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Artificial Intelligence and the Chemical Supply Chains of the Future
The benefits that automated process and artificial intelligence (AI) bring to chemistry laboratories and chemical engineering development are...
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The benefits that automated process and artificial intelligence (AI) bring to chemistry laboratories and chemical engineering development are...
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Monopropylene glycol (MPG) – often called simply propylene glycol – is essential to a wide range of products across a variety of industries and...
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A renewable technology hailed as revolutionary in the 2010s may emerge as a choice route to deliver key intermediate chemicals in the future. When...
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It could be considered one of the plastics world's most contradictory materials. Notoriously under-recycled due to technical difficulty, polyurethane...
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2020 has been a very challenging year for European plasticizer producers. Following a terrible second quarter, as consumption, particularly in...
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The present moment is an unprecedented challenge; for the world of engineering thermoplastics, there has been a chance to serve the needs of key...
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While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused havoc in the chemical industry worldwide, plasticizer markets have been particularly affected as the main...
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Since the start of 2020, we have seen Brent crude oil futures fall from just under $70/bbl to $23/bbl. MEG values followed, plummeting from $608/ton...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and intensified challenges within the international butyl acrylate market to an extent not previously seen....
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As some chemical companies ramped up their production of ingredients for sanitising and disinfectant products, several biofuel companies and...
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The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting disruption to economies around the world has had a major impact on global synthetic fibers demand – with a...
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Everything is uncertain and challenges abound for individuals, industries and society at large in the context of today’s COVID-19 pandemic....