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Increased mill use of cotton is also forecast in India, Pakistan and Vietnam, due in part to their continued yarn shipments to China.

• Cotton
• Consumption
• Expand

Indicative prices for January-shipment liquid epoxy resins (LER) in Asia were higher at around $3,000/tonne, with most producers sold out of December-shipment cargoes, industry sources said on Tuesday.

• LER

This article summarized the most important chemical news in 2017 from around the world.

• 2017
• News
• Chemical

US polypropylene (PP) contracts for December settled at a rollover as earlier margin expansions were reversed in the face of steadily climbing monomer costs.

• PP
• Plastics

The chemistry community lost several trailblazing chemists in 2017.

• 2017
• chemists

North American output was flat compared with 2016, while Europe and Asia remained strong.

• 2017
• Chemical
• Output

When hurricane Harvey pummelled the US Gulf Coast in August 2017, it knocked offline a large number of chemical facilities. US industrial production suffered substantially from the reduced operations of these plants.

• 2017
• hurricane
• 2017 Highlights

Economic and political pressure is encouraging the chemical industry to become more specialised as certain sectors consolidate in 2017.

• 2017
• Merger
• Chemical Industry

Brushing aside the proposal of the textile factory owners, petroleum corporation’s director operations Mir Ali Reza said that the corpor...

• Bangladesh
• Textile
• Import
• Furnace Oil

“That indicates that both LNG suppliers and LNG buyers are going to have to get to work to underpin new LNG supply projects, perhaps soo...

• China
• LNG
• Volatility

an agreement between China’s state-owned oil company Sinopec, the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, the state of Alaska, a Chinese bank, and a Chinese investment firm to advance the $43 billion Alaska LNG natural gas pipeline megaproject.

• Shale Gas
• China
• U.S.

“Unless they can show without doubt that phosphate additives are not harmful, their use in all foods must be immediately reviewed by the...

• Doner
• Additives

" The study does not presume any potential health effects stemming from this microbiome alteration, but it raises some compelling questi...

• Food
• Non Toxic

2 per cent growth in 2018, a press release from the company said citing the forecast.

• Global
• Economy

With more than 1,700 power-generating firms included in the system and their emissions exceeding 3 billion tonnes in total, the national...

• China
• Cotton
• Trading

5 per cent larger than in the previous crop, due to the good perspectives for the Brazilian market.

• Brazilian
• Cotton
• Price

The comments come after the government reopened some coal-fired power plants and cut output from gas-fired generators, freeing up 10 mil...

• NDRC
• Gas
• Energy

In November, output growth of the high-tech industry and equipment manufacturing industry stayed above 10 percent and 14 percent respect...

• China
• Industry
• Output

According to VISTA, domestic firms have to import 86% of fabrics for garment production as locally-produced fabrics have not met standar...

• Vietnam
• Textile
• Trade

At the end of October, Xie Weizhi, CNOOC’s chief financial officer, lamented the fact that the company’s offshore gas fields in the sout...

• LNG
• CNOOC