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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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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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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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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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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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Chemicals Sector South Korea: Adapt or Dwindle Approach
South Korean petrochemical firms are adapting their business portfolios to combat oversupplied markets amidst a bearish demand for products.
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Removing carbon dioxide from the air: Direct air capture
Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 has hit headlines recently. A concept related to strategies of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture...
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Plasticizer Market Analysis 2023: An Overview
With the year 2023 now into its second half, plasticizer and oxo-alcohol markets remain relatively stagnant globally. Demand failed to pick up as...
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Boost in Biosurfactants Output Supports Sustainable Goals
The production of surfactants by combining biomass and microorganisms – such as bacterial agents – is an innovation that is increasingly gaining...
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Boost in Biosurfactants Output Supports Sustainable Goals
The production of surfactants by combining biomass and microorganisms – such as bacterial agents – is an innovation that is increasingly gaining...