6 min read
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...
3 min read
Jane Denny: Jan 18, 2024, 1:00:28 PM
ResourceWise (formerly Tecnon OrbiChem) has attended the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers’ springtime event—the International...
4 min read
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.
6 min read
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....
7 min read
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?...
7 min read
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....
6 min read
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,...
4 min read
Jane Denny: Nov 10, 2023, 12:07:39 PM
It is one thing to know the price a chemical is currently valued in the market, a service that ResourceWise company Tecnon OrbiChem has provided for...
2 min read
Tecnon OrbiChem: Nov 3, 2023, 2:55:59 PM
On 31 October 2023, the European Commission communicated the latest details of its anti-dumping investigation into Chinese polyethylene terephthalate...
7 min read
Tecnon OrbiChem: Oct 25, 2023, 4:37:12 PM
At the risk of perpetuating a troubling 2023 trope, the construction sector is contradictory on a global scale right now. While growing populations...
6 min read
Jane Denny: Oct 19, 2023, 2:03:57 PM
The automotive sector is operating in a contradictory landscape at present. This year alone, it has been subject to pent-up demand driven by Covid,...
4 min read
Jane Denny: Oct 16, 2023, 12:25:53 PM
Discussions on low carbon or sustainable feedstocks at European Petrochemical Association gatherings – even ten years ago – were rare. Back then,...
