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How a US Gulf Coast Snow Flurry Roused Quiet Markets
Not enough years have passed for the Texas Big Freeze shockwaves to have fully exited the chemicals sector consciousness just yet. So severe was its...
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AFPM 2024: Expert Team for the International Petrochemical Conference
ResourceWise (formerly Tecnon OrbiChem) has attended the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers’ springtime event—the International...
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European Bioplastics Conference Panel Discussion: What Future in Europe?
As the world looks to meet the Net Zero aspirations considered vital to a sustainable future, plastics occupy an increasingly precarious position.
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Polyamide Plastics: Opportunity and Trade Options in 2024
The world has changed a great deal since ladies’ stockings introduced the new engineered thermoplastic Nylon at the New York World's Fair in 1939....
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Glycerine: A 21st Century Biobased Feedstock Sweet Spot?
It is two centuries since French scientist Michel Chevreul, an organic chemistry founder, described the oleochemical glycerine in a patent....
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Barge, Truck or Train? Panama Ships and Supply Chains
During a particularly poignant moment in Apple TV's drama series The Morning Show, UBA weatherman Yanko Flores defines El Niño. It is, he laments,...
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Can White Hydrogen Answer Humanity’s Fundamental Energy Needs?
The chemical industry, the high-volume sector of the industry in particular, pivots on the conversion of fairly inert carbonaceous matter into...
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Global Supply Chain Statistics: Trade Transparency Visualized
It is one thing to know the price a chemical is currently valued in the market, a service that ResourceWise company Tecnon OrbiChem has provided for...
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Is the US Automotive Sector Strike Impacting Chemicals Supply Chains?
The automotive sector is operating in a contradictory landscape at present. This year alone, it has been subject to pent-up demand driven by Covid,...
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Renewables, Low Carbon-Intensity Chemicals and ESG at EPCA '23
Discussions on low carbon or sustainable feedstocks at European Petrochemical Association gatherings – even ten years ago – were rare. Back then,...
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Footwear Feedstocks Price Forecast: A Chemicals Cost Comparison
The footwear sector is huge – with as many as 24 billion pairs produced annually – but it is also quickly evolving. Whether we're talking raw...
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Sustainable Trade Europe: Internal Carbon Price and Raw Materials
The European Union is imposing a raft of new reporting responsibilities which are set out in the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).