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South Korea H1 2025 sulphuric acid interactive trade map
LONDON (ICIS)--South Korea’s Trade Statistics Promotion Institute (KTSPI) has released sulphuric acid trade data for January-June...
Plant status: TotalEnergies’ Gonfreville, France cracker site restart underway
LONDON (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: TotalEnergies Location: Gonfreville, France Product: ethylene, propylene, butadiene (BD) Capacity (tonnes/year): 525,000 (ethylene), 260,000...
European Commission announces provisional ABS anti-dumping duties against South Korea and Taiwan
LONDON (ICIS)--The European Commission has announced provisional anti-dumping duties (ADD) on acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) material imported from South Korea and Taiwan to Europe, according...
‘I barely sleep for four hours’: Are pesticides robbing farmers worldwide of sleep?
Studies point to an emerging link between a range of pesticides and insomnia
Serial femtosecond crystallography reveals protein dynamics in real time
Proteins are constantly moving, but our structures of them are static. Clare Sansom talks to the researchers using free-electron lasers to make time-resolved structures
WACKER commissions new production line for semiconductor-grade polysilicon at Burghausen site
Wacker Chemie AG commissioned the Etching Line Next, its new production line for the manufacture of ultra-pure semiconductor-grade polysilicon, at its Burghausen production site in Germany. Accompanied by customers, suppliers and project partners, high-profile figures
Programmable DNA Moiré Superlattices: Expanding the Material Design Space at the Nanoscale
Researchers are creating new moiré materials at the nanometer scale using advanced DNA nanotechnology: DNA moiré superlattices form when two periodic DNA lattices are overlaid with a slight rotational twist or positional offset. This creates
AmphiStar secures €12.5m EIC funding to bring its biosurfactants to market
Belgian biosurfactants developer AmphiStar has been awarded €12.5m in funding following the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) latest evaluation round. The award follows a highly competitive multi-stage application and interview process, which saw EIC consider nearly
50 years´ Bodo Möller Chemie: From family firm to global player
In 2025, the Bodo Möller Chemie Group is looking back over five decades of successful company history as a family-run solutions provider and partner to global chemical companies such as BASF, Dow, DuPont, Henkel, and
MOVES: Genesis Fertilizers appoints Derek Penner as President-CEO
HOUSTON (ICIS)-- Fertilizer developer Genesis Fertilizers has appointed Derek Penner as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director. The company said Penner is a chartered professional...
Canadian Commercial Corporation signs contract for potash supply in Bangladesh
HOUSTON (ICIS)--The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) announced that it signed a new government-to-government contract with the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) for...
BHP faces increased costs at Canada potash project, resets start of production to mid-2027
HOUSTON (ICIS)--Mining major BHP announced it will now cost between $7 billion to $7.4 billion for the first stage of the Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan with production reset to begin in...
NYMEX: US natural gas futures rise on weather demand
US natural gas futures rose on 18 July, on stronger weather-driven demand from warm summer forecasts The August ’25 front-month contract settled at $3.565/MMBtu, up 0.6% from the prior session...
5 key ICIS LNG stories of the week
ICIS Analyst View: Opportunities and challenges for Northeast Asian markets in the upcoming LNG glut. In the coming few years, ICIS is projecting a downtrend for oil-linked long term LNG prices and...
Europe PS July contract prices decrease for fourth consecutive month, distribution prices also lower
LONDON (ICIS)--July contract prices have decreased at a mid-point of €65/tonne in the Europe polystyrene (PS) market, mainly driven by the €72/tonne contract price decrease for upstream styrene....
Europe EPS contract prices fall in July, mainly driven by styrene
LONDON (ICIS)--July contract prices have decreased €70/tonne in the Europe expandable polystyrene (EPS) market, mainly driven by the upstream styrene €72/tonne decrease. This is the fourth...
Europe ABS July contract prices decrease double digits for fourth month in a row
LONDON (ICIS)--July contract prices have decreased €50/tonne in the European acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) market, mainly driven by composite feedstock costs, including the €72/tonne...
CRUDE SUMMARY: Oil prices rally in early trading but faded despite new EU sanctions on Russia crude
EU lowers price cap to $47.60/barrel on Russian crude exports Moscow’s shadow tanker fleet likely to limit impact of EU diktat Missile attacks on Kurdistan unlikely to alter outcome of Ceyhan...
OUTLOOK H2 ’25: Europe PET defies seasonal logic, and winter may hold steady
LONDON (ICIS)--The polyethylene terephthalate (PET) peak season is lost to inconsistent weather and weak economics generally and is unlikely to make a miraculous recovery as winter sets in. Producers...
Canada May manufacturing capacity utilization rises; chemicals rise to 75.3%
TORONTO (ICIS)--Capacity utilization in Canadian manufacturing rose by 2.2 percentage points, from 76.4% in April to 78.6% in May, with utilization in the chemical industry up 3.3 percentage points...