Middle East & Africa

BARCELONA (ICIS)–Softening chemicals demand and prices in China may be an early sign of trouble ahead for the global industry in 2021. High inventories, weaker demand for China chemicals Falling…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–Saudi Arabia will re-open its land and sea borders as well as its airspace to Qatar starting 4 January, a Kuwaiti senior government official said late on Monday. The announcement…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–The Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Company (SAFCO) on Sunday said that it has effected its name change to the SABIC Agri-Nutrients Co. The procedures to effect its name change in the…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

LONDON (ICIS)–The value of chemicals acquisitions have remained resilient through 2020 despite the economic collapse and the opacity of future demand, but players are tending to look towards…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–China’s petrochemical industry in 2021 will certainly see light at the end of the tunnel following a cataclysmic year with main drivers coming from growing demand in particular…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–Asia’s protracted supply constraints for ethylene dichloride (EDC) may persist for the near-term, but deep-sea availability may increase from Q1 2021 if producers’ chlor-alkali…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

NEW YORK (ICIS)–The chemicals mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market is poised for a major rebound in 2021 following a pandemic-hindered 2020 as business confidence returns and central banks…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

BARCELONA (ICIS)–UK logistics at border crossings into the EU are under intense pressure as companies try to build stockpiles ahead of the country’s 31 December exit from the EU single market and…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

NEW YORK (ICIS)–As we say goodbye, or good riddance to 2020, one key positive development for the chemicals industry is the sharpening focus on ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) – a trend…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

NEW YORK (ICIS)–Dow Chairman and CEO Jim Fitterling is No 1 among the 2020 ICIS Top 40 Power Players, a global ranking of the leading CEOs and senior executives making the greatest positive impact…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east