Home Blogs Asian Chemical Connections

Asian Chemical Connections
China’s petchems market rally: we don’t have enough data to decide whether it is sustainable
25th February 2021 by

By John Richardson CHINA’S PETROCHEMICAL prices typically increase when the Lunar New Year (LNY) h...

Read
China PX imports could fall by 64% in 2021 with styrene imports 59% lower
23rd February 2021 by

By John Richardson AS OF yesterday, around 70% of US paraxylene capacity was offline. No less than 6...

Read
China’s PP imports in 2021 could fall by as much as 53% over last year
21st February 2021 by

By John Richardson TODAY I get closer to completing my outlooks for China’s petrochemical and poly...

Read
China slowdown may be the biggest petchem event in H1, not US and European tight supply
18th February 2021 by

By John Richardson I SUSPECT that the bigger story for the global petrochemicals industry in H1 may ...

Read
China’s ethylene glycols imports could decline by 45% in 2021
16th February 2021 by

By John Richardson LET ME start with the good news first. As with the global polyethylene (PE) and p...

Read
China’s polyethylene imports set to remain very strong in 2021
14th February 2021 by

By John Richardson DEMAND, as I discussed on 11 February, will not be a problem for the global polye...

Read
Petrochemicals and demand: a deer caught in the headlights
11th February 2021 by

By John Richardson THE THING is, as I discussed in my 9 February blog post, we simply do not have ou...

Read
Global PP demand to remain resilient in 2021 even if we fail to control the pandemic
9th February 2021 by

By John Richardson THE ABOVE chart, using polypropylene (PP) as an example, neatly crystallises an a...

Read
The new oil shocks: semiconductor supply shortages threaten the global economy
2nd February 2021 by

By John Richardson HIGH VALUE semiconductors, which are defined as five nanometres (billionths of a ...

Read
China petrochemicals overstocking likely substantial as Q1 slowdown risks increase
31st January 2021 by

By John Richardson THE ABOVE chart on the left – showing average month-on-month percentage increas...

Read

Tags

12th Five-Year-Plan ageing populations Babyboomers China China credit China economic reforms China economy China environment China inflation China intellectual property abuses China petrochemicals China plastics industry Coronavirus COVID-19 cracker demographics Donald Trump Dow Chemical European economy European petrochemicals global economy global trade war India LLDPE middle-income trap Middle East petrochemicals New Normal OBOR oil prices one-child policy petrochemicals polyethylene polymers polyolefins polypropylene Saudi Arabia shale gas the Fed US-China trade war US economy US petrochemicals US polyethylene US shale gas US tariffs on steel and aluminium Xi Jinping
Jump to page: