LLDPE

UK opens anti-dumping probe into US LLDPE after Ineos complaint / Does this mean oversupply for the EU?

PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS

Butadiene: Force majeure at MOL confirmed

INEOS STYROLUTION

PS follows fall in prices of feedstocks

POLYURETHANE

Polyether polyols: EU launches anti-dumping investigation into imports from China

EPOXY RESIN

Yulin Energy's large-scale plant causes further shifts in global market / Coal and methanol as feedstocks / Significant overcapacity in China

PET

No EU anti-dumping duties on imports from Vietnam

PVC RECYCLING EUROPE

Volumes rise 5.7% in 2025 despite overall drop in plastics reclaim capacity – VinylPlus report

PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS

Polyester value chain: Orlen reportedly hit by PTA production issues at Wloclawek

BUTANEDIOL

Definitive anti-dumping duties imposed on Chinese, Saudi, US imports / EU confirms provisional rates

POLYPROPYLENE

Indonesia plans to impose anti-dumping duties on PP homopolymers from Asia and Middle East / More imports to Europe possible

PLASTICS RECYCLING GERMANY

How can a functioning recyclate market be established? / Wuppertal Institute study analyses current situation, outlines ways forward / “Plastics as a service”

PLASTICS RECYCLING GERMANY

Share of recyclate up slightly, production and processing in decline in 2024 / Industry association publishes Circular Economy for Plastics country report

AROMATIC COPOLYESTERS

EU Commission opens anti-dumping probe into Chinese imports

RECYCLING USA

Beyond Plastics challenges claims by Starbucks that its single-use PP cups are recyclable / Drop 'deceptive' advertising and just use less plastic, NGO tells coffee chain

TRINSEO

Another price increase for polystyrene

KURARAY

Elastomers set to become significantly more expensive

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY GERMANY

VCI quarterly report: Polymer sales, production edge up / Association sees ‘panic-driven temporary spike' / No 2026 forecast yet

BELARUS

Mozyr propylene project advances / Domestic petchem industry performance rises in 2025 / Experts see challenges as sector targets new export markets

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Europe's circularity gains mask industrial weakness / Plastics Europe warns of risk of circularity shifting abroad / Circularity repositioned as key to industrial survival

CELANESE

Price hikes planned for several grades