By John Richardson THE European polyolefins industry is quite often viewed as an industry with limit...
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ReadBy John Richardson EARLIER this year a commonly held view was that globalisation would slip into rev...
ReadBy John Richardson WHEN has a European cracker gone beyond its useful life? Forty or 50 years? Or ma...
ReadBy John Richardson HERE are a few important facts about polyethylene (PE): China accounted for 30%, ...
ReadBy John Richardson For once, we are not going to talking about demand but will instead focus only on...
ReadBy John Richardson THE blog has met many Iranian delegates during its seven years of working for ICI...
ReadBy John Richardson THROUGH the narrow lens of stand-alone cost competitiveness, the threatened refin...
ReadBy John Richardson EXCESSIVE inventory building down all the major petrochemical value chains is a g...
ReadBy John Richardson US feedstock advantages appear to provide an almost overwhelming case for a big w...
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