The Chemical Industry The Troubles Caused by China’s Aromatics Boom How China’s surge in aromatic chemical production is hurting Europe and Japan.
The Chemical Industry Chemical Recycling: Sustainable, Profitable, or Just Green-Washing? Is the advanced chemical recycling of plastics the best route for dealing with plastic waste?
Raw Materials When the Right Raw Materials Create Cooling Coatings Coating specialists and raw material suppliers team up to keep homes cool in the summer heat.
The Chemical Industry Playmobil Toys Act on New Plant-Based Industrial Feedstock Playmobil figures step towards the sustainability that Lego failed to achieve.
The Chemical Industry Where is the AI in Chemical Manufacturing and Supply? Why aren’t more industrial chemical businesses taking the leap and adopting AI systems?
The Plastics Industry Recycled Feedstock Projects Manufacture Clothing and Carbon Fibres Reduced costs and improved sustainability made possible with recycled raw materials for manufacturing textiles and carbon fibre.
The Chemical Industry To a More Sustainable Glass Industry with Lower Raw Material Costs A project which reused the raw materials from recycled greenhouse glass is showing a route to a more environmentally friendly horticultural sector.
The Chemical Industry The Multiple Challenges Facing the European Chemical Industry European chemical producers face a gloomy outlook thanks to the many issues combining to create a perfect storm.
The Chemical Industry Is this the Year of the Bioplastic? Technology, politics, and public opinion are all changing to support the development, investment, and expansion of European bioplastics.
The Chemical Industry Polymer Researchers Renew Analysis of Tara Gum as a Feedstock Will the modification of this sustainable, bio-degradable polymer feedstock find improvements and greater versatility in the food packaging sector?
The Chemical Industry Counting the Price of War on the Global Economy How the fighting in Ukraine has impacted global raw material supplies.
The Chemical Industry 9 Chemical Industry Factors to Watch in 2024 What 2024 will bring industrial chemical suppliers, manufacturers, and consumers?
The Chemical Industry A Chemically Christmas Definition What Christmas means for raw material and industrial chemical suppliers.
The Chemical Industry 7 Ways to Ensure the Quality of a Raw Material Supplier Is your industrial ingredients provider up to scratch?
The Chemical Industry The Pain and the Beauty of ISO Tank Containers The ins and outs, the specifications, the pros, the cons of ISO tanktainers.
The Chemical Industry Start-Up Finds Success with Carbon-Negative Industrial Chemicals Has this chemical manufacturer found the right process and a winning business model for the green chemical sector?
The Chemical Industry Chemical Industry Chief Explains Way to Realise Eco-Vision A strategic route to a more environmentally friendly chemical industry.
The Chemical Industry Europe’s Chemical Industry Challenge and Plan Can REACH regulation and net zero goals really save Europe’s chemical producers?
The Chemical Industry Brussels Ponders REACH Overhaul and Chemical Sector Priorities EU Commission again delays revising chemical industry legislation, as economic growth is put ahead of environmental health.
Raw Materials Europe’s Rare Earth Element Self-Sufficiency Solutions Can Europe recycle, manufacture, or trade its way to rare earth element self-sufficiency?
Raw Materials Europe’s Rare Earth Element Self-Sufficiency Challenge Can the EU become dependency free for critical raw materials?
The Chemical Industry A Cheaper Process for Using C02 as an Industrial Chemical Feedstock The challenges of using CO2 as a raw material may now have been overcome by an up-scalable process using nanomaterials.
The Plastics Industry How Chemical Recycling Looks to Blend with Mechanical Technology and economics are helping chemical recyclers to find a role that cooperates with the already well-established mechanical plastic recyclers.
Raw Materials Can CO2 Become the Ultimate Polymer Feedstock? “I don’t expect that science and economics will support the concept of CO2 polymerization.” Are the experts wrong again?
The Chemical Industry How EU Dependency on Chinese Rare Earths Threatens Green Revolution Will geopolitics kill Europe’s Green Deal and its net zero commitments?