Policy & Regulation

Despite slower-than-expected monthly expansion, China's foreign trade growth is expected to remain on a positive track amid uncertainties for the year.

• China
• Trade

How factors like digitization, individualization and miniaturization will have a major role for the global pigments industry in changing its colours.

• Colour

The global fracking chemicals & fluids market size was valued at $23.98 billion in 2016, and is projected to grow at an estimated CAGR of 10.3 percent from 2017 to 2025.

• Fracking
• Fluids

From 23 August 2019 cosmetic products containing these substances cannot be placed on the EU market. And from 23 August 2021 items containing them must be removed from the market.

• Cosmetics

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed its review of the 600 new chemicals that were awaiting government approval when Administrator Scott Pruitt took office in February.

• EPA

Canada has proposed an approach to regulating formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products that may follow closely regulations adopted by the US in 2016.

• Formaldehyde
• Aldehyde

The US speciality oleochemicals market size was estimated at 1,097 kilo tonnes in 2015.

• Oleochemicals

The US EPA has published TSCA section 5(a)(3)(C) determinations for five substances that were the subject of pre-manufacture notices (PMNs).

• EPA

The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government is working on offering a gamut of incentives to investors in the textile sector and likely to announce those in the form a policy for textile,

• India
• Textile

As China pushes its Belt and Road Initiative to increase trade between Asia, the Middle East and Europe, polyolefins manufacturer Borouge Pte. Ltd. said it’s expanding its presence in western China.

• Borouge
• Belt and Road

The global low temperature coating market is projected to reach USD 5.13 Billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 6.7% from 2016 to 2021.

• Coating

Transparency Market Research has published a new research report titled “Epoxy Coatings Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2016 - 2024” to their report store.

• Coatings

Future Market Insights has announced the addition of the “Automotive Wheel Coating Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment, 2016-2026"report to their offering.

• Automotive
• Coatings

EPA has entered into a consent agreement with Pharmacia LLC on a cleanup plan to address dioxin contamination at the Kanawha River Superfund Site, in West Virginia.

• EPA

The global fracking chemicals & fluids market size was valued at $23.98 billion in 2016, and is projected to grow at an estimated CAGR of 10.3 percent from 2017 to 2025.

• Fluids

The UK has notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of its draft Regulations banning the use of microbeads as an ingredient in the manufacture of rinse-off personal care products, and the sale of items containing them.

• Chemicals

A US House of Representatives committee has urged the Food and Drug Administration to respond to an NGO petition on the appropriate use of colourants in feminine washes.

• Cosmetics

A coalition of US NGOs is demanding that Kraft, and other processed cheese producers, find and remove the sources of phthalates in their products – an action at least one manufacturer may be ready to take.

• Cheese

The Canadian government has provisionally concluded that 57 substances, including waste substances from the metals industry, are not harmful to consumers or the environment due to low exposure.

• Metal

The European ombudsman has dismissed a complaint by a UK-based animal rights NGO, which argued that the European Commission's approach to animal testing for cosmetics products is misleading.

• Cosmetics
• Testing