Brazil's pesticide imports fall 6.8% as growers shift to generics – Global Corporate News Digest, 8 Jul 2026

Geopolitics and supply-chain disruption

Ukrainian drones strike one of Russia's largest petrochemical plants

US resin prices climb as geopolitics reshapes plastics supply

Heurtey wins the furnace contract for a world-scale Mexican methanol plant

Electronics and battery-materials watch

China's Shengquan raises electronic-grade PPO resin prices by up to a fifth

Hungary orders a full shutdown of Semcorp's battery separator plant

Agrochemicals and crop-protection markets

Brazil's pesticide imports fall 6.8% as growers shift to generics

Tyres, materials and regulatory pressure

European tyre and silica producers push back on a silica classification