Market Flash

According to news on December 23 from Axunsi, "Chemical Week" cited data from the American Chemistry Council (ACC) as saying that chemical production in the United States in November increased by 0.4% from the three-month average (3MMA).

• U.S. chemical product production
• ACC

Potassium hydroxide (KOH), also known as "caustic potassium", is an important chemical product that has a wide range of applications in the chemical, dye, light industry, food, medicine, and agriculture industries.

• potassium hydroxide
• potassium nitrate

Chemical raw materials have taken a sharp turn, with a reduction of up to 5,000 CNY/ton

• bisphenol A
• chemical raw material trend
• Isopropanol

Under the pandemic in 2020, all walks of life can write many kinds of bitterness, but the good point is that most fertilizer factories are of adequate scale and the market is highly resistant.

• urea

2020 has come to the end of the year, and the new crown pneumonia epidemic has brought heavy damage to the global economy. Although the polyester market has fallen to the bottom

• polyester production

According to the China Reporting Hall's monitoring of the producer price index (PPI) of the chemical pharmaceutical raw material manufacturing industry from January to November 2020

• pharmaceutical manufacturing
• chemical PPI

According to chemical network news on December 16th: The International Energy Information Agency (IEA) stated in its monthly report that the global tanker market may benefit slightly from the recovery of oil demand in Asia in the coming months

• IEA
• Asian oil

With the release of market sentiment, today's oils and fats fluctuated higher as a whole. Soybean Oil 01 contract once again demonstrated its rising strength near the delivery month, supported by preference fundamentals.

• oil fluctuated

The Christmas is already around the corner. In addition to wishing you a happy holiday with your families, ECHEMI Group will also bring you the best wishes from our big family.

• Echemi 2020
• Echemi Group

For a long time, pharmaceutical companies have relied on the patent protection of medicines to obtain market monopoly. With the expiration of pharmaceutical patents, generic drugs have entered the market.

• blockbuster drug
• drug patent

Recently, some sub-industries and enterprises have continuously received feedback that the price of PVC resin has risen abnormally and rapidly, from about 6,000 CNY/ton to nearly 9,000 CNY/ton, and futures prices have risen significantly.

• PVC resin
• PVC sub industry

The global styrene supply surplus may escalate in 2021, because of the increase in production capacity in Asia, and in the case of the continuing epidemic, the uncertainty of demand recovery is obvious.

• styrene oversupply

Professor Zhu Xifeng's team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) recently proposed a new method to prepare high-performance supercapacitor electrode materials from heavy bio-oil obtained by pyrolysis of agricultural and forestry was

• electrode material

University of Minnesota Medical School and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) researchers found that metformin was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 death risks in women in one of the world's largest observational studies of COVID-19 patients.

• covid 19 research
• metformin covid 19

Virologists at the Rega Institute at KU Leuven (Belgium) have developed a vaccine candidate against COVID-19 based on the yellow fever vaccine, which as a result also works against yellow fever.

• KU leuven
• Covid 19 vaccine

At the beginning of the month, Dow's Zhangjiagang monomer plant had leaked due to hydrolysis equipment. The shutdown once brought a certain impact to the silicone market. The shutdown may last two to three weeks.

• Dow's plant
• Dimethyl ether
• Acetic anhydride

According to foreign media sources, an official of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council said on Tuesday that global palm oil production in 2021 is expected to increase by nearly 6% over this year.

• palm oil production
• Malaysian palm oil

And the beauty design is closely following the pulse of fashion. More fashionable, younger, experience is king, and craft-assisted packaging design will become mainstream in 2021.

• herbal cosmetics
• Chinese cosmetics companies

As more and more people view sugar as a major source of unwanted calories and weight gain, consumers are taking an active role in controlling their sugar intake and moving away from high-sugar carbonated soft drinks, while packaged water products are gain

• food beverage trend
• water beverage

PepsiCo has revealed that its latest product innovation will combine Pepsi and hot chocolate in a new chocolate marshmallow flavor that will be available in winter 2021, PepsiCo originally teased on Twitter on Dec. 17.

• pepsi trend
• pepsi flavor