The demand for construction paints and coatings is mainly prompted by growing infrastructure activities globally and the growing demand for water borne paints and coatings. Asia Pacific dominates the global market for construction paints ...
Tags: Paints, Coatings, Construction, Decoration
MEGlobal has set its April North American benchmark price for monoethylene glycol at 51 cents/lb, down 3 cents/lb from March levels, a company source said Friday. The reduction was anticipated. Earlier this month, MEGlobal nominated its ...
Tags: PET makers, CFR
The US ethylene market could have six new world-scale steam crackers online by 2017-2019, Dow Chemical's Jim Fitterling said Wednesday. Speaking at the IHS World Petrochemical Conference in Houston, Fitterling announced expansions for the ...
With the pace of U.S. economic growth seen speeding up later this year and next, many business economists expect the Federal Reserve to end its bond purchases this fall or even earlier. The consensus of the 48 economists surveyed by the ...
Tags: U.S.economic, GDP, inflation
Argentinian polymer and synthetic rubber output rose 3.4% in February compared with the year-earlier period, the state statistics office Indec said Friday. Production of these petrochemicals fell 2% in February compared with January, ...
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, has published its sustainability report for the 2013 financial year. The report focuses on long-term value creation for internal and external stakeholders and the progress made over the ...
The global market for biocides is expected to reach $10,745.7 million by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Growing population coupled with growing concerns for industrial waste water treatment is expected to drive ...
Tags: Biocides Market, Halogen compounds, Water treatment applications
(Phys.org) —Like a spring connecting two swings, light can act as photon glue that binds together the quantum mechanical properties of two vastly different materials. The effect could harness the most useful characteristics from ...
US polyethylene contracts rose 4 cents/lb in February after producers were successful in implementing the hike that had been anticipated since the end of 2013, market sources said. Producer sources had expressed confidence in obtaining ...
Tags: Polyethylene, Chemicals
Argentine polymer and synthetic rubber output rose 4.3% in January compared with the year-earlier period, state statistics office Indec said Friday. Production of these petrochemicals fell 5.4% in January compared with December, Indec ...
Tags: Polymer Output, Polymer
Laser sales set to grow with recovering economies 10 Feb 2014 Seminar in San Francisco hears that sensing applications will be a key growth driver in the coming years. Lasers on show The global laser industry, strong in many areas ...
Tags: Lasers, 3D printing, Nogee, GDP
Oil futures settled higher Monday on support from firm US equities, geopolitical tensions and an easing of Libyan oil output, but the upside was limited by weak Chinese and eurozone data. NYMEX April crude settled 62 cents higher at ...
Tags: Oil Futures, oil output
Spot prices for delivered cargoes of North Sea propane have increased on renewed buying from the petrochemicals sector, according to industry sources. In the early part of this month the spot price of CIF North Sea propane was just above ...
Tags: Propane, Petrochemicals
With China canceling a corn purchase,the market finished lower Thursday.However,soybeans closed higher on crop-weather concerns abroad. At the close,the March corn futures contract finished 1/4 of a cent lower at$4.43.The March soybean ...
Tags: soybeans, soybean futures, Brent crude oil
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The near term supply remains tight and demand continues to look strong, keeping the fundamentals pretty much bullish. Past that – there's acreage position squaring against corn and ...