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REACH
1 min read
Oct 2026

The REACH paperwork that actually matters — and the kind that just looks reassuring

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.

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Sourcing
1 min read
Oct 2026

Capacity, not price, is the real question when you add a Gulf supplier

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.

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Market analysis
1 min read
Oct 2026

Asia–Europe freight rates are flattening again — what that actually means for sourcing

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.

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Market analysis
1 min read
Sep 2026

Sample article: how a product sheet like this is meant to read

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.

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Market analysis
2 min read
Sep 2026

Anti-dumping duty on Chinese PBTC for water treatment chemicals now reaches up to 192 percent and the Commission’s case file delivers the market figures along with it

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.

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Market analysis
2 min read
Sep 2026

Buying citric acid from China gets harder to price for Europe, as Brussels has been reviewing the level of its anti-dumping duties since 14 September

Citric acid and trisodium citrate dihydrate from China have been subject to an EU anti-dumping duty since 2008.

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Market analysis
2 min read
Sep 2026

Sourcing chemicals in Asia after a week of Coaching Asia means knowing China’s calendar and the structures behind a producer

Every morning, I use my Coaching Asia to look at what is moving in Asia and the Middle East and what it could mean for sourcing in Europe.

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Sourcing
2 min read
Sep 2026

Sourcing chemicals in Korea: who is actually selling and why the first email so often reaches nobody

Anyone sending a first enquiry to Korea tends to make the same experience I did. The enquiry does not fail on price, it lands with the wrong company.

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Asia Chemical Network Advisory & Development Board — seeking support and shared leadership
Network
1 min read
Sep 2026

I want to further develop the Asia Chemical Network, but not alone

In June, we brought together more than 120 people from the chemical industry in Hamburg. It showed that many people in our industry are interested in open and personal exchange.

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Market analysis
1 min read
Sep 2026

EU anti-dumping duties are quietly reshaping which Asian chemicals move west

A fresh anti-dumping measure rarely closes a trade lane outright — it just changes who can still afford to use it, and that's the part worth watching.

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Market analysis
1 min read
Sep 2026

What happens when a producer in Asia loses its most important sales market?

In discussions with chemical producers in China and India, I am almost always shown the same figures: capacity, utilisation and price. But they only show me the production side.

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Sourcing
1 min read
Aug 2026

Why more chemical suppliers from the Gulf are looking to Europe

Gulf producers are no longer just exporting on price. Here's what's actually changing, and what it means for buyers used to sourcing from Asia.

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REACH
1 min read
Aug 2026

What REACH actually requires before you can sell into Europe

For a first-time exporter from China, the Gulf or elsewhere, REACH is usually the first real gate into the European market — here’s what it actually involves.

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