The US chemical industry is riding a global wave of growth as the world’s major economies experience an upswing for the first time in a decade. Increased output and accelerating growth rates that surpass the previous 20-year average will help cement the business of American chemistry as $1 trillion industry within the next five years, according to the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) “Year End 2017 Chemical Industry Situation and Outlook.” Despite disruptions from this year’s historic Hurrican...