me-metals: Lynas Rare Earths (ASX: LYC) has secured additional feedstock for its advanced materials plant in Malaysia by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Menteri Besar (MB), the strategic investment arm of Malaysia’s Kelantan state government.
News ID: 12048 Publish Date : 2025/06/02
Malaysia's Felda Sahabat palm oil plantation complex in Sabah state's Lahad Datu district has been ordered to close temporarily because of violations of Covid-19 movement control orders.
News ID: 9200 Publish Date : 2020/04/20
Malaysia has halted the nationwide implementation of its higher 20pc blending mandate (B20) in transport as it focuses on containing the Covid-19 outbreak.
News ID: 9173 Publish Date : 2020/04/16
Malaysia's Lotte Titan has restarted its main cracker after a major turnaround at its facilities in Pasir Gudang, Johor Bahru that started in early March.
News ID: 9069 Publish Date : 2020/04/08
Malaysia has extended a countrywide lockdown by two weeks to 14 April as the coronavirus continues to spread.
News ID: 8864 Publish Date : 2020/03/25
Malaysia today extended a countrywide lockdown by two weeks to 14 April to combat the spread of the coronavirus, a move expected to keep wood pellet factories closed for nearly a month.
News ID: 8859 Publish Date : 2020/03/25
Brazilian iron ore producer Vale will keep open its Teluk Rubiah iron ore blending terminal in Malaysia after discussions with government officials.
News ID: 8803 Publish Date : 2020/03/20
Malaysia's wood pellet factories will close until 31 March to comply with a 14-day lockdown in a bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus in the country. Malaysia is the second-largest wood pellet and palm kernel shell (PKS) producer in Asia.
News ID: 8782 Publish Date : 2020/03/19
Brazilian iron ore producer Vale has shut its Teluk Rubiah iron ore blending terminal in Malaysia until 31 March to comply with a lockdown aimed at slowing the coronavirus outbreak.
News ID: 8762 Publish Date : 2020/03/18
Malaysia's state-owned Petronas is likely to draw on its existing supplies of propylene and ethylene to continue running downstream polymer units after a fire hit its new petrochemical facility in Pengerang.
News ID: 8761 Publish Date : 2020/03/18
Updates dates on terminal closure in para 1 Clarifies closure process in para 2 Adds information on communication with the Malaysian government in para 4 Adds Vale's comments in para 5 Adds 2019 total receipt in para 6
News ID: 8758 Publish Date : 2020/03/18
Polymer exports from Malaysia's state-owned Petronas are expected to be affected after a second fire in 12 months at its new petrochemical facility in Pengerang.
News ID: 8731 Publish Date : 2020/03/16
Lotte Chemical Titan, the Malaysian unit of South Korean petrochemical producer Lotte Chemical, will shut its No. 2 naphtha-fed steam cracker for a 45-day turnaround in March.
News ID: 8475 Publish Date : 2020/02/24
Malaysia's only styrene monomer (SM) producer, Idemitsu Styrene Monomer (ISM), has reduced operating rates by 10pc at its 241,000 t/yr unit this month because of negative production margins.
News ID: 8268 Publish Date : 2020/01/09
A more volatile Turkish ferrous scrap deep-sea import price throughout 2019 has made it very difficult for European exporters to keep a stable margin and it is set to remain a major challenge in 2020.
News ID: 8151 Publish Date : 2019/12/30
Malaysia's state-owned Petronas is facing a 1½-month shutdown at its 1.65mn t/yr methanol line in Labuan following an outage.
News ID: 8001 Publish Date : 2019/12/18
Malaysia's state-owned Petronas is expected to be commercially ready with polymers output from its Pengerang complex by next year's first quarter.
News ID: 7806 Publish Date : 2019/12/06
Indian state-controlled refiner IOC is expected to increase production in the coming months at its new 700,000 t/yr polypropylene (PP) plant at Paradip in east India's Odisha state.
News ID: 7290 Publish Date : 2019/11/06
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says Malaysia cannot trade with Iran, one of its big trading partners, due to sanctions.
News ID: 7128 Publish Date : 2019/11/03
According to a Reuters report, Malaysia will issue bauxite mining licenses to companies in December or January, which will allow the miners to resume activities after the ban in early 2016 over unregulated mining and water contamination. The news came after Xavier Jayakumar, Malaysia’s water, land and natural resources minister announced this in a parliament.
News ID: 7122 Publish Date : 2019/11/04
