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Jane Denny: Apr 23, 2024 7:12:18 AM
The benefits that automated process and artificial intelligence (AI) bring to chemistry laboratories and chemical engineering development are...
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Jane Denny: Mar 22, 2024 1:21:43 PM
Global trade and markets for methanol, glycols, and solvents became more visible and transparent. With the launch of its second chemicals pricing,...
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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: Feb 27, 2024 4:06:03 PM
Maleic anhydride is an important intermediate chemical. Currently, capacity to produce is in excess of 5000 ktpa globally. Over two-thirds of the...
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Jane Denny: Feb 19, 2024 10:05:41 AM
Phthalic anhydride is used to produce phthalate-based PVC plasticizers, resins and coatings. Orthoxylene is the key feedstock for manufacturing...
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Jane Denny: Jan 29, 2024 3:09:01 PM
Not enough years have passed for the Texas Big Freeze shockwaves to have fully exited the chemicals sector consciousness just yet. So severe was its...
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Jane Denny: Jan 18, 2024 1:00:28 PM
ResourceWise (formerly Tecnon OrbiChem) has attended the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers’ springtime event—the International...
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Jane Denny: Jan 11, 2024 6:22:21 AM
As the world looks to meet the Net Zero aspirations considered vital to a sustainable future, plastics occupy an increasingly precarious position.
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Jane Denny: Jan 3, 2024 11:23:31 AM
The world has changed a great deal since ladies’ stockings introduced the new engineered thermoplastic Nylon at the New York World's Fair in 1939....
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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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Jane Denny: Dec 4, 2023 2:35:12 PM
It is two centuries since French scientist Michel Chevreul, an organic chemistry founder, described the oleochemical glycerine in a patent....
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Jane Denny: 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,...
