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For one reason or another supply of PVC in several regions around the world has been disrupted over the last six months. In Europe, the region saw an unprecedented number of outages during the third and fourth quarters, when at times almost every...
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The historically cold winter storm that struck the US Gulf Coast beginning the weekend of 13-14 February led to widespread shutdowns of petrochemical...
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This article originally appeared on Fisher International's FI Insights blog on 3 February 2021. Growing sustainability trends and concerns about...
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The concerns relating to the availability of PET in December, as European producers struggled to bring plants back online following scheduled...
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Investments are ramping up for chemicals, materials, and fuel using woody biomass and pulp by-products for feedstock. Supply and demand for crude...
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Global maleic anhydride markets were booming in the last quarter of 2020 and the early part of the New Year. China was a little ahead of the curve...
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I can barely keep up with news and capacity announcement on renewable diesel/HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil), so I’ll just mention two big ones that...
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Unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) prices have been on an upward trajectory since the fourth quarter of 2020. Consecutive price increase announcements...
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As we moved into the Q4 2020, outstanding demand of PET in the US has improved the performance of producers in America. Not only in the US and North...
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Shifting demand patterns, a string of production outages, and the consequence of low industry stocks have lifted butyl acrylate prices dramatically...
