Market Flash

Growing urbanization and changing lifestyles are driving demand for convenience and packaged foods. In the processed and packaged foods, ensuring food safety and quality starting from transportation to farm to fork and storage facilities is...

• Europe
• Food Additives

Asia pacific is a populous region and the increasing calorie intake per capita is leading to substantial increase in the global food production. In the processed and packaged foods,

• Asia Pacific
• Food Additives

In the distant past, we ate food that was raw or freshly cooked from ingredients that had been caught, grown or foraged. Slowly, people began to realise that by dividing labour,

• Food Additives
• Ingredients

Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavor or enhance its taste, appearance, or other qualities. Some additives have been used for centuries; for example, preserving food by pickling (with vinegar),

• Food Additives

In many applications such as heavy duty coatings, customers want coatings that can be cured at low temperatures. Two new types of Mannich base hardeners have been developed, both able to deliver high-solids formulations with fast low temperature cure.

• Coatings
• Low Temperature

Axalta Coating Systems announced its new collection of Tufcote™ Protective Rail Car coatings that are formulated to meet the needs of the industrial rail car and transportation industry.

• Axalta
• Coatings

Mossi Ghisolfi Group(M&G) posted a statement on its website Tuesday saying that the Group has filed for an application of "concordato preventivo", a form of bankruptcy protection.

• PET
• Italy

Despite slight oscillations, cotton quotes dropped in the Brazilian market in the first fortnight of October, as sellers were either more active in the spot market or retracted,

• Cotton
• Brazil
• October

Global cotton stocks outside of China are expected to rise by nearly 12 million bales to a record 53 million bales in 2017-18 season, predicts the US department of agriculture (USDA)

• Cotton
• Inventory
• China

With global butadiene (BD) and rubber prices tumbling, sources said on Thursday they expect US November BD contracts to settle lower as well.

• Butadiene

Corrosion-resistant equipment company Augusta Fiberglass Coatings Inc. is expanding its Blackville, S.C., facility.

• Augusta
• Fiberglass

More consumers are seeking out packaging made from recycled plastics as awareness of marine pollution rises, according to Mintel.

• Plastics

Machinery, material and tooling suppliers that specialize in liquid silicone rubber are key players at the Fakuma trade show.

• Plastic
• Machinery

Saudi Arabia’s Sadara Chemical has raised its capital by 9% to Saudi riyal (SR) 31.7bn ($8.5bn), with no change in the company’s ownership structure, its 100% indirectly owned company said late on Monday.

• Saudi Arabia

China's central bank governor said the economy could grow 7 percent in the second half of this year, accelerating from the first six months and defying widespread expectations for a slowdown.

• China
• Economy

On September 25, PetroChina South China Marketing Company lowered the price of oil-extended SBS, ending the 3-month’s price uptrend. With the weak prices of synthetic rubber and butadiene, will the road modification-used SBS undergo a price decline?

• Road Modification
• SBS

The NR prices slumped once again in September. The NR futures price at the SHFE kept dropping after the short-term price increase in early September. The highest price and the lowest price at the SHFE were RMB 17,840/mt on September 6 and RMB 14,330/mt ..

• NR
• September

China’s EPDM market fluctuated within a narrow range in 2017. Affected by the environmental protection inspection, market supply was insufficient and the demand was weak

• EPDM
• Ethylene
• Propylene

In the second quarter global yarn production rose by 11 per cent. The drivers of the growth are: Asia and Brazil. Yarn production decreased by ten percent in the US and 18 per cent in Africa.

• Yarn
• Fabric

Beverage giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have embarked on a big gamble in India by changing the recipes of their best-selling drinks to include stevia, a plant-based natural sweetener.

• Coke
• Pepsi