Market Flash

BASF SE Siasun Co. Ltd.'s new collaborative robot, or "cobot," is far lighter than its competitors because it uses more plastics.

• Robot
• Plastics

While China continues to build up its plastics production capacity, continuing demand growth from an increasingly massive base means it is unlikely that the country will ever be self-sufficient

• PE
• Plastic

Pakistan Railways and Pakistan State Oil (PSO) signed on Wednesday a fuel transportation agreement, which will help increase revenue of the national rail company and ensure smooth oil supply across the country.

• Oil
• Pakistan

The world is about to be inundated with cotton as farmers take advantage of high prices to produce more and China floods the market with excess supply from its strategic inventory.

• Textile
• Cotton

The average export price of rubber in the first four months of 2017 was US$2,016 per tonne, a year-on-year increase of 68.8 per cent.

• Rubber
• Price

Soaring summer temperatures blind us into trances where we become attracted to indulge in seemingly harmless tall cones of luscious ice-cream. Wedding fevers back us into corners where we give in just one more decadent sweet.

• Sugar

Did you know that anti-inflammatory foods can help you stop the sneakiest heart disease risk? Although our bodies rely on inflammation to help fight off infections and heal sudden injuries...

• Foods
• Sugar

As interest in eco-friendly products and methods grows, it’s no surprise that many artists and other creatives are planting natural dye gardens.

• Dye
• Natural

Until 2014, the sugar confectionery market in China saw positive volume growth, however 2015 marked a turning-point...

• Sugar
• vitamin

There's a new eco-friendly fibre on the anvil—Austrian speciality fibre-maker Lenzing will soon be launching EcoVero, a viscose with the lowest environmental impact in the industry.

• Fiber

Over 30 international specialists from across the textile industry will gather in Chemnitz in eastern Germany from 18-20 September 2017, for the ‘premiere’ of the Sustainable Textile School.

• Textile

Global fatty amines market is driven by growing water treatment chemicals industry and increasing demand for agro-chemicals and asphalt additives, mainly in the developing countries.

• fatty
• amines
• Coating

More than 500 environmental and consumer groups have called on the governments of the ten Asean member states to ban the use of microplastics in personal care and cosmetic products (PCCPs).

• cosmetics

Skin sensitisation, skin and eye irritation and aquatic toxicity are hazard 'hotspots' for preservatives in personal care products, says US NGO the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

• Cosmetics
• GreenScreen

Pharma Asia is a 3 day event being held from 22nd August to the 24th August 2017 at the Karachi Expo Center in Karachi, Pakistan.

• Pharma
• Pakistan

NWE caustic soda prices hit a four-year high of $440/mt FOB NWE Tuesday amid force majeure at producer AkzoNobel's caustic soda plants at Rotterdam and Frankfurt.

• Caustic
• Soda

Food manufacturers and suppliers are increasingly targeting emerging markets as an export opportunity, a survey of visitors and exhibitors at last week’s Vitafoods Europe show has revealed.

• Vitafoods
• Europe
• Nutrition
• Show
• Ingredients

The EU is to provide scientific advice on the daily intake of added sugar in food by 2020.

• Sugars
• Food Additives

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared 1-bromopropane dangerous enough to make it one of the first 10 chemicals it scrutinized under an updated federal toxins law.

• Chemical

Axalta Coating Systems will present its recently-launched ICONICA collection of Alesta Super Durable architectural powder coatings for metal substrates at Vision 2017, at Olympia, London, on June 6 and 7, 2017.

• Coatings