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  • Tainted food hits polymer sales

    As if the problems confronting China's polyolefin markets were not enough, sales have apparently been further hit by the tainted food scares which began with baby's milk. A wide range of products are now affected with Cadbury becoming the latest global confectionary brand to withdraw some of...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008

  • A drowning man will clutch onto anything

    A drowning man will grab hold of any floating debris - even a plastic bag made from standard-grade Chinese polyethylene (PE). Hence, last Friday a statement by Wang Tianpu led to a few days of excited speculation about the cancellation of several Chinese cracker projects . The president of Sinopec Corp...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008

  • Yes, I know - I was wrong!

    Anybody who has had the misfortune to have to listen to me ranting on about Peak Oil of late might have heard - if they managed to stay awake long enough - that I predicted crude could not fall below $100 a barrel because of the fundamentals. I must admit my first reaction when I heard on the radio this...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008

  • Life gets more complicated for methanol

    In the good or maybe the bad old days depending on your standpoint, methanol was a fairly straightforward product. You had chemicals demand and that was more or less it. But as the extended analysis below explains, chemical producers who use methanol as feedstock have to factor in direct blending...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-31-2008
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