Market Flash

With the improvement of residents' living standards and the promotion of the market acceptance of collagen products, the application of collagen has expanded continuously in recent years.

• collagen
• food&beverage
• health food

China's leading energy and chemical company, has put China's largest petrochemical port into operation with the successful docking and unloading of the New Renown, Crude Oil Tanker (VLCC) from the Middle East.

• petrochemical
• port
• China
• Sinopec

A green tea extract has shown early hints of promise against a serious, progressive form of lung disease, researchers say.

• Green
• Tea
• Extract

Coffee makes sweet foods taste even sweeter, a new study shows.

• Foods
• Health
• sweet

Axalta has broken ground on the newest phase of its Jiading plant in Shanghai, which represents an important new investment in waterborne coatings by the company in China.

• Axalta
• Waterborne
• Coating
• China

Chemists have studied silica-based hybrid coatings for the protection of aluminum against chloride-rich environment.

• silica-based
• hybrid
• coatings

Some of the world’s leading coatings specialists gathered virtually at the Royal Society of Chemistry to discuss how special surface technologies could be used to tackle the global COVID-19 pandemic.

• Coating
• COVID-19
• tackle

With more than 60% of the turmeric processing and value-added product manufacturing plants resuming operations, the Indian turmeric trade was close to normal last Friday.

• turmeric
• Trade
• Recover

While COVID-19 has infected millions of people worldwide and killed hundreds of thousands, there is currently no vaccine. In response, researchers have been evaluating the effectiveness of various antiviral drugs as possible COVID-19 treatments.

• COVID-19
• treatment

Repurposing existing drugs for COVID-19 offers a more rapid alternative to a vaccine

• COVID-19
• Vaccine

Recently, Huaxi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huaxi Bio") issued an "open letter to consumers", publicly condemning Shandong Furui Da Bioengineering Co., Ltd.

• hyaluronic acid
• intellectual property

Given the realities of working from home, physical distancing, and mask wearing, it has become much less important to wear makeup and fragrance.

• beauty
• products
• cosmetics
• COVID-19

According to foreign media Plastic Recycling Updates, the New Crown epidemic has intensified competition in the existing plastics recycling market

• plastic
• Recycling
• Market

On April 7, Continental Group, the parent company of the horse brand tires, announced its first quarter financial report for 2020.

• tire
• Companies
• Q1

With the completion and commissioning of ethylene glycol production facilities of many enterprises, China's ethylene glycol production capacity has steadily increased in recent years.

• ethylene
• Demand
• 2020

Tokai Carbon raises carbon black prices in the Japanese market

• Carbon Black
• Prices
• Tokai

By the end of the month, the overall operating rate of domestic DMF enterprises was about 69%.

• DMF
• Pharmaceutical

This month domestic BDO market prices continued to decline, factories continued to limit the price policy, the overall start-up remained low, in April the average operating rate of domestic BDO plants at about 35.5%.

• BDO
• calcium carbide
• Methanol

Can Bulgarian roses be harvested this summer? What is the harvest of mint, lavender, vetiver and orange blossom grown in other parts of the world?

• flavor&fragrance
• epidemic

According to a new Korean study published in the journal Nutrition, nutritional supplement company Valensa International's krill oil, astaxanthin and hyaluronic acid combination FlexPro MD helps overcome joint degradation.

• Krill OIL
• astaxanthin
• hyaluronic acid