Bunker fuel costs jump 25–30% in a week: Brazil's chemical importers know the bill is coming. – Petrochemical Industry Watch, 13 Mar 2026

Geopolitical tailwinds could lift Reliance's oil-to-chemicals EBITDA by 8.5%, but one policy risk could cap the gains.

India diverts all C3/C4 streams to ease LPG crisis: polypropylene producers are next to feel the squeeze.

Evonik and IMCD take their methacrylates partnership to the US, the third country in a quietly expanding alliance.

Brenntag posts €15.2bn in sales as markets slump and hunts acquisitions while rivals are on the back foot.

K+S eyes potash demand growth in 2026, but a €1bn writedown and Middle East uncertainty cloud the outlook.

South Korea's Hanwha targets green ship retrofit boom with Italian classification partner RINA.

Fire breaks out at LyondellBasell's Texas plant: the world's largest propylene oxide site by production volume.

Bunker fuel costs jump 25–30% in a week: Brazil's chemical importers know the bill is coming.

Syngenta shuts its only paraquat plant in Huddersfield, beaten out by 750 generic rivals for less than 1% of global sales.

Plastic waste to virgin-grade feedstock in a single reactor: Clariant's pyrolysis oil breakthrough clears the industrial hurdle.

China's teapot refiners are running at 105% capacity on cheap pre-war crude, but the clock is ticking.

Hyspec Chemicals signs Gujarat MoU to make semiconductor-grade chemicals: staking India's chip ambitions on ultra-high-purity supply.

'Operation White Hammer' uncovers Andhra Pradesh drug lab disguised as a chemical plant: Rs.47 crore of alprazolam seized.

Seven dead in Bhiwadi factory fire: opposition says it's the latest in a pattern the government refuses to fix.

Sekisui raises polyvinyl alcohol prices from April 1: customers have weeks to lock in contracts before the increase bites.

War in West Asia pushes plastic goods up 30–40% in India: traders in Saharanpur say they're afraid to buy stock.

PET bottle prices jump 40% in 12 days as summer approaches: Gujarat's 10,000-unit plastic sector faces a supply crunch.

Avro India launches a Rs.50,000 crore plastic recycling mission, with a mobile app, 5 lakh volunteers and a furniture maker at the helm.

West Asia conflict squeezes synthetic rubber margins: manufacturers may be forced back to natural rubber.

China hits Indian, Japanese and Canadian rubber exporters with up to 30.1% anti-dumping duties, effective tomorrow.