8The tight supply–demand balance for polyamide (PA) 66 and PA6T continues to drag on
8With inventories having been wound down in the first half of 2020 due to the pandemic, supply was left unable to keep pace when economic recovery brought a sudden rally in demand

8Pakistan is looking at big investments in the petrochemical sector

8Haldor Topsoe and Dow are in a new collaboration for a circular plant
8They are going to scale up lab-scale technology for this
8Meanwhile, Topsoe has out a demonstration plant into operation for production of sustainable Methanol from biogas

8What are the key principles and features of India’s cosmetic regulations?
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8Get the chemical export and import performance for April-August, 2021

8Plastiblends India posts higher topline
8But profits though higher remains in a squeeze

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8Viscose Staple Fibre

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8Wintry Engineering And Chemicals is a processed fabric manufacturer
8COVID has had an impact

8Ishan Dyes and Chemicals is a small company
8But things are looking up

8JBF Industries Ltd has announced a revision in its PET resin prices

India imports a wide variety of chemicals
8From paraxylene to acetic acid to benzene to butadiene to methanol to sulphuric acid to hexane to base oil to caustic soda to styrene monomer to ethanol
8And as of today evening we are tracking 1.04 million MT of chemical imports

8Many base oil imports are taking place at quite a few ports
8Check out how many cargoes are coming in and what the volumes are

8A shipment of mixed xylene is coming from Rayong
8The 1000 tonne cargo is expected to land at Ennore

8A two-company combine is jointly importing a LAB cargo
8Find out who these companies are

8OMPL is shipping in a benzene cargo
8Find out where this 15000 tonne cargo is going to land

The international crude oil price of Indian Basket was quoted at around $83.51 per barrel on October 18, 2021 This was higher than the price of $81.88 per barrel on October 16, 2021.

On October 18, 2021 naphtha prices were registered to move up in Japan and Europe on account of positive buying trends in the respective countries.

8There are several cargoes of phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid coming in
8Almost all of these imports are by fertilizer companies

8Ahuge CBFS cargo is being imported by Birla Carbon
8Find out the cargo weight

8An MMA cargo is berthing at Mumbai
8It is a very small cargo of 942 tonnes

8A molasses cargo is berthing at Jaigad
8It is a huge cargo of around 46000 tonnes

8The website is tracking 7 million tonnes of crude imports into India as of the moment at different arrival ports
8Where is this crude coming from?
8Who is importing them and in what quantities?

8GAIL is bringing in three LNG cargoes via Dabhol
8IOCL's LNG cargo berthing at Dahej
8Arcelor Mittal's full LNG cargo coming from Bonny is arriving on October 29

8We are currently tracking around 1.1 million tonnes of fertilizer imports
8And this is as of today's evening data
8Get our comprehensive data sheet on fertilizer imports coming up ahead