By John Richardson DECLINES IN Chinese apparent demand for high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) gathered pace in January-April 2021: January-April 2021 apparent demand for HDPE fell by 12% to to 5.5m tonnes versus the last four months of 2020. This compared with an 8% decline in Q1 2021 over Q4 2020. PP apparent consumption […]
Asian Chemical Connections
India’s Economic Problems Further Exposed
By John Richardson CHEMICALS company executives are going on the record to say that the outlook for growth in China has become exceptionally uncertain. This echoes comments first made by the blog 18 months ago. At that time, the consensus view amongst analysts seemed to be that China was definitely heading for a Supercycle, when it […]
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