By John Richardson IN the good old days everybody could very easily export just about all their surplus chemicals and polymers volumes to China for two very obvious reasons. Firstly, even real GDP growth, never mind the fabricated government numbers, was nearly always close to or actually in double digits. And secondly, China was short of […]
Asian Chemical Connections
China’s Polyester Crisis: The Global Implications
By John Richardson EVERYWHERE you turn it looks bad in China, especially in the polyester value chain. “So has it always been in polyester. Because of its ownership structure, capacities up and down the chain are often out of sync,” said an industry observer. “Hence, the current big overhang in purified terephthalic acid (PTA) capacity […]
What the flipping heck is going on?….
…….and no trite Public Relations-speak answers, please!!! This is not me, by the way, (my computer is an older model) but the expression about sums it up www.scienceblogs.com No matter where you seem to turn these days, whether it’s to the refinery industry or to any chemicals production chain, the story is more or […]
Jump to page: