8Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a U.S. report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction"

8Input costs, which are essentially energy have gone up, even so soda ash prices have gone up faster because of robust demand
8This has buoyed profits

8GTC Vorro Technology (GTC Vorro), a turnkey provider of environmental services and process technologies to oil and gas, refining and petrochemical companies, is now offering BTX Gold solvents for petrochemical separations

8There is this big India International Trade Fair coming up
8It has an interesting theme this year

The government has decided to extend the enforcement date for quality control orders for a bunch of chemicals.
8There is a sigh of relief in the industry
8But in a few other chemicals, new quality control orders have been issued

8Get the latest production data on as many as 27 chemical products

8This chemical company has a Rs 3500 crore capex
8Find out what kind of progress it has made so far on this front

8Has Universal Polysack (India) Pvt Ltd fallen on difficult times?

Mirash Industries Pvt Ltd is a producer of various chlorine and benzene-based products.
8And the jury is still out on how the company is doing

8Get the latest rubber prices in Singapore

8Mitsui develops ultra-low weight robotic plastic material

8Tecnimont is involved in this waste-to-chemical technology

8Teijin Frontier, the Teijin Group’s fibers and products converting company, announced it will start production of polyester filaments at Teijin Polyester Ltd (TPL), Thailand division, this month

8PRefChem's polymer lines shut after the explosion at Malaysia's Pengerang Integrated Complex

Bright Brothers Ltd is a manufacturer of molded plastic products.
8But it has stopped cooperating with its rating agency

8Finolex Industries Ltd seems to have landed itself in a bit of a spot

IRPC Public Co. Ltd's petrochemical plant in Rayong, Thailand, is currently undergoing renovation and upgrading works to optimise its production processes.
8One of the most important upgrades is the replacement of its Deep Catalytic Cracking (DCC) cyclone reactor, which will allow the plant to exceed the production of 640 000 tpy of propylene produced

8One of the world's largest petrochemical companies claims its Q4 margins will be "under pressure" after drop in prices

8Air Liquide has thrown in a good performance

8Kerala is now doing its bit to bring in industrial investment

8Mitsui India is trying to go on a sustainability trip.
8How is it faring

8Japanese rubber futures fell, tracking losses in the Shanghai market and weighed down by weakness in domestic equities, as fresh Covid-19 curbs in various cities in top consumer China dented demand

8Sumitomo Rubber claims vulcanisation chemistry advance

8Persian Gulf states are stepping up efforts to address increasing problems around the management of end-of-life tires (ELTs) across the region, a Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) meeting has heard

8Finnish group selling Russian operations to Tatneft PJSC for around €400m