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Join ResourceWise at AFPM's International Petrochemical Conference 2025
The Industry's Premier Petrochemical Event The AFPM International Petrochemical Conference (IPC) is among the world's largest and most prestigious...
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28th World Chlor-Alkali Conference 2025
It has been nearly half a century since the first-ever iteration of the premier event, the World Chlor-Alkali Conference. The legacy company that...
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Plasticizer Markets: Review 2024 and 2025 Outlook
2024 was a challenging year for the European plasticizers market with demand failing to pick up. Key end markets remained subdued as economic...
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Maleic Anhydride Markets: Review 2024 and 2025 Outlook
Demand for maleic anhydride from downstream sectors—including automotive, construction, and electronics, as well as the crucial unsaturated polyester...
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Orthoxylene and Phthalic Anhydride: 2024 Review and 2025 Outlook
As the second largest outlet for the intermediate chemical phthalic anhydride, unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) markets remain key. What happens in...
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US Port Strike Threat: Impact on the Chemical Supply Chain
In a globalized business world that relies on an effective global shipping industry, trickle-down impacts from maritime upheaval are keenly felt. The...
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Engineered Plastics for High Voltage Automotive Applications
The electric vehicle revolution and battery-powered transportation systems are introducing increasingly higher-voltage components to human mobility....
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Unravelling Chlor-alkali Pricing, Supply and Demand 2014 to 2024 (Part III)
In Part III of our Chemicals A to Z series exploring shifts in the price points of key chemicals over the past 10 years we turn our focus to the...
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Understanding the Global Polyester Chain
Currently, there is low profitability for producers in the polyester chain in all regions. This blog post is designed to provide an indication of...
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Aromatics, Acrylonitrile and Phthalic Anhydride Ten Years to Q4 2024 (Part II)
The global chemicals industry looks very different today than it did a decade ago. In Part II of our series exploring just how much this vital sector...
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Carbon Dioxide Removal: Counting the Cost
Back when I was a mere twinkle in the petrochemicals’ price reporting agency (PRA) industry’s eye, the practical joke and conundrum: “What's heavier?...
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Chemicals A-Z: Acetyls to Xylenes Ten Years to Q4 2024 (The Series)
As the global chemicals industry adjusts to pervasive oversupply versus dwindling demand, we dig into our 10-year archive of price points for over...