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The article focuses on China has become a major phenolic resins producer, consumer and also a net exporter and its export variety and volume will continue rising in the years to come. Topics include Chinese phenol resins producers are mainly located in east China, and the tens of thousands of phenolic resins plastics processors distributed in all kinds of electronic and electrical products of circuit board.

The article offers information regarding removal of phenolic and amine compounds in a sour water stripper. It mentions that non-phenolic sour water stripper (SWS) unit strips hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the sour water generated in the EBR and vacuum gasoil (VGO) hydrocracking units. It presents information on emissions limits in phenols and sulfides in treated water discharge.

Under a suitable thermal oxidation regime, vegetable oils yield a mixture of volatile and semivolatile organics that exhibit very high antimicrobial activities against a variety of microbial species. Volatile and semivolatile products were characterized with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) equipped with electron ionization (El) and chemical ionization (Cl) sources. The GC-MS results showed that the antimicrobial mixture comprised short and medium chain organic acids, aldehydes, and ketones, including propanal, butanal, hexanal, octanal, nonanal, propionic acid, hexanoic acid, heptanoic acid, and octanoic acid. Microbial exposure experiments showed that a short exposure period of less than 2 min was effective in killing vegetative bacterial cells with efficiencies as high as 109. The present report deals primarily with chemical characterization of the volatile and semivolatile organics with GC-MS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses that Ineos has completed the previously announced acquisition of Mitsui Chemicals' phenol business in Singapore, along with mentions that deal comprises all of Mitsui Phenols' assets on Jurong Island.

The article offers food industry news brief as of August 1, 2018 in the U.S. Topics discussed, include the identified phenolics with a liquid chromatography-mass spectrophotometry (LC-MS) system of researchers, the concern of American consumers on health and their perception of genetically modified organism (GMO) and the study on both fat and carbohydrate diets which is good for the heart.

The article offers information on olives are used for the production of olive oil, and the remainder are processed as table olives. Topics discussed include it gets mature in the summer and are harvested in the fall, largest producer and exporter of olives is Spain, contain a bitter water-soluble phenolic compound called oleuropein.

The article reports on the impact of lightweight ethylene raw materials on the synthetic rubber industry in China as of 2014. Topics discussed include the global trend of ethylene production from lightweight materials, the dependence of the synthetic rubber sector on ethylene cracking, and sustainability issues. A chart is also provided which depicts major downstream products of ethylene including butyl rubber and polyisobutylene, petroleum resin and curing agent, and phenol/acetone.

The article provides an outlook for the market for fiber-reinforced phenolics as of June 2013. It notes a market share in applications requiring stringent corrosion resistance or superior flame, smoke and toxicity (FST) properties, that has been secured gradually by many newer grades of phenolic, with emphasis on Celloband from BP Chemicals. Aram Mekjian of Mektech Composites Inc. cites two ways in which early phenolic composites could be processed, including injection molded in pellet form.

The article presents arguments over the safety of bisphenol A (BPA). It highlights the lack of initiative to make a decision on whether BPA should be freely used given mounting knowledge of its estrogen-mimicking properties and possible toxic effects. Consumer and environmental advocacy groups have invoked the precautionary principle while manufacturers and chemical industry groups have argued that BPA is safe. The article cites the role of scientists in quantifying the magnitude of the problem and letting consumers make their choices.

Reports on a robust international market demand for dihydroxybenzene, which includes three isomers of catechol, hydroquinone, and resorcinol. Producers include Rhodia, Eastman, Goodyear, Sumitomo Chemical, and Eni; Slow growth of dihydroxybenzene capacity in China.

Presents information on historical inventions, discoveries and events in machine design that happened from 1929 to 1999. Award received by Prince Louis de Broglie of France in 1929; Development of slug rejecters for vending machines in 1931; Application of phenolic plastics developed in 1934; Features of the electric milling machine developed by Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. in 1936.

A table is presented which provides information on the import and export of alcohols in China in August 2013, including phenols, pentaerythritol, and glycerol.

The article report that the European markets for phenol and by-product acetone are each experiencing an unusual period of tight supply owing to constraints on feedstocks propylene and cumene, combined with strong derivatives demand. It mentions that the market tightness could be exacerbated by maintenance turnarounds scheduled at two facilities in Europe; and the views of David Potter, executive director/ aromatics and fibers at IHS Markit, on it.

The article discusses the benefits of raspberry ketone (RK), an aromatic and phenolic compound which give, scent and flavor to raspberries, as a safe and effective weight loss supplement sold via Internet. Topics discussed include the inefficient and expensive when extracting the compound, the critical evaluation of RK such as its molecular structure and principal outcome measure of the compound such as prevention of weight gain.

The article offers information on the growing demand for the antioxidants in Asia. Topics discussed include need of antioxidants for fuel lubricant, plastics and rubber-processing industries; increase in the growth for rubbers and elastomers; and consumption of hindered phenols in China and increased demand for antioxidant in China.

This article reports that phenol prices in Asia have increased in February due to a reduction of import flows from the Middle East and the United States.

The article discusses the technique developed by Omar M. Yaghi, Seungkyu Lee, and Eugene A. Kapustin of University of California, Berkeley, as of late August 2016 to reliably examine the absolute stereochemistry of a molecule's structure. The method involves the use of aluminum atoms, which are covalently linked to the chiral framework called MOF-520. The method was successfully used in primary alcohols, phenols, vicinal diols, and carboxylic acids.

The article reports on the announcement by China's Ministry of Commerce that it has launched an antidumping investigation into phenol imports from the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and the U.S. It notes on the antidumping duties imposed by the ministry on phenol for two periods of five years ending in 2015. It cites the possible effect of the investigation on Chinese domestic phenol producers' plant operating rates.

The article offers information about the statement of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealing that a major preliminary report on the health impact of bisphenol A (BPA) supports its earlier determination that authorized application of BPA continues to be safe for consumers. Information about the Consortium Linking Academic and Regulatory Insights on BPA Toxicity core study is presented.

The article reports on how surgeons can deal with aesthetic complications in blepharoplasty, according to assistant ophthalmology professor Bobby S. Korn, M.D. Topics mentioned include extension of skin marking and incisions for patients with excessive lateral hooding, failure of many patients to realize that complications are expected, and techniques required for severe intraorbital hollowness.