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US polyethylene producers have a domestic demand problem, with year-to-date sales to North American customers off nearly 9%,

Despite efforts to reduce plastic waste, the world’s rubbish pile continues to build. 

The US PVC market saw an unusually volatile year in 2021, to say the least, and saw another one in 2022.

Chemical recycling, particularly in the U.S., was a dominant theme of the recycled plastics industry in 2022, and it’s

For the European benzene market, perhaps only the football World Cup (which most of us have been watching on our home

Hurricane Nicole’s landfall on the US East Coast caused a sigh of relief among the refining community as the Texas/Louisiana