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Chinese consumers have deep-rooted concerns about food safety and fraud in the domestic supply chain, according to research led by Newcastle University.

• EU
• Food

Even though most new US cracker capacity has new associated derivative capacity as well, Enterprise executives have said they often will...

• Ethylene
• Export

Qingdao, a major oil refining hub in the northern province of Shandong, will also ban vessels during June 4 to 11 when sea visibility dr...

• China
• Port
• Chemicals

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• Daily
• News

Some downstream producers arranged overhauls, but they were postponed due to the SCO summit. The PO and oxo-alcohols producers are running their units at high operating rates.

• SCO Summit
• Qingdao
• Propylene

China’s top-gear city gas corporate, Beijing Gas Group, recently signed an investment agreement with Tianjin Government to build LNG receiving terminal and emergency storage project at Nangang Port, Tianjin City.

• LNG
• Beijing
• gas

On the one hand, the MTBE prices in Shandong skyrocketed, thus downstream users showed resistance to the high-priced MTBE resources. On the other hand, the international crude oil prices started to decline from May 25, weighing on the market sentiment.

• MTBE
• Shandong

On May 17, 2018, Eversun Holding Group and American Ethane Company signed a cooperation agreement about the 1,500kt/a ethane-to-ethylene project at Putian Shimen’ao Chemical Industrial Park.

• Eversun
• Cooperation
• Ethane

This project will use the coke oven gas produced by the Group as the major feedstock and add certain proportion of coal gas.

• Methanol
• Coking Coal

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The University of Leeds’ Chris Rayner tells Chemistry World the underlying chemical technology, provided by spin-out company C-Capture, ...

• Carbon Doxide
• New chemistry

A third of Italy’s chemical firms call the region home, directly employing 72,000 staff (4% of all chemical industry workers in Europe).

• Chemical
• Industry
• Europe

In a report released Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that synthetic products falsely labeled as cannabidiol, or CBD, sickened as many as 52 people from October through January.

In a report released Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that synthetic products falsely labeled as cannabidiol, or CBD, sickened as many as 52 people from October through January.

• US
• Health
• Marijuana

779 tons of reserved cotton are planned to be sold, including 21,798.089 tons of Xinjiang cotton and 8,209.69 tons of upcountry cotton.

• Cotton
• Auction

In the Delta and the West regions, 2018 cotton acreage is forecast to remain identical to the last season, according to the report.

• U.S.
• Cotton
• Production

The total import volume of synthetic rubber (including latex) was 334.2kt, up 12.8% Y-O-Y. The import value was 3.469 billion RMB, down 18.8% Y-O-Y.

• Rubber
• Tire
• China

Herein, Guanghui Energy broke the ground of its second 160,000 cbm LNG storage tank in its Qidong Terminal at Lvsi Harbor, Nantong Port in East China’s Jiangsu, while CNOOC announced to invite tenders for EPC Project of the second construction...

• China
• Terminal

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• News

With the advancement of medical industry, modern medical equipment and a new generation of life saving technology have been greatly improved.