By John Richardson EVERY petrochemicals company needs to understand the above map and its implications for global trade flows over the next 20 years. Failure to understand and respond to what this map is telling you would be a very costly error. Let’s start with understanding what One Belt, One Road actually means: The One […]
Asian Chemical Connections
China To Stop Importing Chemicals As It Exports New Technologies
By John Richardson LAST Friday I discussed how, even without the impact of demographics on demand, it is mathematically impossible to fit one two billion into two billion. Now bear with me for a few minutes. The themes I discussed on Friday are so critically important to how the global chemicals industry measures growth that […]
How China’s New Silk Road Is Reshaping Global Chemicals
By John Richardson THE red line on the map below, from the Washington Post, shows the world’s longest-ever freight-train journey, which began on 18 November in Yiwu, the largest wholesale centre for small consumer goods in China. It ended 21 days later, in December, in Madrid. The distance that the train covered — more than […]
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