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ResourceWise: Jan 16, 2025 8:22:17 AM
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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ResourceWise: Jan 8, 2025 5:48:08 AM
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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ResourceWise: Dec 16, 2024 6:44:36 AM
The electric vehicle revolution and battery-powered transportation systems are introducing increasingly higher-voltage components to human mobility....
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ResourceWise: Dec 12, 2024 6:53:15 AM
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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ResourceWise: Dec 9, 2024 1:26:25 PM
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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ResourceWise: Nov 29, 2024 6:18:59 AM
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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ResourceWise: Jun 2, 2023 9:12:00 AM
In just a few weeks, Tecnon OrbiChem and partner I•C•I•S co-host their 26th World Chlor-Alkali Conference in Singapore. Our founder Charles Fryer...
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ResourceWise: Jul 29, 2021 12:00:00 AM
There are limited developments and commercialisation in the field of plant-based polycarbonates due to the complicated technical properties of the...
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ResourceWise: Jun 3, 2021 12:00:00 AM
As of 22 April, California, USA-based biofacturing company Zymergen began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “ZY” and...
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ResourceWise: May 18, 2021 12:00:00 AM
It has been a wild rollercoaster ride for the European and US UPR markets since September and October last year. The wheels were first set in motion...
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ResourceWise: Apr 15, 2021 12:00:00 AM
Kraton Corporation announced on 17 February a general price increase of 10% across its entire pine chemicals and alpha methyl styrene (AMS) resins...
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ResourceWise: Mar 18, 2021 12:00:00 AM
Plasticizer supply in Europe has been gradually tightening since the start of the summer of 2020 but tightness has reached a new level in the past...
