Direct sourcing, supplier development and REACH practice across China, India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Built on thirty years of relationships, not out of a textbook.
Sourcing, REACH, capacities and prices, and how producers in Asia and the Gulf actually reach buyers, distributors and end users in Europe.
A REACH registration number on a datasheet isn't proof of much on its own. Here's what it's worth actually asking to see before you treat it as compliance confirmation.
A competitive quote from a Gulf producer is easy to find. Knowing whether they can actually hold that volume for two years is the harder, more useful question.
Spot rates easing back doesn't undo the last few years of supplier diversification — and buyers who assume it does are about to make a lazy mistake.
Placeholder text, a cover image and a data table together, built to the same shape as the BDO product sheet shared in the handover — for review before real figures go in.
In my weekly round through Asia it was India's turn this week, and five findings show why I need this.
Since 22 September 2026, a definitive anti-dumping duty has applied to 2-phosphonobutane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid and its sodium salt from China, known in the trade as PBTC.
For anyone in China following the European chemical industry, a section in Chinese explains how this market really works, and how I help companies get seen in Europe.
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