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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,...
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Can White Hydrogen Answer Humanity’s Fundamental Energy Needs?
The chemical industry, the high-volume sector of the industry in particular, pivots on the conversion of fairly inert carbonaceous matter into...
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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,...