Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'textiles and garments'

Unravelling China's polyester market

By Malini Hariharan (Malini is now joint blogger for Asian Chemical Connections) China's immense appetite this year for all petrochemicals has been puzzling many of us. This blog has been regularly asking questions and some answeres for the polyester and...

China's chemical imports up - again!

By John Richardson We don't have the actual data yet (hopefully, we'll be able to give you the numbers later this week), but...... ......China's commodity chemicals and polymer imports "continued to amaze" in September with monoethylene glycol (MEG) shipments hitting...

China petchem output up, textiles down

The Canton Trade Fair Source of picture: Blawg.lehman.com This interesting article from Bloomberg says that while petrochemical output in China rose in August, textile production actually contracted. We don't as yet have any breakdown for specific petrochemicals. If the overall...