Chevron Phillips Chemical recently added new processing equipment to its Plastics Technical Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to provide customers with additional technical service opportunities.

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