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VIDEO: Europe R-PET July colorless flake, bale prices drop in parts of Europe
LONDON (ICIS)--Senior Editor for Recycling, Matt Tudball, discusses the latest developments in the European recycled polyethylene terephthalate (R-PET) market, including: Colorless bale prices drop...
Germany’s manufacturing orders fall in May, chemicals down 3.3%
LONDON (ICIS)--Following an upward-revised 1.6% April increase, new orders in Germany’s manufacturing sector fell 1.4% month on month in May, according to statistical data released on Friday....
Plant status: China’s Shandong Hongxin shuts acrylic acid plant
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Shandong Hongxin Chemical Co Location: Zibo, Shandong province, China Product: Acrylic acid (AA) Capacity (tonnes/year): 80,000 Event start: 4...
PODCAST: Energy Community has come a long way in reaching founding goals, director
LONDON (ICIS)-- The Energy Community celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Established in the aftermath of the Balkans war and the accession of many central European countries to the EU, the...
DNA barcodes can make drug discovery screens miss potential medicines
Flawed data is likely compromising machine learning methods
Chemistry for the visually impaired that can be felt, heard and smelt
The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, recently brought chemistry alive for students with sight loss
In search of the alchemists of Prague
A city where chemistry lurks almost anywhere you look
From reactor design to the printed schnitzel
Completes months of work in under an hour: ReacTUNE, new software from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), automatically calculates the optimum geometry for chemical reactors and generates directly usable files for their production using
Heaviest tin isotopes provide insights into element synthesis
An international team of researchers, led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process nucleosynthesis in measurements conducted at the Canadian research center TRIUMF in Vancouver. At the center of this work are
From fertilizer to energy source of the future
Ammonia has been traditionally known for fertilizer production. In the future, it could also play a key role in the Energy Transition as an efficient source of hydrogen and a climate-friendly substitute for fossil fuels
NYMEX: US natural gas futures fall despite smaller storage build
US natural gas futures fell on 3 July, despite a smaller storage build compared to recent weeks that reduced the natural gas surplus above the five-year average The August ’25 front-month contract...
CRUDE SUMMARY: Oil prices down as market grows wary of potential US trade-tariff turmoil post 9 July
Bearish sentiment on realization that many US bilateral trade agreements are still to be finalized US bank holiday weekend also disincentivizes investors to take risky positions Mixed news out of...
SHIPPING: Asia-US container rates plunge further as capacity outstrips demand
HOUSTON (ICIS)--Rates for shipping containers from east Asia and China to the US continued to slide this week as demand has eased and capacity has lengthened. Global average rates fell by almost 6%...
Petrobras eyes 2029 for Group II production, mulls RRBO project
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (ICIS)--Petrobras is targeting 2029 for first production from its Group II base oils project at the Boaventura Energy Complex in Itaborai, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, said...
US Congress passes tax bill, to be signed by president
HOUSTON (ICIS)--The US Congress has passed a US tax bill that will soon be signed by the president and become law. Known as the Big, Beautiful Bill, the chemical industry has supported it because it...
Brazil’s protectionism benefits few but ‘suffocates’ plastics transformers, manufacturing – Abiplast
SAO PAULO (ICIS)--Brazil’s highly protectionist model to cushion domestic producers from overseas competition is suffocating other parts of the production chain in a country obliged to import...
Operations across Poland, Lithuania and Czech Republic ‘freed’ from Russian oil – Orlen
LONDON (ICIS)--The Orlen Group said on Monday that from 1 July none of its operations across Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic will use newly shipped Russian oil supplies. A now completed...
ICIS HYDROGEN INSIGHT WEEK 27 NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON (ICIS)--Please find below a short summary of the key hydrogen stories ICIS published in week 26. Summarized in order of publication. US Energy Company Targets €0.43/kg Hydrogen Production:...
H2APEX acquires 1GW German renewable hydrogen project from HH2E
LONDON (ICIS)--On 2 July German hydrogen infrastructure developer H2APEX announced that it had completed the acquisition of the 1GW capacity renewable hydrogen project in Lubmin, Germany from the...
Summer demand dents US natural gas storage surplus
Recent net injection caps nine weeks of growth in US surplus Hot weather forecasts fail to support futures Rising LNG feedgas demand expected to continue growth trend HOUSTON (ICIS)--Despite...