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As the fertilizer industry begins moving towards the start of spring, the first major domestic conference of the year concluded in mid-February.

• Fertilizer

The cost of manufacturing electric vehicles (EV) will reach parity with that of combustion engine vehicles by 2021

• Vehicles

The shortage of spot polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in Europe will continue through to the end of the first quarter or into the second quarter, buyers and sellers said on Friday.

• PET

The offshore business was set to generate $6 billion to $7 billion a year in free cash flow in the next three years, roughly a quarter o...

• Shale Oil
• Shell

Back in September, media outlets reported on an accidental discovery that could make transporting bitumen by rail much safer by turning ...

• Canada
• Oil

Turkmenistan has completed construction of the gas pipeline in its section under the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) project, following which a ground-breaking ceremony is scheduled to be held at the Turkmen border city of Serhetabat

• Pakistan
• gas

The report predicts the global food additives market to grow with a CAGR of 4.3% over the period of 2017 - 2023

• Food Additives

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• Food Additives

Food Additives Market reports cover detailed competitive outlook including the market share and company profiles of the key participants operating in the Asia Pacific market.

• Food Additives

In terms of value, global automotive refinish coatings market was estimated at $7,850.0 million in 2016, and is expected to register a CAGR of 5.3% from 2016 to 2021.

• Automotive
• Coatings

Pakistan’s oil and food import bill rose nearly 26 per cent year-on-year to $11.6 billion in the first seven months of the current fiscal year owing to an increase in global prices of crude and grains.

• Pakistan
• LNG

February contracts for US polypropylene (PP) settled 6 cents/lb ($132/tonne) lower, tracking a similar decline in monomer costs for the month.

• PP

US February contract prices for styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) were assessed 3.5 cents/lb ($77/tonne) higher on Wednesday.

• SBR

US February oxo-alcohols free-market contract prices were assessed higher on Thursday by 7-9 cents/lb ($154-198/tonne) on some supply constraints and pressure from January feedstock propylene.

• Oxo Alcohols

Polyethylene (PE) spot activity in Europe has slowed down as participants wait for the March ethylene contract to settle, and also because the trend for next month seems unclear, sources said on Thursday.

• PE

Imports of polyethylene (PE) into Belarus dropped by 4.8% year on year in 2017, as per the National Bureau of Statistics of Belarus.

• PE
• Imports

The EU should keep and recycle its “valuable plastic” within a “single circular economy”, according to the European Commission’s vice president for jobs, growth, investment and competitiveness.

• Plastics

A $20 million manufacturing project taking shape in Berkeley County is expected to start producing a compound that's vital to South Carolina's fast-growing tire industry.

• Chemical

Pharmaceutical Drugs Market Global Briefing 2018 provides strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the global pharmaceutical drugs sector.

• Pharmaceutical

Trade body PlasticsEurope has opposed Echa's recent decision, identifying BPA as a substance of very high concern due to its endocrine disrupting effects on the environment.

• Plastics