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The article discusses the concept of Responsible Care in the chemical industry, which focuses on operational excellence, safety, and sustainability. The industry is leveraging AI tools to improve safety performance, and the ACC has released its first sustainability report and undergone a rebranding to enhance community education and engagement. The article highlights the industry's commitment to safety and sustainability, as well as the importance of chemistry in creating a greener economy. The ACC is also focusing on talent development and engaging with communities to promote the industry's positive impact. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the cleaner chemistry sector, highlighting the importance of innovative ingredients in meeting demands for sustainability and performance gains in cleaning products. Suppliers emphasize the need for new chemistries to deliver significant sustainability benefits and differentiated performance amid subdued market dynamics and consumer behavior changes.

The article focuses on the challenges and opportunities in the semiconductor industry, emphasizing the uneven recovery of semiconductor demand and the significant investments required by electronic chemicals suppliers to meet the needs of new chip architectures and support reshoring efforts. It highlights how the expected growth of the semiconductor market, driven by AI (artificial intelligence) applications and geopolitical shifts, is influencing suppliers and policy makers.

The article offers information on the chemical industry's efforts to address climate change through innovations in feedstocks and carbon-mitigation measures. Topics include the industry's historical innovations, the role of alternative feedstocks like sugar, cellulose, and CO2, and the need for carbon-neutral or net-zero goals.

Global consumption of detergents is expected to grow at or around GDP in 2012, producers say. The key developing regions of China, Eastern Europe, and India are expected to continue [...]

Several quarters of strong earnings growth have made Eastman Chemical one of industry's strongest stock performers coming out of the recession, but executives say there is much more to the [...]

After thriving on low-cost access to ethane, Canada's chemical industry in recent years has been struggling with declining supply. Burdensome regulations and economic turmoil dampened expansion hopes once fueled by [...]

Interest in producing fuels and chemicals from renewable raw materials is at a fever pitch. Better microorganisms and advances in process development have brought the cost of several platforms down [...]

Emerging markets are shaping post-recession refinery market demand for oil products, as traditional markets, namely U.S. and Western Europe, see increasing fuel efficiency standards and high prices wipe out growth, [...]

Shifting consumer desires and market forces are challenging the soap and detergents industry to deliver more effective and greener products, and chemical suppliers continue to introduce new chemistries to support [...]

The promise of producing chemicals from renewable feedstocks is becoming a reality thanks to advances in metabolic engineering and process development. Several biobased plastics are already being produced at commercial [...]

Western Canada's petrochemical makers have historically enjoyed a low-cost position thanks to an abundance of cheap ethane in the Alberta province. Changing natural gas border flows are threatening feedstock competitiveness, [...]

Water treatment firms say increased concerns about water scarcity and quality will drive healthy global demand in coming years. Executives expect high growth in Asia, especially in China, as urbanization [...]

Canadian chemical producers, struggling with a devastating slump in demand in 2009, have an even longer walk out of the desert that their U.S. counterparts thanks to the tendency of [...]

Petrochemical projects in Asia and the Mideast have kept major engineering and construction (E&C) firms busy through the recession, but much of that activity is expected to come to a [...]

Soap and detergent makers remember 2008 as a year of considerable uncertainty as upstream costs left margins in disarray up and down the supply chain. Formulators and suppliers are no [...]

Economic jitters and its effects on consumer spending have plastics producers revising demand forecasts downward and looking for ways to cut costs. Some producers are also pressured by capacity coming [...]

Canadian chemical producers say they are bracing for a sharp drop in profitability this year amid fluctuating energy prices, a slow economy, and a rapid increase in the Canadian-U.S. dollar [...]

Massive capacity additions, mainly in the Mideast as well as Asia/Pacific, are expected to drive industry operating rates lower and depress petrochemical margins by next year, analysts say. Mideast capacity [...]

The article focuses on the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting & Industry Convention, highlighting the resilience and energy within the cleaning products industry as it emerges from post-COVID challenges, with a renewed focus on sustainability and performance benefits. Discussions at the convention revolved around innovative chemistry, collaboration, and the potential of AI to drive competitive advantages.

The article focuses on the addition of sustainability metrics to the Responsible Care program, its role as the industry's operational ethos for environmental, health, and safety, and the efforts to establish a clear definition of sustainable chemistry. The topics include the expansion of Responsible Care to include sustainability, the challenges and opportunities in measuring and defining sustainable chemistry, and the industry's commitment to promoting safety and sustainability.

Global adhesives and sealants producers are mostly optimistic about market conditions for the rest of this year, taking into account a continuing rise in raw material costs. Several producers have [...]

The article discusses the COP28 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates in December 2023. Topics include the record number of attendees at the conference, comments from Pascal Chalvon Demersey, chief sustainability and government affairs officer at Solvay, and expectations of chemical makers on the meeting at COP28.

Refinery and automotive catalyst makers are looking forward to returning to business as usual after last year's severe drops in refinery run rates and automotive production levels. Executives say they [...]

The upcoming US presidential election will have significant implications for chemicals regulation and climate policy. The two candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, have diverging philosophies on these issues. Under Biden, climate action has accelerated, and the EPA has prioritized chemicals regulation and the implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act. However, the American Chemistry Council has criticized Biden's EPA for missed deadlines and overreach. If Trump were to win a second term, there would likely be significant structural changes across the EPA and a different approach to chemicals regulation and climate policy. [Extracted from the article]

The market for polysilicon and other advanced chemicals and materials used in photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and modules is contracting, largely due to the recession. Firms that make solar modules [...]

Strong demand for catalysts that improve processes and enable cost-competitive production is driving suppliers, including BASF, Sud-Chemie, and UOP, to make major R&D investments. That demand is also being fueled [...]

The volatility of oil-based petrochemical prices, which constrained margins and crippled industry earnings last year, forced chemical producers to take a closer look at diversifying their feedstock base. Many firms [...]

An unprecedented run-up in feedstock and energy costs coupled with a worsening global economic slowdown, has dogged the European petrochemical industry in what should have been its last good year [...]

Rising gasoline prices and green-conscious consumers have forced the global automotive industry to rethink its power train, setting the stage for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to emerge as the enabling technology [...]

Pricing pressures, caused mainly by steep rises in costs of energy, transportation, and raw materials, continue to plague the soaps and detergents industry, prompting raw material suppliers to work more [...]

Robust global demand is driving most commodity polymer producers--particularly polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC)--to expand. The year has been especially good for PE and PP producers, which [...]

Synopsis on Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, which was organized in Orlando, is presented. Companies such as Dionex unveiled high performance liquid chromatography systems.

The article reports on the cleaning products sector aiming to boost sales in 2023 despite gloomy economic forecasts, with a focus on disinfection and sustainability.It also mentions that brands are seeking to balance inflation and potential demand destruction, with chemical innovations that offer performance, convenience, and sustainability driving the trend and the shift towards e-commerce in the cleaning products industry making products more widely available to consumers.

The article focuses on the significant implications the upcoming US presidential election will have on chemicals regulation, trade, and climate policy. Topics include the contrasting regulatory approaches under Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the impact on the EPA and climate policy, and the challenges facing the chemical industry related to chemicals safety regulations and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).