Market Flash

According to the Carbon Black Branch of China Rubber Industry Association, the total economic indicators of the domestic carbon black industry will decline in 2019.

• Carbon Black
• export
• 2019

On May 8, the world's largest container ship "HMM Algeciras" of Hyundai Merchant Marine left Yantian International Container Terminal with "fully loaded", setting a new world record in freight volume.

• Container
• China

The health risks of sugary drinks, from juice to soda, are well known. They can lead to overweight and diabetes, stroke and other problems in the brain, including poorer memory and smaller brain volume.

• Food
• Health

In a study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, researchers used experimental evolution to identify the core microbiome of commercial tomatoes by searching for microbial communities that could defend against random microbes landing on the

• Health
• Food

Global management consulting and market research company Lucintel released the latest personal care active ingredients market report, predicting that the market will reach $ 5.4 billion by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of 4.7% during the 2020-2

• raw material
• personal care
• Increase

A proposed ASTM International standard will allow manufacturers to make better use of portable goniometers to measure angles of drops of liquid when applied to a surface for testing the wettability of coatings, substrates, and pigments.

• Painting&Coating
• ASTM
• standards

In the past one or two months, under the environment of crude oil prices plummeting and the overall weakening of chemical products, PP has performed very well, becoming the leading variety in the chemical sector.

• PP
• market
• trend

Yesterday (May 11), NACE International, The Corrosion Society announced via press release that its CORROSION 2020 Conference and Expo was officially canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

• Corrosion
• cancel
• COVID-19

A two-week course of antiviral therapy with interferon beta-1b plus lopinavir-ritonavir and ribavirin, started within 7 days of showing COVID-19 symptoms, is safe and more effective at reducing the duration of viral shedding than lopinavir-ritonavir alone

• COVID-19
• Pharma
• research

The goal of a vaccine is to trigger a response that safely protects against an infection and/or the burden of disease.

• COVID-19
• vaccine
• Pharma
• research

Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Health and Health Commission, compiled the "Priority Control Chemicals List (Second Batch) (Draft for Comments)"

• chemicals
• list
• categories

On May 11th, the reporter learned from Lanzhou Customs that a few days ago, after passing the customs inspection and quarantine supervision of the customs at Pingliang, the 1% -ton of Arundo donax root extract produced

• Arundo donax root
• Astragalus
• export

In rencent years there has been a growing need for plant extracts in various industries, here is a breif general overview of global plant extracts market.

• plant
• extracts
• global
• market
• Analysis

In April 2020, domestic PE output was approximately 1.6074 million tons, a decrease of 8.23% month-on-month and an increase of 8.92% year-on-year. Among them

• polyethylene
• supply
• May

Against the backdrop of the current severe epidemic situation, the amount of disinfectant products at home and abroad has increased greatly, and the products are in short supply.

• Disinfectant
• interpretation
• market forcast
• epidemic

Due to the continued enthusiasm for the demand for isopropyl alcohol, the price of Asian isopropyl alcohol (IPA) reached a new high in nine years on April 17.

• Asian
• isopropanol
• Price
• attention

For hundreds of years, chocolate has been a wonderful food that people use to replenish energy and improve mood.

• Scotland
• chocolate
• plant sugar

Data show that in the past five years, global cosmetics patents accounted for 33.3% of the total number in the past 20 years.

• cosmetics
• Patent

A poisonous styrene gas leak occurred at 3 am (May 7) in the Vishakhapatnam area of Andhra Pradesh, southern India.

• LG
• Leak
• Styrene

China's demand will not have a big impact on the polypropylene market.

• Polypropylene
• crude oil