Insight
The Chemical Reaction
Report summary
Welcome to the Chemical Reaction. In this rolling blog Wood Mackenzie analysts bring you their take on the trends and stories impacting the chemical industry. This includes: • Mergers and acquisitions • New asset announcements, projects and closures • Earnings reports from major chemical companies • Trends in the chemical industry. This is covered across Wood Mackenzie's full range of chemicals with analysts globally highlighting the key events in their region – and giving their take on events.
Table of contents
- Latest insights
- Upcoming events
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India into the PA market – present andfuture
- Aditya Ambegaokar , 27 January 2023
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Cautiously improving prospects of China’s local textile market in 2023
- Emma Liu, 13 January 2023
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Changes on the horizon for ethoxylates markets
- Siddhant Warrier, Mohamed Chilmeran, Nishita Sabharwal, 22 December 2022
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Proposal for revised Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive published by European Commission
- Qamreen Parker, David Buckby, 16 December 2022
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South Korea's trucker strike limits polyethylene export volume, pressures on inventory
- Chris Liu, 12 December 2022
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CPChem and QatarEnergy blaze ahead to add 20% of US HDPE capacity
- Shruthi Vangipuram, 28 November 2022
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Key factors adding pressure to European PX and PTA producers' cost structures
- Cristina de Santos, Gustavo Hernández Montemayor, 23 November 2022
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GASping for breath
- Timur Zilbershteyn, 22 November 2022
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CPChem and QatarEnergy blaze ahead to add 20% of US HDPE capacity
- Ashish Chitalia, Shruthi Vangipuram, 18 November 2022
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How has the Russian invasion of Ukraine impacted benzene and derivatives trade routes?
- Farrukh Novruzov, Jie Su, 11 November 2022
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The bottles war: recycling of PET, and the looming fight for supply
- Burna Angel, Salmon Aidan Lee, Andrew Brown, 7 November 2022
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China's nylon supply chains - shifting trade flows lead to an export-oriented development
- Anna Zhao, 3 November 2022
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High energy prices in Europe: crunch time for the regional fibres industry
- Alexei Sinitsa, Bruna Angel, 21 October 2022
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Asia BOPET film expansions push already long market even longer
- David Buckby, Julian Lozowick, 11 October 2022
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Q2 2022
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Q1 2022
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