Policy & Regulation

A deeper dive into regulations impacting the plastics recycling industry will take place during an upcoming webinar from the Association of Plastic Recyclers.

• Regulations
• Recycle

According to reports many spinners who recently participated in yarn fair in Shanghai, China were offered many import orders for yarn fr...

• Pakistan
• Cotton
• Yarn

Today's agreement for the UK to fully withdraw from the EU after a 21-month transition period has been met with a mixed reaction by the food industry.

• Brexit
• Regulation
• Food

Full registration: Substance registrations that include the full set of information required

• REACH
• Registration

The substances are selected for evaluation to clarify the concerns related to their exposure and suspected serious hazard properties: pe...

• REACH
• 2018
• Substances

To comply with the regulation, companies must identify and manage the risks linked to the substances they manufacture and market in the EU.

• REACH

Substances might also enter one of the regulatory processes or activities at any point in time, without strictly following the flow repr...

• Substances
• Concern

Companies established outside the EU: If you are a company established outside the EU, you are not bound by the obligations of REACH, ev...

• REACH
• Effect

Ginners of Punjab offered quality cotton to the buyers around Rs 7,275 per maund while ginners of Sindh offered raw grade of lint to the...

• Pakistan
• Stable
• Price

Demand for cement additives in the US is forecast to expand 7.2% yearly to $2.0 billion in 2022, the fastest rate of increase of any major type of construction chemical.

• Cement
• Reports

The demand for automotive lubricants in India is forecast to increase 5.5% annually through 2021 to reach 1.7-mt. In addition to growth in the country’s light vehicle usage, India’s rapidly expanding motor vehicle production will support demand...

• Lubricant
• India

• REACH
• Deadline
• special events

Persistent growth in the U.S., continued economic expansion in Asia, and a renewal of demand in Europe all bode well for specialty chemical output in 2018, according to the American Chemistry Council.

• Specialty
• Chemicals
• 2018 Outlook

Therefore, MTBE producers were reluctant to cut the MTBE prices.

• MTBE
• China

REACH covers a wide range of chemicals, including agrochemical intermediates and co-formulants. Companies need to submit their registration dossiers by this date in order to continue manufacturing/importing their substances into the EU market.

• REACH
• Deadline

There are two types of evaluation: dossier evaluation and substance evaluation....

• Evaluation
• REACH

Chemicals will be registered in three phases according to the tonnage of the substance: More than 1000 tonnes a year, or substances of h...

• REACH
• Registration

Having detailed information on the substances present in their products will allow retailers to work with the manufacturing base to subs...

• Requirements
• REACH

Supply of substances to the European market which have not been pre-registered or registered is illegal (known in REACH as "no data, no ...

• REACH
• Registration

RSS, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dupps Company, said its Harmonite products have met all the requirements of the EuropeanUnion’s REACH Article33 “Substances of Very High Concern”communications protocols.

• REACH
• Harmonite
• Dupps