Market Flash

China's e-commerce logistics business increased steadily in June, according to a survey conducted by the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing and the e-commerce giant JD.com.

• E-Commerce
• China
• logistics

Light to moderate drinking may preserve brain function in older age, according to a new study.

• food health

Chinese ports are struggling to unload record volumes of crude with storage tanks full after the country rushed to buy extra barrels during April’s oil price crash, according to traders and shipping data seen by Reuters.

• China
• Port
• crude oil

A new study focuses on a coating with self-repairing polyurea-formaldehyde microcapsules for anticorrosion protection of aluminum alloy AA2024.

• Coating
• research

According to the B2B market research and consulting institute Chem Research, production in the paint and coatings industry suffered a severe slump in April.

• Coating
• EU
• market trends

Johnson & Johnson has spent years building up its vaccine capabilities, and amid the coronavirus pandemic, its work in the field has taken on new urgency.

• J&J
• Vaccine
• COVID-19

According to data from the British Chemical Business Association (CBA), the blockade caused by the novel coronavirus Outbreak and the absence of Brexit have worsened the indicators of the British chemical industry.

• UK
• chemical
• market
• COVID-19

The International Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex Alimentarius) on July 2 sorted out the global spice industry, listing the seven challenges it faces and the four major trends emerging.

• spice industry
• epidemic
• recover
• trend

A recent result published by researchers at Texas Tech University in the "Nutrition Research" believes that tocotrienol (a configuration of vitamin E) may help to change the composition of intestinal flora.

• vitamin E
• Nopal
• metabolism

The European Commission recently announced that it officially approved Ridesivir as the first EU drug to treat new coronavirus infections.

• EU
• Remdesivir

In 2019, the global curcumin market reached US$58.4 million. It is expected that this market will grow at a CAGR of 12.7% from 2020 to 2027, when the market size will reach US$151.9 million.

• curcumin
• market

For decades, India, known as the "World Pharmacy", has continuously exported cheap medicines to various countries, becoming one of the world's major generic drug countries and one of the major drug exporters.

• India
• China
• trade
• API

Amino acid fertilizer is a kind of fertilizer containing a variety of nutrients. Amino acid fertilizer has complete nutrients and high activity.

• Amino Acid
• advantages
• fertilizer

Recently, provinces and cities continue to promote the replacement of low-VOCs coatings, study the use of unorganized exhaust gas collection and treatment devices, transform the organic exhaust gas purification system of the sectional coating plants

• coating
• upgrade
• industry

Earlier this year, Activia, a Danone brand, used "charcoal" as a creative inspiration to launch a "carbon black yogurt" in Ukraine. It changed people's traditional impression of "white and flawless" yogurt, which is said to b

• Food Additives
• colorant

The 2020 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia contains 5,911 species, an increase of 5.5% compared with the 2015 edition of 5,608.

• Pharmaceutical
• Chinese

Recently, India has resisted the upgrade of Chinese manufacturing, raising tariffs on 300 types of products, some chemicals soared by 300%, and prices of many chemical products have been raised.

• India
• tax
• chemicals

As India's largest source of goods imports, in 2019, India imported from China nearly 20% of chemical products and 4.6% of plastics and rubber, with a total value of 13.601 billion US dollars and 3.11 billion US dollars, the commodity market exceeded $16.

• India
• China
• chemical industry

The 127th China Import and Export Fair, widely known as Canton Fair, has started completely online since last week in Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province.

• china
• online Canton Fair

North China's Tianjin port ranked first in liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports among China's LNG import ports in the first five months of this year, accounting for about 19.5% of the country's total LNG imports, according to the Tianjin Customs.

• LNG
• Import
• China
• Tianjin