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Often overlooked as a byproduct, sulfur is a strategic commodity linking refining, fertilizers, mining, and battery materials. Explores 2026 market volatility, North America’s role in global supply, and implications for food security, trade flows, and supply‑chain resilience.
This issue examines how falling crude, gas, coal and naphtha costs interacted with outages and weak demand to produce mixed margin outcomes across the value chain. Olefins margins diverged, while PE, PP and MEG margins mostly softened across regions.
This issue examines how supply shocks are disrupting energy and petrochemical markets, driving price volatility, shifting trade flows, and stressing supply chains, with implications for refining, chemicals, energy security, and industrial market dynamics.
This issue examines how supply tightness and Middle East disruptions sustained higher crude, naphtha, and olefins prices, lifting margins across ethylene, propylene, PE, MEG, and PP, with some variability across regions and production routes.
This issue explores how the Middle East conflict is driving supply disruptions, higher prices, and shifting trade flows across energy and petrochemical markets. It highlights impacts on refining, chemicals, logistics, and energy security, alongside evolving transition and investment dynamics.
China’s trade position is evolving—not collapsing—by reducing reliance on key inputs while expanding exports of semi‑finished and finished goods. Highlights shifting import dependencies across energy, minerals, and chemicals, and what it means for resource suppliers.
This issue examines how severe Middle East disruptions triggered record crude and feedstock prices, driving sharp olefins and polymers price increases while creating uneven margin outcomes across regions and production routes.
This issue examines how the Middle East conflict is disrupting energy, chemical, and materials markets globally. It highlights supply chain stress, demand destruction, shifting trade flows, and resilience strategies, alongside implications for petrochemicals, batteries, and the energy transition.
Battery separator demand is accelerating as safety standards tighten, advanced coatings emerge, and regional supply chains scale to support global growth in electric mobility and energy storage.
Where will manufacturing talent come from as reshoring accelerates? This note explains how wages, labor pool shifts, automation, and AI change the equation—and why sectors like chemicals and metals may need to compete harder for skilled workers as capacity utilization rises