1. Air Products Signs Contract with China's Best Solar

     China's Best Solar Hi Tech Co., Ltd. is building a new thin-film photovoltaic (PV) facility in the Wuzhong Economic Development Park in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, eastern China. Gases needed in facility will be supplied by Air Products. Both sides have signed a turnkey gas supply contract on a long-term supply of hydrogen, nitrogen and argon, and specialty gases such as silane, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and dopant gases. Air Products will also install and manage the bulk gas and specialty gas supply systems.

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2. Yuntianhua International Suffers High Phosphate Fertilizer Stocks and Plunging Sulfur Prices

      Operation in Yunnan Yuntianhua International Chemical Company Ltd.'s Furui subsidiary, located in Anning county, Yunnan province, has been irregular recently. The once busy packaging line now was suspended, with packaged phosphate fertilizer products piled up high in and outside the warehouses.

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3. Demand Increase of Plant Growth Regulators

       Plant growth regulator is a class of substances that are produced through methods such as chemical synthesis or fermentation and have physiological and biochemical effects similar to natural plant hormones. The "Regulations on the Administration of Pesticides" issued by China in 1997 exercises the centralized administration of plant growth regulators as pesticides. Over 100 varieties of plant growth regulators exist in the world today in the categories of plant growth promotion and plant growth inhibition. China has more than 40 registered plant growth regulators and over 700 products, accounting for 2.54% of the total registered pesticides.

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4. Sinochem Tianjin Set up Dyestuff Chemical Lab Partnering with SYRICI

       Sinochem Tianjin, under Sinochem Corporation, has established a Dyestuff Chemical Lab in Shenyang partnering with Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry (SYRICI) which has been acquired by Sinochem Corporation, according to Sinochem Corporation's website on November 10th.

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5. China Starts Dumping Investigation on PA 6,6 Chips

     On November 14th, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced a dumping investigation on polyamide (PA) 6,6 chip (HS code: 39081011 ) originated from the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, France and Taiwan province.

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