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Jane Denny: Sep 3, 2024, 7:49:10 AM
As a chemical intermediate in the production of acrylics and polycarbonates, and key solvent compound, acetone underpins a wide range of end...
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Jane Denny: Aug 29, 2024, 11:18:32 AM
The electric vehicle (EV) sector could generate up to US$10 billion annually by 2028. The fact that EVs accounted for almost one in five cars sold...
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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: Apr 27, 2022, 6:28:15 AM
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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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Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 13, 2022, 9:35:30 AM
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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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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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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Javier Rivera: Jun 9, 2020, 12:00:00 AM
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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Rachel Uctas: May 27, 2020, 12:00:00 AM
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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Doris de Guzman: May 20, 2020, 12:00:00 AM
As some chemical companies ramped up their production of ingredients for sanitising and disinfectant products, several biofuel companies and...
