Petrochemicals

Mexico-based Orbia plans to build integrated chlor alkali PVC capacity in Texas as it anticipates tightening supply

Jul 22, 2023

Orbia, a Mexico City-based firm with global operations that makes goods including specialty PVC and plastic resins, will do its own research to understand the true supply outlook for this resin heavily used in home fixtures and water pipes, and mull the...

North American polypropylene market sees in 2023 receding demand after price volatility

Jul 12, 2023

The North American polypropylene market is as of mid-2023 marked by contracting demand as some consumers have reacted to volatile prices not just so far this year but since 2021, a time of high margins when some producers boasted about earnings above peers as...

U.S. plastics, rubber manufacturing faces declining workers, lower productivity in 2023

Jul 11, 2023

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released in mid-2023 data related to employment in manufacturing of plastic, synthetic filaments and rubber products that showed that the number of workers in those activities fell in recent years, including so far in 2023...

Brazil-based soda and chlorine producer Unipar Carbocloro to audit bigger Braskem for a purchase; AmSty advances with efforts to have 30% recycled content in food packaging by 2030

Jul 11, 2023

News Briefs

Dow and P&G design air-capsule packaging for online commerce; Industrial coatings market seen expanding 3.8% annually until 2027; Chemistry association of Canada welcomes updated Canadian Environmental Protection Act

Jun 19, 2023

News Briefs

Global committee to work on binding draft for accord on plastic pollution as U.S. delegation seen taking leadership

Jun 6, 2023

The second session of the so-called Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee that works on accords around reducing plastic pollution, including marine, ended its June 3 meeting in Paris with a mandate for the “INC Chair to prepare a zero draft of the agreement...

Pemex reports increases in crude processing after refinery work; Methyl methacrylate market seen doubling in size by 2030

May 23, 2023

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U.S. plastic resin production sees 7.3% monthly decrease in Feb. 2023; Canada’s InterPipeline to add random copolymers in coming months; Canadian chemical group comments on 2023 federal budget; Caprolactam market seen expanding at 5% annual rate

Apr 7, 2023

News Briefs

New specialty plastic companies follow recent U.S. large resin commodities capacity expansion

Mar 6, 2023

After over a decade of investment in North America to take natural gas from shale deposits to build plastic resin plants able to churn out hundreds of thousands of tonnes of pellets, another significant development a bit further downstream the American oil...

Rail union member: more staff, shorter trains may prevent chemical cargo derailments

Feb 20, 2023

The Feb. 3, 2023 derailment of about three dozen rail cars, including five with vinyl chloride monomer (an intermediate for PVC), along the Ohio River, the biggest tributary of the Mississippi by volume, and the ensuing fire for about five days forcing a town...

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