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Jane Denny: Aug 19, 2024, 2:35:26 PM
European and US-based epoxy resin producers have triggered anti-dumping investigations against Asian producers in a bid to stop cheap imports....
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Jane Denny: Aug 14, 2024, 3:31:33 AM
Automotive industry participants have made great strides in improving the sector's sustainability profile since the 1990s. In fact, catalytic...
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Jane Denny: Aug 8, 2024, 7:21:38 AM
The synthetic polymer unsaturated polyester resin is used in various industrial applications and has been for nearly a century. Durability and...
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Jane Denny: Aug 5, 2024, 9:46:02 AM
Oleochemicals markets are poised for volatility as the effects of economic protectionism and environmental regulation ripple across nature-based...
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Jane Denny: Jul 25, 2024, 9:53:21 AM
Trade bodies, including the Petrochemical Alliance of Oklahoma, are celebrating the Supreme Court's June decision to scrap the decades-old Chevron...
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Jane Denny: Jul 19, 2024, 9:27:40 AM
When plants producing feedstocks for intermediates and end products idle—or shut down completely—during economic downturns, the impacts are not...
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Jane Denny: Jul 15, 2024, 2:02:01 PM
A decade ago, a unique concept car built using eco-friendly polyols by a 185-year-old US-based company left some sector participants scratching their...
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Jane Denny: Jul 2, 2024, 1:49:52 PM
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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Jane Denny: Jun 26, 2024, 8:58:14 AM
Oleochemical is a term derived from the Latin oleum, meaning olive oil. But, like much inherited Latin, it is a misleading collective noun for the...
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Jane Denny: Jun 13, 2024, 2:29:23 PM
In today’s money, the first comprehensive world market paraxylene survey ever published would set a buyer back US$33,000. In fact, it was the...
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Jane Denny: Jun 6, 2024, 11:43:53 AM
The famous line about “Plastics” from the 1967 film The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, continues to enjoy iconic status...
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Jane Denny: May 29, 2024, 9:23:45 AM
Thousands of years ago—it is thought—Neanderthals used birch bark tree tar (Betula) for primitive dentistry applications. Last year, it was...
