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<title>Chemical Week Magazine :: Basic Chemicals &amp; Plastics :: Chemical Week</title>
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<copyright>2013</copyright>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:32:22 MDT</pubDate>

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<title>Production returns to North America on back of shale gas surge</title>
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<title>European caprolactam margins come under pressure</title>
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<title>US chlor-alkali exports, margins rising on shale advantage</title>
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<title>Chlorine Institute’s safety mission supports chlor-alkali opportunity</title>
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<title>Fundamentals support new butadiene capacity in Europe</title>
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<title>Ethylene outlook muted by weak demand, supply surge</title>
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<title>IHS WPC: Feedstocks have divided industry into haves and have-nots</title>
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<title>Feedstock, demand shifts transform LAO dynamics</title>
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<title>Tightening aromatics present new opportunities for refiners</title>
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<title>Global chemicals trade to boom on rising middle class, advantaged feeds</title>
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