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Maleic Anhydride Markets: An Assessment for 2024
Maleic anhydride is an important intermediate chemical. Currently, capacity to produce is in excess of 5000 ktpa globally. Over two-thirds of the...
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Orthoxylene—Phthalic Anhydride Markets: What's Happening in 2024?
Phthalic anhydride is used to produce phthalate-based PVC plasticizers, resins and coatings. Orthoxylene is the key feedstock for manufacturing...
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Feedstock and Chemicals Supply Chains: A 2024 Assessment
A flurry of chemical deals were signed and sealed at the start of the new year. In part, activity was triggered by fear that the US Gulf Coast chill...
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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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Western PET Sector Profit Loss 2023: How Much and For How Long?
PET industry participants in Europe and North America are locked in a fight for survival. What can the PET sector do to improve its outlook for 2024?...
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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,...