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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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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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Automotive Tires for a Sustainable World
Automotive industry participants have made great strides in improving the sector's sustainability profile since the 1990s. In fact, catalytic...
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Hurricane Season and Chemicals Supply Chains
This article was updated on September 11, 2024. See the updated section below The US hurricane season brings heightened levels of uncertainty to...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Chemical Supply Chains of the Future
The benefits that automated process and artificial intelligence (AI) bring to chemistry laboratories and chemical engineering development are...
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10 Essential Steps for Navigating the Methanol Market
The methanol market has been evolving at an unprecedented pace, with stakeholders encountering various opportunities and challenges from regulatory,...
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Chlor-Alkali Markets: What is Happening in 2024
The global chlor-alkali industry is locked in turbulent times. As efforts by producers to mitigate the sector’s long-term availability issues...
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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...