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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

An unnamed resident was quoted as saying that some of the chemical had got into the sewage system.

• Leak
• Sulphuric Acid
• China

Uranium can perform reactions that previously no one thought possible, which could transform the way industry makes bulk chemicals, polymers, and the precursors to new drugs and plastics, according to new findings from The University of Manchester.

• Replace
• Plastic

The report answers some key questions, including estimating the market size and the growth rate, main market trends, growth drivers, cha...

• Waterproof
• Textile

GB/T 2662-2017 has deleted two annexes - Annex A - Test methods for seam slippage and Annex B - Sample sketch for the seam strength of t...

• China
• Clothing
• Filling

It was reported that in 2014-2016, the fixed investment in textile and apparel industry in Xinjiang totaled 89.

• Yarn
• Xinjiang

While every other segment in the textile value chain, including man-made fibre spun yarn, have been provided with the MEIS benefits, cot...

• Texprocil
• Cotton

Ministry of Textile Industry submitted the following recommendations in order of preference: (i) Energy affordability: Textile Associati...

• Textile
• PM

Since 1st December 2017, China's polyester capacity is adjusted to 48 million mt/year after Siyang Haixin started a 250kta unit and Yiji...

• Polyester
• Capacity