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i(bir^;)-. ; Bmarketing informatior BP names Italy in ., hdPE dumping application bp Chemicals Jus' now included Italy in il* antidumping application on high* density polyethylene imports currently before the U1C Department oi Trade and Industry. - . UC'k initial application mentioned only the USA otid Japan as sources of the low-priced material. Exclusion of Italy from the original application is belierved to have been largely a matter of pic-FF.C entry protocol, the delay being mused by a DTI notification to ftjic EEC Commission in Brussels on the lumping charge.. The company has had little to say on the prices and levels of Italian material currently entering the UK, but reports from Italy maintain that all the Italian producers have been active ex porters to the U1C. BP is still believed to consider US materia) as the most disruptive of the three in its UK markets, and claims to be selling at the rate of only around 25000 lon/ycar - to a potential UK market of 65 000 ton/ycar due to heavy imports. Representations to the DTI nn the case must, he nude by October 6. Y*Japan de-toxicates PCBs v*hl! U-V two Japanese research bodies have an nounced successful aitcmpis to almost completely de toxicate polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs; by means of ultra* violet rays. . One of the bodies, the semi-govern* mental Institute of Physical and Chemi cal Urscurch, dissolved 0 2 grammes of P('B and 0 07 of a metallic sodium in 10 millilitres of 2-propyl alcohol, then bombarded the solution with ultra-violet rays from a 6-wail mercury lamp. All chlorine was precipitated as sodium chloride and a near-complete result was obtained in six hours and 40 minutes of operation. . > . - , The. Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Centre conducted its re search on a larger scale and obtained an almost complete result on 1 96 grammes of PCB with a 100-watt mercury lamp in 15 minutes. . , . Japanese to malic/'')/''4..' J PVC sheet in UK>>"'1 7 akiroN Chemical and two oilier Japanese companies are to set up a joint venture near Cardin, Wales, UI., i > manufacture PVC sheets, . A now compiny, Takiron UK, is to be established in Cardilf with an imli. I capital of 150000, owned 60 per cm* by Takiron and 20 prr cent bv C Jlnh and Chugai Boc!.>. I he faciiitic-. winch will be complete.' by cnd-1913, will use PVC resin supplied by ICI. Major markets for the products will be sought within Lite EEC. . Another Canadian plea tor polyester quotas - lhi. Canadian Textile Institute haeagain asked the Ottawa Government 'to ur gently impose quotas on polyester filament yarn imports. Yarn price* in Canada have fallen in 82 cerws/lb.. down front SI-75/lb. it. 1%7. Textured yarn prices arc only' 30 cents more, although (he indu>n> says that its costs are 43 cents/lb. ' The Institute hat asked Ottawa t rt- trie! imports to 13m. Ih./year, half from Europe and half from the "low cost countries.'' Stectlcy and NL agree OECD area output drops sharply holdings in Abbey Chemical AtiKiii.MENT has been reached between rut! OF.CD chemical industry continued tilizers rose by 7 per cent 'and in Canada Stcctley and NL Industries on new to kbow expansion rates more rapid than by 27 per cent. OECD, Publishers' arrangements for their joint venture. industrial output in genera) in 1970. but Office, 2 rue Andre Pmcal, 75775, Paris, Abbey Chemicals Ltd., which m.intdji- production ruse by 5 per cent compared Calex 16, , tines a range of Ih-ruone GHinnis used with 10 per cent in 1968/69. The US by the paint, plastics, inks and adlts-sise, where production rose by only 17 per cent, was the main influence in bring ing (lie overall average growdi rate Shell commissions phenol unit industries. Sleet ley's holding in UK-based Ahhev Chemicals will be reduced from 48 to down. shell Chemical* has commissioned its 30 per cent and Steetley wtll acquire This is one of the points in the OECD new phenol plant at Sianlow, Cheshire, a 30 per cent holding in the West (n r- report on the chemical industry 1970/ UK. .. . ., : man company, Bcnlonc Cbemic (imbli, 71. Capable 'of producing 100000 ton/ which has recently built a new pl.-ut The report, which is 188 pages long, year of phenol and 60000 ton/ycar o! at Nordenham, near Bremerhaven. to notes tlic supremacy of oil-based feed acetone. Hu plant was constructed by manufacture a similar range of products stock. It report* that the trend of greater ! Kcllo"**. A HI* Ohcmicals process based to meet higher German demand. expansion in the output of aromatic on cum.':n.! oxidation, <? used. In addition to the UK and West Ger rather than the aliphatic hydrocarbons - Some months after iihe announcement man plants, Steetley and NL Industries, continues. Inorganic chemicals showed of t!; - phenol. plant in 1970, Shell through Abbey Chemicals, bolds ,i IK a /all-oir in growth rate, although in Francai'c slated its intention-to con per cent interest in the l-n-m.-h comivmy. general the alkali industry made reason struct, a 100 000 tun/ycar cumene unit Bentone-Sud SA able progress m 1970. For example, pio- at its Pauillac refinery, near Bordeaux, duction of chlorinc/caustic soda rose ' , France, >" by 18 per cent in Japan and rather less Duo on-stream in mid-1972, tihe No more Dutch than half that in Western Europe. French cumene unit is scheduled to natural-gas export contracts! The fertilizer industry was particu- supply cumene to Similow for phenol me Netherlands has decided In cnn-1 Inrly sluggish during 1970; production .production. Ait the lime of going to elude no further contracts for the export I of nitrogenous krtih/ens in Western press, it was not known if the French of natural gas. according to a state-, Europe fell by I per cent, and there was unit was yet in production, but Shell mem by Mr. langman. the Dutch a marginal fall in the production of is likely to have secured alternative ' Minister for Economic Aflairs. con- prvtash fertilizers On the other hand, sources of cumene for *>n. months tinr*d in hie introduction rsf HONS C7C952