According to a new market report "Petrochemicals Market by Product (Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Benzene, Xylene, Toluene, Vinyls, Styrene and Methanol) -Global and China Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 ...
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The US spot ethylene market was at a standstill Thursday on news of an explosion and fire at Williams' olefins complex in Louisiana that killed one person earlier in the day, market sources said. Sellers pulled all material Thursday ...
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European naphtha crack futures reached a three-month high Tuesday amid talk of short covering and a potential uptick in demand from petrochemicals end-users, market participants said. The June CIF Northwest Europe naphtha crack spread -- ...
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European ethylene and propylene supply has tightened amid a spate of production issues, though the impact of this on spot prices is being moderated by poor derivatives demand, according to industry sources. Availability to the market had ...
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US steam cracker margins climbed week-on-week as ethylene prices reacted to the news of planned and unplanned outages in the US Gulf Coast region. ExxonMobil suffered an upset at its Baytown, Texas, olefins plant Tuesday. Westlake ...
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Paraxylene (PX) prices went down in the Asian market. In S E Asian region, PX prices declined in the range of US$ 1515/ton to US$ 1520/ton. In F E Asian market, PX prices were offered at US$ 1500/ton. PX imported from Taiwanese market ...
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American PVC prices are moving south in major global markets including Turkey, Italy and Egypt while import prices for this origin were also moving down in China’s PVC market prior to the one week long National holiday in the country ...
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In the past few days the sentiment on the sellers' side has begun to firm up in Italy's local PE market as per the plastics pricing service ChemOrbis. Following the earlier price cuts, some traders in Italy are now revising their prices ...