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Jane Denny: Mar 4, 2024 1:11:30 PM
The global chlor-alkali industry is locked in turbulent times. As efforts by producers to mitigate the sector’s long-term availability issues...
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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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Tecnon OrbiChem: Oct 10, 2023 4:30:45 PM
Tecnon OrbiChem experts connected (and reconnected) with cohorts of petrochemicals-focused contacts cultivated over 50 years at the end of last...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Jun 26, 2023 3:09:28 PM
Plasticizer market participants and producers within the sector's supply chain – plus raw materials producers – began the year with breath baited....
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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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ResourceWise: Oct 19, 2020 12:00:00 AM
2020 has been a very challenging year for European plasticizer producers. Following a terrible second quarter, as consumption, particularly in...
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Rachel Uctas: Sep 25, 2020 12:00:00 AM
Nearly nine months after the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Wuhan, China, the pandemic has had a striking but varied impact on key downstream...
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Yazmine Khan: Aug 10, 2020 12:00:00 AM
Like most petrochemical markets, the global UPR markets took a big hit following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020. European and US...
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Jennifer Hawkins: Aug 3, 2020 12:00:00 AM
Acetone has seen some dramatic lows and highs since 2018. Global supply has gone from huge oversupply to very tight in less than two years. During...
