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Europe MPG spot prices steady despite some demand support
LONDON (ICIS)--Prices in the European monopropylene glycol (MPG) spot market were assessed stable in the week ending 18 July as demand in general is constrained. The premium for MPG USP...
Dutch OWE subsidy awards €1.78 million per MW, Air Liquide and Uniper secure largest share
LONDON (ICIS)--On 21 July a spokesperson for the Dutch Ministry of Climate and Green Growth told ICIS that €1.78 million per megawatt (MW) of electrolysis capacity is the average grant amount for...
Zero-priced Italian PUN hours to reoccur in August, ICIS forecast shows
ICIS Power Foresight is predicting 23 hours in August during which the Italian PUN price will fall below €10/MWh, six of which will be zero-priced 'Low-cost' hours have been occurring more and more...
Uzbekistan Jan-April 2025 urea interactive trade map
LONDON (ICIS)--The UN Comtrade database has released Uzbekistan’s urea trade data for January-April...
Belgian gas transit to remain elevated in Q3
West-to-east gas flows across Europe to persist, with ZTP key facilitator Germany key demand hub due to injection demand, eastern Europe pulling flows British exports to Belgium likely to slow in Q4...
European PVC spot prices fall, under pressure from Asia
LONDON (ICIS)--European polyvinyl chloride (PVC) spot prices trended down in the week ending 18 July, as the long global market weighed on availability. Domestic free delivered (FD) spot prices fell...
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...