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PET Anti-dumping Update: Proposed Provisional Duties
On 31 October 2023, the European Commission communicated the latest details of its anti-dumping investigation into Chinese polyethylene terephthalate...
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Chemicals Markets in Housing, Construction and Infrastructure Worldwide
At the risk of perpetuating a troubling 2023 trope, the construction sector is contradictory on a global scale right now. While growing populations...
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Key Takeaways From a Premier Petrochemicals Event: EPCA Vienna 2023
Tecnon OrbiChem experts connected (and reconnected) with cohorts of petrochemicals-focused contacts cultivated over 50 years at the end of last...
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Chemicals Output in a Conflict-locked Post-Covid World
Earlier this year, BASF Chairman Martin Brudermüller warned that Europe was increasingly losing its chemicals sector competitive edge. His comments...
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Plasticizers and Their Raw Materials: eBook of Mid-year Analysis
Plasticizer market participants and producers within the sector's supply chain – plus raw materials producers – began the year with breath baited....
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Orthoxylene & Phthalic Anhydride Markets: Mid-year 2023
The Asia-focused supplement to our January 2023 blog post Orthoxylene - phthalic anhydride outlook for 2023 & year in review contained interviews...
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Global Isocyanates Markets 2023: Mid-Year Review
A whitepaper Tecnon OrbiChem published earlier in 2023 outlined the reasons why isocyanates markets had been seasonally quiet a year prior. Logistics...
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Waste, a misplaced resource: Harnessing Earth’s replenishable reserves
The term ‘unprecedented times’ has become almost synonymous with the 2020s. Outside of most living people’s memory, it is all too easy to imagine...
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PET & Its Raw Materials: Outlook for 2023, & 2022 in Review
As we look to the PET sector's high season - Q2 2023 - market participants will be keen to lower the paraxylene cost disparity compared to Asia. It...
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Chemicals Industry Crystal Ball: Pricing Up Over 40 Chemicals to 2024
The final white paper in the series A chemicals industry crystal ball leverages datasets from Tecnon OrbiChem's ChemForesight service to indicate...
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Ukraine-Russia: Trade Impact Analysis Autumn 2022
Already high, volatile and uncertain gas prices – within Europe in particular – were exacerbated by the suspected sabotage of Baltic Sea gas pipes at...
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Next Global Chemical Shortage, Caustic Soda
Caustic soda demand could exceed global capacity in the latter half of this decade. That’s what analysis of trends versus current and future...