Market Flash

The Chinese butyl cellosolve (BCS) market rebounded strongly recently. During one week, the BCS market jumped from RMB 8,550/mt to RMB 9,500/mt.

Germany’s Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has reduced the limits for "technically avoidable" heavy metals in cosmetic products and published new orientation values for manufacturers.

• Cosmetics
• Germany

Cosmetics shops have become a recent favorite of Middle Eastern tourists that purchase their cosmetics products in Turkey. Some come just to buy these products

• Cosmetics
• Middle
• East

Between June 30 and July 14, the CEPEA/ESALQ Index, 8-day payment terms, for cotton type 41-4, delivered in São Paulo, dropped 4.24 per cent, closing at 2.5479 BRL per pound on July 14, the lowest since November 11, 2016.

• Cotton

This accounted for 38 per cent share of the total textile exports by the EU last year. The major importer during the year was the USA, which purchased 20 per cent of the total technical textile exports by the EU.

• Textile
• EU

The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities has targeted exports of Malaysian palm oil and palm-based products to the Philippines to increase to RM3 billion by 2020.

• Palm
• Oil
• Export

Oil prices were a bit lower in European trade on Wednesday, as investors looked ahead to weekly data from the U.S. on stockpiles of crude and refined products later in the global day.

• Oil
• U.S.

In H1, 2017, the PM/PMA markets fluctuated within a narrow range. The PM/PMA peak prices in H1, 2017 were RMB 11,100/mt and RMB 10,100/mt respectively (around Feb 15).

• Coating

The Canadian Beverage Association (CBA) has criticised research that linked artificial sweeteners to obesity, saying the findings were invalid.

• Sweetener

A United Nations standards-setting body today adopted a number of decisions to ensure food safety, including maximum residue limits for a range of drugs used in cattle and other animals.

• Arsenic

'The results showed a statistically significant association between consumption of artificial sweeteners and higher risks of diabetes, heart disease and increased weight gain,' said Dr Azad.

• Sweeteners

General Mills has published a patent for reducing sugars in the coating of ready-to-eat cereals without changing their texture, appearance or bowl life, according to Food Business News.

• Sugar

Xinjiang textile and apparel industry develops well over the past years, with the background of China’s “Belt and Road” strategy.

• Cotton
• Textile

FCfa 260 million. This is the figure on the agreement recently signed by the Cameroonian Ministry of Economy, and the firm Ligne Rouge Consulting, to set up a cluster in the cotton-textile-clothing sector in Cameroon.

• Cotton
• Textile

Hyosung Group, leading textile manufacturer, is collaborating with French textile mill Sofileta to strengthen its presence in European market. Hyosung Creora marked the 25th anniversary of its product

• Hyosung
• Textile

Government has called on industry owners to present plans and recommendations for ways to revive the textile industry in the country, a finance ministry spokesman Ajmal Hamid Abdul Rahimzai said on Tuesday.

• Textile

Researchers from the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) have found that chemicals in everyday plastics are linked to cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure in men.

• Plastics
• Chronic

Guardian Glass has added a new laminated glass production line at its Oroshaza, Hungary plant.

• Guardian
• Glass

Spectracron AdvantEdge HPP primer is a polyurethane primer that breaks new ground in the product category, capable of delivering greater corrosion resistance, edge performance and chip resistance.

• Polyurethane

Cathay Industries USA’s CEO Kevin Miles announced the formation of a dedicated team of industry veterans to expand Cathay’s promotion and commercial...

• Coating
• Cathay