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A line graph showing several price points for caustic soda in North America.

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Unravelling Chlor-alkali Pricing, Supply and Demand 2014 to 2024 (Part III)

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...

A pie chart image showing the breakdown of production capacity for phthalic anhydride.

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Aromatics, Acrylonitrile and Phthalic Anhydride Ten Years to Q4 2024 (Part II)

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...

A starburst infographic showing the locations of methanol outputs in the world.

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Chemicals A-Z: Acetyls to Xylenes Ten Years to Q4 2024 (The Series)

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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Rebuilding After Adverse Weather: Chemicals in Focus

First published on October 9, 2024 this blog post was updated Thursday October 10 During the course of Hurricane Milton’s approach towards the US...

The Porsche 911 in silver with another darker unidentifiable car behind it in a showroom or museum.

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Polyamide: Engineered Thermoplastic for the Automotive Sector

When carmaker Porsche launched its iconic “ducktail” rear spoiler to boost the 911 Carrera RS 2.7’s aerodynamics, the entire vehicle weighed under...

A line graph comparing the price of epoxy resin worldwide between 2015 and 2023 wherein the sudden price hike of

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Epoxy Resin Anti-dumping in an Era of Keen Economic Protectionism

European and US-based epoxy resin producers have triggered anti-dumping investigations against Asian producers in a bid to stop cheap imports....

The rare Sagebrush lizard sitting on a rock in a barren landscape.

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Chevron Deference: What Can The US Expect Now?

Trade bodies, including the Petrochemical Alliance of Oklahoma, are celebrating the Supreme Court's June decision to scrap the decades-old Chevron...

Representation of AI tools in the chemicals industry.

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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...

Graph indicating EU PET imports from July 2017 - July 2023.

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PET Anti-dumping Update: Proposed Provisional Duties

On 31 October 2023, the European Commission communicated the latest details of its anti-dumping investigation into Chinese polyethylene terephthalate...

Graph featuring 50+ years of habitat construction, US housing statistics by unit size.

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Chemicals Markets in Housing, Construction and Infrastructure Worldwide

At the risk of perpetuating a troubling 2023 trope, the construction sector is contradictory on a global scale right now. While growing populations...

A street scene from the city of Vienna during the 2023 European Petrochemicals Association Annual Meeting.

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Renewables, Low Carbon-Intensity Chemicals and ESG at EPCA '23

Discussions on low carbon or sustainable feedstocks at European Petrochemical Association gatherings – even ten years ago – were rare. Back then,...

The Tecnon OrbiChem team enjoys some downtime at the 57th EPCA Annual Meeting in Vienna in 2023.

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Key Takeaways From a Premier Petrochemicals Event: EPCA Vienna 2023

Tecnon OrbiChem experts connected (and reconnected) with cohorts of petrochemicals-focused contacts cultivated over 50 years at the end of last...