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July 17, 2023

Chemicals Output in a Conflict-locked Post-Covid World

Earlier this year, BASF Chairman Martin Brudermüller warned that Europe was increasingly losing its chemicals sector competitive edge. His comments followed the announcement of permanent plant closures at the company's home base of...

Isocyanates

June 19, 2023

Global Isocyanates Markets 2023: Mid-Year Review

A whitepaper Tecnon OrbiChem published earlier in 2023 outlined the reasons why isocyanates markets had been seasonally quiet a year prior. Logistics issues, it said, had impacted North American markets. Demand for methylene diphenyl...

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Bioenergy

February 15, 2023

Transforming fuels & feedstock: Old carbon to low carbon - AFPM talk

What do chemicals, forestry and renewable fuels value chains all have in common? Well,...

Supply Chain

October 13, 2022

Ukraine-Russia: Trade impact analysis Autumn 2022

Already high, volatile and uncertain gas prices – within Europe in particular – were...

Caustic Soda

October 11, 2022

Next global chemical shortage, caustic soda

Caustic soda demand could exceed global capacity in the latter half of this decade....

Caustic Soda

August 8, 2022

Chlor-alkali 2022: Key factors driving China's markets

China’s Dual Control Policy sharply reduced caustic soda production in the country in Q4...

Polyamide

July 20, 2022

Chemical industry: Russia–Ukraine war impact analysis July 2022

Russian-origin raw material for unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) production is entering...

Acrylic Acid

July 12, 2022

New chemical industry imperatives: Expanding inventory & making supply chains robust

Factories need to keep inventory, to guard against delayed delivery of vital feedstocks...

Supply Chain

June 16, 2022

Retreat of Western investment in - and reliance on - China

For several decades until last year, China was regarded as the workshop of the world....

Caustic Soda

May 31, 2022

Chlor-alkali webinar to draw on insight spanning five decades

Just as Tecnon OrbiChem consultants began preparing presentations for the Chlor-Alkali in...

Sustainability

May 18, 2022

Sustainability boost from promising profit: Concept to reality bio-PET

The largest PET producers reported extraordinary results in 2021 and Q1 2022. Along with...

Sustainability

May 11, 2022

Polycarbonates from renewable hydrocarbons

It’s no secret that plant-based polycarbonate (PC) can be problematic. Not only does the...

Sustainability

April 27, 2022

Biobased monopropylene glycol: The bumpy road to a decarbonised world

Monopropylene glycol (MPG) – often called simply propylene glycol – is essential to a...

Sustainability

April 13, 2022

Biobased succinic acid: Is the sustainable route becoming economically viable once more?

A renewable technology hailed as revolutionary in the 2010s may emerge as a choice route...

Sustainability

April 13, 2022

Sustainable routes to polyurethane

It could be considered one of the plastics world's most contradictory materials....

Polyamide

April 1, 2022

3D PRINTING - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING - RAPID PROTOTYPING

Additive manufacturing (AM) – or 3D printing – is a technique for producing solid objects...

Sustainability

April 1, 2022

A METHANE ROUTE TO ETHYLENE

Ethylene (C2H4) is a key chemical for producing a huge range of chemicals, polymers and...

Petrochemical Trends

April 1, 2022

COMPOSITES MARKETS IN A CHANGING WORLD

Encapsulating a building in popcorn may sound like a crazy way to boost energy efficiency...

Energy Sources

April 1, 2022

SOLAR ENERGY BOOM SPARKS EVA CAPACITY EXPANSIONS

That the sun is capable ofsupplying enough solar power to meet all earth’s annual energy...

Sustainability

April 1, 2022

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY FORECASTS – LONG- AND SHORT-TERM

Tecnon OrbiChem founder Charles Fryer's predictions for the chemical industry from 2022...

Bioenergy

April 1, 2022

INNOVATION IN PYROLYSIS PICKS UP PACE IN Q4 2021

The potential for pyrolysis to tackle waste and increase circularity in plastics...

Chemical Supply and Demand

March 29, 2022

UKRAINE-RUSSIA: TRADE IMPACT ANALYSIS

Heavy sanctions continue to cripple trade between Russia and the Western world as a...

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Chemicals Output in a Conflict-locked Post-Covid World

Global Isocyanates Markets 2023: Mid-Year Review

Posts about Chemical Supply and Demand:

Transforming fuels & feedstock: Old carbon to low carbon - AFPM talk

Ukraine-Russia: Trade impact analysis Autumn 2022

Next global chemical shortage, caustic soda

Chlor-alkali 2022: Key factors driving China's markets

Chemical industry: Russia–Ukraine war impact analysis July 2022

New chemical industry imperatives: Expanding inventory & making supply chains robust

Retreat of Western investment in - and reliance on - China

Chlor-alkali webinar to draw on insight spanning five decades

Sustainability boost from promising profit: Concept to reality bio-PET

Polycarbonates from renewable hydrocarbons

Biobased monopropylene glycol: The bumpy road to a decarbonised world

Biobased succinic acid: Is the sustainable route becoming economically viable once more?

Sustainable routes to polyurethane

3D PRINTING - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING - RAPID PROTOTYPING

A METHANE ROUTE TO ETHYLENE

COMPOSITES MARKETS IN A CHANGING WORLD

SOLAR ENERGY BOOM SPARKS EVA CAPACITY EXPANSIONS

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY FORECASTS – LONG- AND SHORT-TERM

INNOVATION IN PYROLYSIS PICKS UP PACE IN Q4 2021

UKRAINE-RUSSIA: TRADE IMPACT ANALYSIS

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