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Plant status: Celanese Germany VAM unit down for rest of 2025
LONDON (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Celanese Location: Frankfurt, Germany Product: Vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) Capacity (tonnes/year): 305,000 Event start: July 2025 Event finish:...
Plant status: Orlen Unipetrol Litvinov cracker off line due to technical issue
LONDON (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Orlen Unipetrol Location: Litvinov, Czech Republic Products: Ethylene, propylene Capacity (tonnes/year): 585,000 (ethylene), 320,000 (propylene)...
Pakistan’s June base oils supply falls
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Pakistan’s base oils supply held at a five-month low in June even amid signs of healthy domestic lube consumption. Lower supply and firm demand raised the prospect of squeezing...
Iran urea exports continue to fall in July following production and security issues
LONDON (ICIS)--In Iran, urea exports in January-July were 44% lower at nearly 1.9 million tonnes compared to over 3.3 million tonnes in the same period of 2024, according to customs data, as...
Impact of UKCS production drop could accelerate if gas demand reductions taper towards 2030
UKCS production forecast to decline significantly by 2030 Reductions in core domestic demand likely to slow after accelerated pullback due to inflated prices in energy crisis Gap between UKCS...
Germany Q4 ’25 dropping but winter risks still remain
German power baseload Q4 ’25 contract dropping in recent sessions, following THE and TTF gas counterparts The country's storage fullness is at risk as largest site Rehden remains low Germany will...
German wholesale prices rise 0.5% year on year in July, chemicals up 2.5%
LONDON (ICIS)--Wholesale prices in Germany rose by 0.5% year on year in July, following increases of 0.9% in June and 0.4% in May, the country’s federal statistics office reported on Wednesday....
Brazil’s Unigel seeks court protection, mediation to preserve liquidity during creditor negotiations
MADRID (ICIS)--Unigel has filed for urgent cautious protection and initiated mediation proceedings to suspend creditor actions while concluding restructuring negotiations and completing a new...
LTEG partners with Japan’s ITOCHU to develop green ammonia project in India
LONDON (ICIS)--L&T Energy GreenTech Ltd (LTEG) has entered into a joint development agreement with Japan’s ITOCHU Corporation to develop and commercialise a 300,000 tonne/year green ammonia...
Urea demand remains healthy in India despite rains slowing
LONDON (ICIS)--In India, urea demand remains healthy despite a small slowdown in rainfall from end July, as farmers sowed more crops due to the early onset of the monsoon and above average rainfall...
What are the top journals in chemistry right now?
Following the recent release of journal impact factors, we round up the leading journals across 10 chemistry fields
Cheap virgin plastic limits recycling potential
Global plastic treaty negotiations risk being derailed by minority opposed to production caps
New adhesive is so sticky it can glue a rubber duck to a seaside rock
Features of 25,000 biological adhesives analysed to create glues stronger than any found in nature
Water on a nanoscale
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have fundamentally questioned previous assumptions about how water behaves in atomically small spaces. Using spectroscopic methods and simulations, they investigated water that is confined to just
The ALTANA Group achieves top rating in EcoVadis assessment
ALTANA has achieved an outstanding result in the latest sustainability assessment by the international ratings platform EcoVadis, earning the Platinum Medal. Across all industries, ALTANA AG, with its business divisions BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA,
Researchers at European XFEL create a novel gold compound
Gold is considered chemically extremely inert. Researchers at European XFEL have now demonstrated that, under extreme conditions, this arguably the most precious of all metals becomes chemically active. Using the world's largest X-ray laser, they
SHIPPING: Asia-US container rates could face upward pressure after China tariff pause
HOUSTON (ICIS)--With the recent announcement that China and the US have agreed to suspend tariffs on each other’s goods for an additional 90 days to 10 November, shipping consultant Lars Jensen...
NYMEX: US natural gas futures fall on demand outlook, production
US natural gas futures fell on 12 August, with the September front-month shedding nearly 5% from the previous session The September ’25 contract settled at $2.808/MMBtu Henry Hub futures have...
USDA expecting record corn production but lowers soybean forecast
HOUSTON (ICIS)--The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is forecasting that corn production will be at a record level of 16.7 billion bushels but has lowered soybean output to 4.3 billion bushels...