Paint & Coating News

PPG's acquisition of alpha, a light industrial powder coating manufacturer, on February 5, PPG announced that it had reached a final agreement to acquire alpha coating technologies.

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Aromatics are the important foundation of chemical industry, widely used in three major synthetic materials, medicine, national defense, pesticide, building materials and other fields.

• Chemical

In 2019, the comprehensive output of 41 national titanium dioxide enterprises with normal production conditions reached 3.18 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 7.69%.

• coating

This week PTA shock is strong. The impact of the new crown epidemic continued, and the terminal recovery was still slow.

• PTA

Recently, Huntsman announced that it will raise the price of solid liquid epoxy resin in the Americas from March 1 this year, with a rise of US $0.1 per pound, equivalent to 1548 CNY/ton.

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Jacobs summarizes three main trends: ① the growing demand of the public (including policies) for more environmentally friendly and green furniture drives enterprises to turn to more sustainable solutions.

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The novel coronavirus pneumonia continues to ferment during the Spring Festival. While the whole country is actively fighting epidemics, the delay of the reemployment brought by the epidemic prevention and control.

• industry

Recently, some foreign oil and chemical giants have announced their performance in 2019. The overall economic and industrial situation has impacted the entire petrochemical industry.

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Although China is short of petroleum resources, it is necessary to develop coal chemical industry, which is a technology and capital intensive industry, involving a wide range, complex engineering construction and difficult to implement.

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• carbide

At present, there is a good opportunity for product sales. Although it coincides with the hot days and the high temperature and dust in the production site.

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• carbide

Many entity enterprises have been hindered from returning to work and their development has been affected to a certain extent.

• industry

The methanol market is partially up, and some are waiting to see.

• methanol

Yesterday, the domestic toluene market was reorganized, with the main factory quotation mainly stable.

• toluene

Yesterday, the domestic market for pure benzene remained stable, with the price of the external market mainly rising.

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• benzene

Yesterday, domestic DOP market offers increased, the terminal has not yet fully returned to work.

• DOP

Yesterday, the domestic phthalic anhydride market trading was light, and the downstream demand did not improve substantially.

• Phthalic
• anhydride

Yesterday, the domestic styrene market recovered. At present, the market demand and transportation are gradually recovering.

• styrene

Yesterday, the focus of domestic acetone market was weak, supply was too much, shipment was not smooth.

• acetone

Yesterday, the focus of domestic phenol market fell, the enthusiasm of downstream buying was not high.

• phenol

Last week, the domestic methanol market was shaken.

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