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Chikungunya virus is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus), closely related to other viruses in Africa, South America and Australia that ...

• PaxVax
• Vaccine

Spandex for plain fabric is pegged at 40,000-43,000yuan/mt in some plants.

• Operating Rate
• Spandex

On Apr 28, 30,009.14 tons of Xinjiang cotton and 22,957.20 tons of upcountry cotton.

• Cotton
• Auction

The PE complex is of designed capacity of 450kt/year and would be closed for 45 days for anual maintenance, and may be restarted in late...

• ZRCC
• HDPE/LLDPE
• TA

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• Echemi
• Daily

Moreover, it is expected that this new trade mode will be far widely used in the upcoming winter heating season against the possible sup...

• Shandong Marine
• LNG

US Henry Hub gas prices are expected to average below $3/MMBtu, through the remainder of 2018, which could limit the strength of indexed...

• Natural Gas
• Price
• Mexico

45% on the month and slipped 5.China's year-to-date coking coal imports totaled 11.98 million mt, down 29.88% year on year.

• Coking Coal
• Imports
• China

LDPE contract prices were assessed at Eur1,420/mt, continuing a downward trend seen since the beginning of March, when prices were asses...

LDPE contract prices were assessed at Eur1,420/mt, continuing a downward trend seen since the beginning of March, when prices were asses...

• European
• PE

ICE cotton futures market edged up.11 cents per lb and Jul contract closed at 84.06 cents per lb, up 0.23 cents per lb.20cent/lb

• Cotton
• Price
• ICE

As China’s textile industry continues its transformation, the demand for advanced machinery and technology is on the rise,” commented Wa...

• ITMA Asia
• Textile

On Apr 27, 30,002.73 tons of Xinjiang cotton and 22,734.55 tons of upcountry cotton.

• Cotton
• Auction

In the five years to 2016-17, annual growth in Vietnamese cotton imports averaged 28 per cent, making the country the second-ranked buye...

• Cotton
• Import
• Vietnam

A tank containing crude oil or asphalt exploded at a large refinery in Wisconsin on Thursday, injuring 11 people and causing a blast that one worker described as sounding like a sonic boom.

• Explosion
• Oil

Biotechnology company Deinove and Greentech, the producer and distributor of active ingredients, have revealed the first natural active ingredient to result from their partnership, announced in March 2017.

• Ingredients
• Natural

I've seen some promising headlines lately for technologies that hint at miracle solutions for the plastics industries' solid waste woes. But I can't help but pick them apart.

• Plastics
• Recycle

Average North American selling prices for polypropylene and PVC resins each have seen slight drops since April 1. Meanwhile, regional prices for engineering resins polycarbonate, ABS and nylon took the opposite path in the first quarter of 2018,...

• PVC
• Price
• US

Toyochem Co., Ltd., Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. and Jiangmen Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., all member companies of the Toyo Ink Group of Japan, will be jointly exhibiting at Cannex & Fillex Asia Pacific 2018, which runs May 15 to 18, in Guangzhou, China.

• Toyo
• Exhibitions

EnviroShield, which has recently joined the Rust-Oleum family of products, launched three new coatings to its disaster restoration program: Oil Base 7000 Stain & Odor Sealer; Shellac 9000 Stain & Odor Blocker; Masonry 3000 Waterproof Latex Coatin

• EnviroShield
• Program