Market Flash

In 2019, China's import and export trade of APIs returned to a fast-growing lane. The annual import and export volume reached US $ 44.434 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14.91%. Among them, the export value was 33.683 billion US dollars

• API
• analysis
• trade

Affected by the new crown epidemic, the demand for masks has soared. According to the big data of Ali International Station, the demand for medical masks by global buyers has increased by 13769% from the beginning of March.

• Polypropylene
• meltblown cloth
• chemicals

VTT and its business partners have launched a two-year project to develop a concept for a process to capture and utilise carbon dioxide.

• Carbon
• Dioxide

A nonstick wrap that repels bacteria has potentially valuable food packaging applications, according to the researchers at McMaster University in Canada who developed it.

• EMERGING
• SCIENCE

Researchers from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment of Hebrew University recently developed a line of next-gen chickpea isolates, using patent-pending technology to extract up to 90% pure protein from the chickpea seed.

• chickpea
• alternatives

The journal Horticulturae reports in a current issue on Purdue University research findings about E. coli in aquaponic and hydroponic systems. Three years of other research about deadly E. coli O157:H7 have left many wondering if there might be safer ways

• Aquaponic
• Hydroponic
• coli
• contamination

The overall situation can be summarized as follows: before the middle of March, the soft bubble production in Europe was basically normal, but then the situation deteriorated rapidly due to the lack of market demand

• polyurethane

Since this year, due to factors such as the collapse of upstream costs and the downturn of the downstream market, the domestic o-xylene market prices have continued to decline.

• O-xylene

GlobalChem Conference and Exhibition was scheduled for 6-8 April 2020, at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, DC

• GlobalChem
• Exhibition

This sudden market is mainly driven by the fierce increase in fiber materials. The demand for masks and protection has exploded, and the price of medical materials and raw materials represented by PP has risen sharply.

• PP
• meltblown fabric

The pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain. The reopening of production lines in China will not only help the Chinese economy, but also recover the global supply chain and lend a great support to the global fight against the pandemic.

• Supply chain
• China
• Trade

Oyin, a leading hand-made personal care brand, has recently launched a juice herbal leave-in hair conditioner.

• hair
• herbal
• frankincense
• myrrh

Most commodity prices are expected to drop in 2020 amid the global economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank said Thursday.

• Prices
• 2020
• Economy

With the spread of overseas epidemics, the number of confirmed cases worldwide has grown rapidly. As an effective medical protective equipment mask, it has become a tight resource, and it has become "a hard to find one."

• BYD
• mask

During the Spring Festival, the domestic sulfuric acid market was basically in a stable state. The major acid plants no longer made price adjustments, some downstream load reductions or production reductions

• sulfuric acid
• trend

In late April, domestic methanol companies were overhauled, demand recovered slowly, and stocks in port areas remained above 1 million tons, which combined with the impact of low crude oil prices and general decline in energy products. The methanol market

• Methanol
• Supply
• price

In the early period, due to the bottom-out rebound of crude oil prices and the voluntary reduction of load by PVC companies, PVC futures prices rebounded slightly. However, as international crude oil prices returned to weakness

• PVC
• oil price

Recently, AbbVie announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the combination of Imbruvica with rituximab for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) / small Patients with lymphocytic leukemia (SLL).

• FDA
• Imbruvica
• AbbVie

A present research reports on the synthesis and characterisation of nanosized copper oxide nanoparticles (CuONPs) and their application on cotton fabric to increase the bactericidal and hydrophobic properties.

• antibacterial
• textiles

The global drop in demand for energy and fuels caused by the novel coronavirus will put a damper on the renewables sector in 2020.

• renewable
• energy
• COVID-19