Market Flash

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

GreenMantra Technologies, a rapidly growing clean technology company that produces high-value polymer products from waste plastics, has developed a new line of synthetic polypropylene waxes that provide a unique ra

• Coating

A trial led by a McMaster University respirology professor shows promising results for a new medicine for severe asthma patients.

• Medicine
• Steroid

Library of Congress A photo from the archives of the U.S. Library of Congress shows the Homestake Mine near Spearfish, S.D., in 1900,

• HDPE

Output of natural rubber (NR) in the country last month, the first of the current financial year, showed a rise of 23.1 per cent from the same period a year before, at 48,000 tonnes from the earlier 39,000 tonnes.

• Rubber

Secos Group Ltd. Secos Group Ltd.'s pet products, which include everything from bowls and toys to compostable waste bags, will launch in the U.S. soon.

• Plastics

The markets are betting that the OPEC extension is all but guaranteed after Saudi Arabia and Russia announced their intention to support a nine-month extension. Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih tried to put to rest any possibility of dissention.

• Oil
• Iraq

Melanin is the pigment responsible for human skin and hair color—and it helps protect skin cells from sun damage by absorbing ultraviolet rays and scavenging free radicals.

• Artificial
• Melanin

If you've ever wondered how these names could possibly come to be, you are not alone.

• Paints
• Color

Pittsburgh-based PPG Paints on Monday (May 22) announced three new product formulations.

• Paints

The developed economies, across the globe, are anticipated to witness promising growth throughout the forecast period.

• Cosmetics

Pharmaceutical stocks were under immense pressure during the session, continuing with its fall from Monday as investors reacted to the negative outlook for the sector.

• Pharmaceutical