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CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY

Sekisui Specialty Chemicals | August 30, 2022

Sekisui Specialty Chemicals announced that it is beginning feasibility studies for expansion of its Polyvinyl Alcohol supply network in order to meet the growing needs of its downstream customers. SSC already operates three world scale PVOH units globally, with two in the US and one in Spain, and plans to make highly capital-efficient investments to expand its operations and help support customer growth. "Sekisui Specialty Chemicals is a global lea...

ICIS | February 06, 2020

China’s planned rollback of tariffs on certain imports from the US starting on 14 February will impact a number of key polymers and chemicals. China will roll back the 5-10% tariffs imposed on $75bn of US imports in the 4th round of tariffs in the US-China trade war by half to 2.5-5%. Those “part one” tariffs in the 4th round were implemented on 1 September 2019, before the phase one US-China trade deal signed on 15 January. Part two of the 4th round of tariffs never went into ...

CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT

Datacor, NACD | June 02, 2021

Datacor, Inc., a leading provider of process manufacturing and distribution software, and the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) released their 2021 State of the Chemical Industry Report today, which measures their organization's and the industry's experiences, challenges, and takeaways from 2020, as well as their plans and expectations for both their organization and the industry in 2021. The report is based on a survey of 200 industry experts from various job function...

CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT

Johnson Matthey | August 04, 2022

On 2nd August 2022, A Memorandum of Understanding signed by Sinopec Capital and Johnson Matthey China signals the start of active dialogues to explore joint possibilities across green and blue hydrogen, fuel cells, decarbonisation technologies and circular economy business in China. Mr ZHOU Meiyun, Deputy Chairman and General Manager of Sinopec Capital, said: "Sinopec has made its long term development strategic goal and dedicated to become a No.1 hydrogen company in China an...