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Paints & coatings have constantly witnessed change to keep up with the industry demands.

• Painting

At the end of August, because of a fire and power outage at Europe’s largest refinery, Pernis , the 90kt/a butanone unit was shut passively. This intensified the tight supply of butanone in the European market.

Most Chinese textile manufacturers are on a green drive tackling water risks and have initiated steps to shift to circular water management models, according to a new report based on an online survey conducted...

• China
• Textile

Textile companies are expecting a revival in their fortunes in July-September on a rebound in customer footfalls and restocking by traders following GST (goods and services tax) compliance.

• Textile
• India

CHINA is quite literally going to war against air pollution as tries to tackle a health crisis that causes some 1.6m deaths every year. The end-result is major shortages up and down many chemicals value chains.

• Pollution
• China
• Chemical
• Shortage

The number of Indians in China has been rising over the years. Unlike the IT sector, which is drawing an increasing number of educated Indians abroad, in the case of China, it is the textile trade.

• Textile
• China

The global conductive textiles market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.6 per cent from 2016 to 2021. Growth of smart fabrics market,

• Textiles

While India was once the largest garment exporter in the world after China. It has now fallen to the sixth position, behind Cambodia,

• Apparel
• India
• Export

The prices fluctuated in the range of RMB 8,000-10,000/mt. However, with the prices hitting the highest, the market started to cool. What are the real rules in the PG market?

Inspections of mooncakes, jams, candies and other foods for the Mid-Autumn Festival will be enhanced nationwide at the request of the Ministry of Health’s Food Safety and Hygiene Department.

• Mooncake
• Food

The environment minister has to be notified at least 120 days before the manufacture of the substance in Canada.

• Canada
• Substance
• Coatings

The problem of soiled solar panels is an issue as old as PV itself. Contemporary understanding of soiling, however, is helping to mitigate the negative effects of dusty or dirty modules – which can not only lead to reduced power...

• Soiling
• Anti
• Coating

Taiwan’s textile exports demonstrated sound recovery signals in July amid improving industry sentiment, according to the Taiwan Textile Federation, which offered a positive outlook for the remaining months this year

• Textile

The ethylene oxide (EO) prices increased for four times this month. The EO settlement price in East China was RMB 9,800/mt, which was up 8% M-O-M.

Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has identified 12 indigenous plants for manufacturing natural textile dyes.

• Textiles
• Dyes

Celanese is continuing to assess the regional and global impact of this force majeure event, and given that this is a rapidly developing situation, Celanese cannot provide any specific details or timing of the full impact to all customers.

• Celanese

BYU have discovered certain compounds found in cocoa that can actually help your body release more insulin and respond to increased blood glucose better. Insulin is the hormone that manages glucose, the blood sugar that reaches unhealthy levels in diabet

• Cocoa
• Compounds

At $2.45, the current US gas price average is the highest recorded price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline so far, this year, due to the impact of Hurricane Harvey, according to a report by The American Automobile Association (AAA).

• Gas

China’s polyethylene (PE) import prices have largely been on an uptrend over the past two months and look set to continue rising on the back of tight supply, particularly for high density PE (HDPE) film and blow-moulding (BM) grades.

• PE
• Import
• China

Since 1st September, 2017, China's polyester capacity is adjusted to 46.9 million mt/year after Hengbang started its 250kt/year PFY unit in August

• Polyester
• Capacity