Market Flash

On June 5, Marc Pritchard and Virginie Helias announced that Olay will pilot a new way of shopping for skincare that could dramatically reduce the amount of plastic used in the beauty category.

• Olay
• Packaging

European polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sellers maintained prices for June shipments to the commonwealth of independent states (CIS) region this week, with a slight increase from some producers, according to ICIS-MRC Price report.

• PVC
• Europe

Asia’s monoethylene glycol (MEG) spot discussions slumped on Thursday, following heavy losses in upstream crude market overnight and amid ongoing concerns over the US-China trade spat.

• MEG

Asia's ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) prices have been falling since October 2018 because of a supply glut and slowing demand, which may not pick up in the near future.

• Asia
• EPDM

Compostable food packaging is becoming all the rage as an alternative to that evil material plastic. More and more restaurants where I eat are putting my leftovers in compostable paperboard boxes. However, according to a new study, compostable food contai

• Compostable

As the US-China trade war intensifies, China chemical markets will suffer further falls in margins and pricing. The ramping up of the trade war is hurting confidence amongst China’s domestic consumers as well as export-oriented manufacturers.

• trade
• chemical

• Acetic Acid
• Price
• Analysis

Medical institutions, medical consumables and in vitro diagnostic reagent production (operation) enterprises:Changzhi Medical College Affiliated and Jin Hospital, Linxian People's Hospital, Sinochem Second Construction Group Hospital, Yaodu District Peopl

• Food

Asia’s naphtha prices extended their downward spiral on the back of weakening oil prices and a persistent supply glut, as cargo deals fetch deeper discounts.

• naphtha
• oil

A new liquid additive from Riverdale Global LLC (Aston, PA) reduces the polymer degradation that takes place during melt processing, substantially increasing physical property retention in regrind compared with unmodified material.

• liquid
• additive
• polymer

Northwest factory inventory is low, and heard that the main enterprises in Inner Mongolia operate under low load.

• Methanol

Yesterday, the domestic o-phthalic anhydride market was weak and the trading atmosphere was light. Downstream plasticizers are still in a downward trend.

• Phthalic
• anhydrite

The Chinese government has forced the closure of factories in industrial parks and other nearby factories for investigation and safety inspection.

• paint
• supply

In the first quarter, the output was 38.558 million tons, an increase of 7.3% over the previous year, the main revenue was 69.3 billion yuan, an increase of 2.7% over the same period last year.

• coating
• industry

The top three growth rates were all in the western provinces. In the first quarter, there were 17 provinces whose GDP growth rate exceeded 6.4% of the national data.

• GDP

Just five days ago, China University of Mining and Technology issued an alarm for the "Intelligent Integrated Monitoring and Early Warning System for Rockburst Pressure" installed in the mine.

• intelligent
• system

In 2020, China will basically establish a territorial spatial planning system, initially forming a "map" for development and protection.

• spatial
• planning

With the deep application of new technologies in the medical and health industry, the intelligent medical models such as big data and precise medical treatment are developing continuously.

• digital
• industry

According to the latest production and sales statistics of authoritative departments, crude steel production in China has been rising in recent years, and steel sales have also increased significantly over the past year.

• steel

Recently, BHP, an Australian miner, said that with stricter global regulation of carbon emissions and stronger calls to resist coal, the company said it might withdraw from its power coal assets in the future.

• BHP