Market Flash

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

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