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Jane Denny: Jan 29, 2025 10:18:29 AM
2024 was a challenging year for the European plasticizers market with demand failing to pick up. Key end markets remained subdued as economic...
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Jane Denny: Jan 22, 2025 11:17:13 AM
Demand for maleic anhydride from downstream sectors—including automotive, construction, and electronics, as well as the crucial unsaturated polyester...
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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 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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Jane Denny: Nov 7, 2024 4:57:04 PM
As the global chemicals industry adjusts to pervasive oversupply versus dwindling demand, we dig into our 10-year archive of price points for over...
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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: 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: 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 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...
