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Germany's Oxea announcement regarding new capacity of plasticizer dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP) was not a big surprise for market player, sources said on Thursday.

• DOTP

” Doctors disagree on whether food additives like dyes, preservatives, stabilizers, emulsifiers and other substances can provoke a true ...

• Food
• Drug

Over the last two years the cosmetics industry has experienced an estimated compound annual growth rate of 4.6%. The value of the sector, which includes the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes and other personal care preparations, is estimated to have grow

• South Africa
• Cosmetics

Customs officers are the first line of defense for catching illegal shipments, and while the products may be fake, they can have very real health consequences for consumers.

• Fake
• Cosmetics
• Danger

" The facility served several miscellaneous purposes for Pioneer, but Kacmarcik said it will now contribute specifically to ACI's core c...

• Coatings
• Kapco
• Facility

In view of this, NDRC issues a formal circular on December 1, 2017 and urges local governments to stabilize the LNG supply and prevent p...

• LNG
• NDRC
• Supply

China has begun buying brand new plastic to replace all the recycled scrap -- and that’s great news for U.

• Waste
• Import
• Plastic

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's report— A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion's future presents an ambitious vision for a new sys...

• Clothing
• Recycled

In November, the commerce department ruled in favour of the US biodiesel industry in a preliminary antidumping determination, finding th...

• Biodiesel

As Liang Guoyong, economic affairs officer at the Investment and Enterprise Division of United Nations Conference on Trade and Developme...

• U.S.
• China
• WTO

PE and PP players are set to close 2017 in calmer waters after the nervous sentiment caused by cracker shutdowns at the beginning of the year, but this could be short-lived for PE as the US and India bring on stream massive capacities.

• PE
• PP

An Arkansas company that already collects millions of pounds of used agricultural plastics in California is planning a multimillion-dollar plastics recycling and processing facility in that state.

• Plastics

The Indian polyvinyl chloride (PVC) market is now poised for a recovery - with prices expected to bottom out soon – on the back of seasonal growth in demand.

• PVC
• India

Chemical producer prices in the eurozone and the EU rose 4.1% and 4.5% respectively year on year in October, the European statistical agency Eurostat said on Monday.

• Eurozone
• Chemicals

With the effects from hurricanes well behind the chemical industry, global chemical production rose by 0.4% in October from September, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) said on Monday in its latest Global Chemical Production Regional Index.

• Chemistry
• Production

Falling butadiene (BD) prices and higher priced benzene were the main influences on the ICIS regional and global petrochemical indexes in November, which fell 0.9% and bucked the upward trend in crude oil prices, ICIS data showed on Tuesday.

North American polypropylene resin prices ticked up another penny per pound in November, while regional prices for nylon 6 and 6/6 resins and some recycled grades of PET bottle resin have increased in recent months as well.

• PP
• PET

Plastics processors at Cosmoprof Asia and its sister show Cosmopack — the continent's largest gathering for the cosmetics supply chain — were looking for any new thing that could give them an advantage.

• Cosmetics

Hong Leong Asia Ltd. has sold its Malaysian plastics business to Viscount Plastics for A$3.61 million (US$2.75 million).

• Plastics
• Hong Leong
• Rex

"When it actually is used in other areas, firefighting foams, they seep into the ground and ground water, wells, town water systems and ...

• URI
• Chemical
• Water