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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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ResourceWise: May 9, 2024 3:32:06 PM
The last time our team convened with chemicals industry experts and market participants at the Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference was 2019. This...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Dec 7, 2023 7:05:25 AM
PET industry participants in Europe and North America are locked in a fight for survival. What can the PET sector do to improve its outlook for 2024?...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Nov 28, 2023 9:57:21 AM
During a particularly poignant moment in Apple TV's drama series The Morning Show, UBA weatherman Yanko Flores defines El Niño. It is, he laments,...
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Jane Denny: Nov 10, 2023 12:07:39 PM
It is one thing to know the price a chemical is currently valued in the market, a service that ResourceWise company Tecnon OrbiChem has provided for...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Nov 3, 2023 2:55:59 PM
On 31 October 2023, the European Commission communicated the latest details of its anti-dumping investigation into Chinese polyethylene terephthalate...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Oct 25, 2023 4:37:12 PM
At the risk of perpetuating a troubling 2023 trope, the construction sector is contradictory on a global scale right now. While growing populations...
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South Korean petrochemical firms are adapting their business portfolios to combat oversupplied markets amidst a bearish demand for products.
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Feb 20, 2023 6:35:08 AM
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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Tecnon OrbiChem: Feb 14, 2023 4:34:00 AM
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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Carol Li and Lulu Zhao: Dec 16, 2021 12:00:00 AM
Domestic caustic soda supply was sufficient for the Chinese market in H1 2021 thanks to the country's chlor-alkali producers’ stable operating rates....
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Sam Uctas: Dec 8, 2021 12:00:00 AM
Both European and US unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) prices saw back-to-back monthly increases throughout the first half of 2021. The market...
