The Specialty Chemicals Market Volume Index, a tool created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), continued the secondquarter of 2016 on a soft note, slipping 0.3 percent on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis in May. The trend has been choppy and May’s decline was preceded by a revised 0.5 percent decline in April and a 0.2 percent drop in March. Weakness in oilfield chemicals and mining chemicals has weighed on overall volumes. Of the twenty-eight specialty chemical segments we monito...