Redox Chemical Industries

S&P Global | March 25, 2020

While chemical manufacturing is among sectors deemed critical to combat the spread of the coronavirus, markets continue to face serious challenges as end-users step back and cancel or postpone orders, unable to gauge demand in the coming weeks and months amid increasing stay-at-home orders throughout the Americas. Some polymer markets are showing the strain, as export markets want less US polyvinyl chloride, a construction staple and key economic indicator, and US prices for polyethylene terepht...

Mlive | June 09, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has pushed many businesses to innovate or retool with new areas of focus, and Howell’s Nyatex Adhesive and Chemical Co. is among them. The chemical company has a primary focus on automotive plastics and adhesives, but began producing hand and surface sanitizer once company President Jason Hulbert realized he had the means to do so. Hulbert said the company is always adjusting what it produces based on industry demands, and built-in access to the suppliers and chemi...

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chemicals | December 10, 2020

The UK synthetic compounds industry on Wednesday cautioned again that a no-bargain end to Brexit would harm synthetic substances exchange and venture. In front of what is broadly observed as the basic gathering in post-Brexit exchange talks between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday night, the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) encouraged the two leaders to conclude and consent to a deregulation arrangement (FTA)....

CEN | February 05, 2020

With its escalating infections, city shutdowns, and nationwide transportation halts, the coronavirus epidemic is starting to strain China’s chemical industry. But experts see the impact as manageable and, they hope, shortlived. By the afternoon of Feb. 5, 24,423 people were confirmed infected with the new virus, 16,678 of them in the central Chinese province of Hubei. The death toll in the province was 472, more than the 349 people who died in China from the SARS virus in 2003. The governm...