Market Flash

The international benzene market hovered at lows and the Chinese benzene market moved marginally. The production cost for cyclohexanone market was not firm.

The Chinese acrylic latex market remained stable, though the butyl acrylate market rebounded. The MMA market prices were at a high level. Up to July 20, 2017,

The materials price index (MPI) from Global Insight by IHS Markit fell 0.7% last week, driven by weakness in the oil and chemicals sectors, the firm announced on Thursday.

• Oil
• Chemical

Nandan Denim’s fabric manufacturing capacity is 110 million meters per annum. Going forward, emphasis will be laid on fashion denim fabrics to target better realizations compared to regular denim material.

• Fabric

In 2014, scientists found a new kind of of “stone” on the beaches of Hawaii. It was made of sand, organic debris, volcanic rock, all swirled together with melted plastic. So they proposed the name “plastiglomerate”

• Plastic

The BCS market will continue the uptrend. First, the EO market will continue to move up on the tight supply.

Paul Lauridsen is a year away from earning his bachelor’s degree, but the chemistry major is already working on the front lines of USC efforts to turn greenhouse gas into methanol fuel.

• Fuel

Aerospace adhesives and sealants are different from regular adhesives and sealants, as they are exposed to high temperature and high-pressure gradients during their lifetime.

• Aerospace
• Adhesives
• Sealants

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