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How to Plan and Budget for Direct Materials Purchases
Budgets are financial plans that play a crucial role in the success and profitability of businesses. For companies that rely on raw materials as...
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How to Plan and Budget for Direct Materials Purchases
Budgets are financial plans that play a crucial role in the success and profitability of businesses. For companies that rely on raw materials as...
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PET & Its Raw Materials: Outlook for 2023, & 2022 in Review
As we look to the PET sector's high season - Q2 2023 - market participants will be keen to lower the paraxylene cost disparity compared to Asia. It...
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Chemicals Industry Crystal Ball: Pricing Up Over 40 Chemicals to 2024
The final white paper in the series A chemicals industry crystal ball leverages datasets from Tecnon OrbiChem's ChemForesight service to indicate...
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Ukraine-Russia: Trade Impact Analysis Autumn 2022
Already high, volatile and uncertain gas prices – within Europe in particular – were exacerbated by the suspected sabotage of Baltic Sea gas pipes at...
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Retreat of Western Investment in - and Reliance on - China
For several decades until last year, China was regarded as the workshop of the world. Businessmen and women flocked there to have the production of...
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Profitability in 2022: West Welcomes Sharp Improvement
There is exceptional profitability for products in the polyester chain in Europe and the US today. Heightened local prices and good profits are...
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Maleic Anhydride - New entrants to market set to cause disruption
Global maleic anhydride markets have experienced a sharp upturn in late 2020 and 2021 following the negative growth seen in 2020 as markets continued...
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Who is making money in the polyester chain? Changes and challenges in 2022
Depending on the origin and destination, the cost of freight today represents almost one-third of the cfr value/price of exports imports by America...
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Developing Renewable Polycarbonates: A Balancing Act
There are limited developments and commercialisation in the field of plant-based polycarbonates due to the complicated technical properties of the...