Here is a first of a series of outlook articles for 2020 where I focus on the risks ahead for the gl...
ReadBy John Richardson NOT since at least the beginning of 2014 have Northeast and Southeast Asian polye...
ReadBy John Richardson THE ASIAN polypropylene (PP) market hasn’t been as bad as the region’s polyet...
ReadBy John Richardson THE MAINSTREAM view is that there is nothing fundamental about the decline in new...
ReadBy John Richardson IT ALL seemed to make perfect sense at the time. Feedstock and financing were inc...
ReadBy John Richardson MALCOLM GLADWELL, in his very thought provoking book The Outliers, writes about w...
ReadBy John Richardson LET’S start with some good news: Vietnamese polyethylene (PE) demand looks set ...
ReadBy John Richardson AS PETROCHEMICALS and other manufacturers scramble to relocate their businesses a...
ReadBy John Richardson DON’T SAY I didn’t tell you. An important new IMF study confirms what I’ve ...
ReadBy John Richardson US BUSINESSES are making arrangements to diversify their supply chains away from ...
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