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Houston-based Westlake Chemical Corp. will acquire the parent company of Dimex LLC, a Marietta, Ohio-based manufacturer of recycled compounds and products with approximately $100 million in annual sales.
Import PE prices in Southeast Asia have extended their gains into the eleventh consecutive week as tight availability continues to support the upward trend. Regional and overseas suppliers approached the market with further increases this week, yet they confirmed that buyers’ resistance was still in place and keeping hike amou...
A day ahead of expiry, May contract for the US oil benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) on NYMEX collapsed to below zero for the first time ever on Monday amid an oversupplied market and a sharp contraction in oil demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
ABS prices across China and Southeast Asia have been following a downward trend since early February mainly due to subdued demand amid the rapid spread of COVID-19 outbreak.
Tightness propped up LDPE and HDPE film prices despite waning demand in Asian markets, while LLDPE yielded to weak demand. In Turkey, ample supplies were also blamed for the weakness of LLDPE.
The American Cleaning Institute is fighting back against a report claiming that the film on detergent pods are contributing to pollution.
Global economies have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, which rattled each and every sector all around the world and tampered with market dynamics in an unprecedented way.
With Europe becoming the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, run cuts or closures at downstream plants have been on the agenda. Meanwhile, rising freight rates amid a shortage of containers and increased checks at borders indicate that supply chain disruptions lurk around the corner.
The global COVID-19 pandemic continued to mark a negative impact on global oil and petrochemicals’ companies’ financial results. The pandemic-driven loss of demand and the volatile macro-economic environment associated with the global response to COVID-19 were both reflected in the producers’ latest revenues.