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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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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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Demand for maleic anhydride from downstream sectors—including automotive, construction, and electronics, as well as the crucial unsaturated polyester...
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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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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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The electric vehicle revolution and battery-powered transportation systems are introducing increasingly higher-voltage components to human mobility....
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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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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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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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Biobased and circular economies have emerged as globally impactful transformative forces in industry this decade. On the demand side, there is a...
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As the global chemicals industry adjusts to pervasive oversupply versus dwindling demand, we dig into our 10-year archive of price points for over...
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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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In line with other nations targeting fiscal policy to kickstart economic growth, China has plans to cut interest rates by the close of October 2024....