Market Flash

Possibly cracking open the door in its ban on plastic scrap imports, the Chinese government may allow some grades of clean material in, if they can be used directly in manufacturing, according to a Chinese industry group.

• Plastic

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced Nov. 16 that it was moving to “permanently revoke” the permit for Chemours Co. to discharge its wastewater as the company had “repeatedly failed to follow the law.”

• Waterwaste

Nordic plastics film specialist Rani Plast Group has formed a new independent company, Tatrafan, which will include the group’s jointly owned flexible packaging operations in Eastern Europe.

• Plastics

Arlanxeo said that its bio-based EPDM rubber is used in the Adidas soccer ball of the World Cup 2018.

• Arlanxeo

Most of the 150 million tons of plastics produced around the world every year end up in landfills, the oceans and elsewhere.

• Plastics

Singapore’s exports of naphtha slumped by 56% year on year to 54,942 tonnes in October.

• Singapore
• Exports

Spanish chemical companies’ sales are set to increase in 2017 by 5.7%, year on year, to €62.4bn, as domestic consumption and the global recovery fuelled demand, the country’s chemical trade group FEIQUE said on Monday.

• Spain
• Chemicals

Tianjin PC has restarted the 340kta PTA unit already and the unit was shut on Nov 7 for turnaround.

• PTA

Sellers withholding better grades of lint remained in the driving seat as stocks of better grades of lint were shrinking.

• Cotton
• Pakistan

According to the representative of NDRC, the supply situation is critical in this winter, however, on account of the well-run overall di...

• Natural Gas
• Winter Heating

However, later most industrial natural gas consumers will be restricted or even be halted in production for the sake of the peak-shaving...

• Gas
• Requisition
• LNG

ECHEMI invited Mr Meraj to give us the market speech, Mr Meraj is the CEO from ocean chemical which is top 10 commissioner in Painting and coating in Pakistan.

• Pakistan
• Coatings

At the site of the parallel session, buyers and sellers learned from each other to build trust and shared industry information in the form of a question-and-answer session to achieve the goal of jointly developing the paint market.

• Pakistan
• Venus

Global Coating Forum & Procurement Conference was held in the afternoon of November 14, 2017, which invited global paint and coatings buyers , domestic excellent suppliers to attend the Coating Forum and Procurement Conference.

• Echemi
• Procurement
• Coatings

Ravago Chemicals offers a comprehensive product portfolio of basic raw materials and specialties for a wide range of applications, such ...

• Coatings
• Ravago

In the meetings, the distance between both parties became closer and purchasing efficiency was increased. The conference has provided the most convenient and efficient communication platform.

• Echemi
• Procurement

ECOAT is the leading manufacturer in the coatings industry in France. It came all the way from France to attend the conference and found it very useful.

• Coating Forum
• echemi
• Buyers

In the procurement conference, Antynea TM has got deeper understanding for ECHEMI and its Chinese qualified suppliers through communication.

• Coating Forum
• echemi
• Buyers

In the Global Coating Forum&Procurement Conference, Jinzhou Titanium Industry and Delta Egypt have reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

• Coating Forum
• Buyers

In the ECHEMI Global Coating Forum&Procurement Conference,a South African buyer Virenix shows great interest to the Chinese coatings market.

• Coating Forum
• Coatings
• Buyers