American steel wire producers have postponed their price increases due to Christmas. However, they are going to hike the price by around US$11/ton after reopening steel market. The US producers expect the price of order could soar up by ...
Tags: Steel Wire, Mineral
Why did the significant growth observed in Turkish steel output following the 2008 economic crisis start to be replaced by reduced outputs this year? Will this declining trend in output slow down in the remainder of the year? After 2008, ...
Tags: Steel Output, Finished Steel
DAK Americas plans to raise September prices for all grades of polyethylene terephthalate by 3 cents/lb, according to a letter sent to customers on Friday. "The announcement is necessary due to upward pressure on the price of raw ...
The Stainless Steel Tube Trade Advancement Committee (SSTTAC) said Wednesday that it has completed market research of Chinese trade practices in selling seamless stainless steel pipe and tube in the US market and the data confirms ...
Tags: Chinese Mills, Stainless Pipe
July contract prices for US polyethylene terephthalate are likely to fall, a producer sources said Wednesday, predicting that lower feedstock prices could lead to a 1 cent/lb drop from June levels. US PET June contracts were assessed at ...
Tags: pet, Pet Contract, polyethylene terephthalate, Chemicals
July contract prices for US polyethylene terephthalate are likely to fall, a producer sources said Wednesday, predicting that lower feedstock prices could lead to a 1 cent/lb drop from June levels. US PET June contracts were assessed at ...
Tags: Feedstocks, Pet Contract Prices
The US styrene-to-benzene spread has widened $34.66/mt since June 24, growing to its highest level in more than 4 1/2 years at $424.56/mt Monday, according to Platts data. US spot styrene rose 0.90 cent/lb ($19.84/mt) day on day to a ...
Tags: Styrene-Benzene, Chemicals
The US industry--consisting of United States Steel Corporation, Maverick Tube Corporation, Boomerang Tube, Energex Tube (a division of JMC Steel Group), Northwest Pipe Company, Tejas Tubular Products, TMK IPSCO, Vallourec Star L.P., and ...
Tags: Steel, Pipe, Tubular Products
Total capital spending in 2012 for the top 100 US producers, including acquisitions, rose 18% year over year to the highest level on record at $316.6 billion, driven by development capital spending of a combined $208 billion, according to a ...
The US styrene to benzene spread remained above $300/mt for much of the last week, with the spread at $303.66/mt Monday, according to Platts data. US spot styrene lowered 0.05 cent/lb ($1.10/mt) day on day to a Monday assessment at 72.50 ...
Tags: Styrene-Benzene, Chemicals
Owing to recovery in demand from the US market, India’s handicraft exports surged 13 percent to US$ 256.8 million in April this year, as against April 2012’s US$ 227.16 million, Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) ...
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MEGlobal set its June North American Benchmark price for monoethylene glycol at 63 cents/lb, a rollover from May, a company source said Friday. Market players said Friday there was also talk that other US producers could keep prices flat ...
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On Thursday, a coalition of US stainless steel pipe producers--Bristol Metals, LLC; Felker Brothers Corp.; and Outokumpu Stainless Pipe, Inc.--filed an antidumping (AD) petition against welded austenitic stainless steel pressure pipe from ...
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The Peruvian polyvinyl chloride market flipped into backwardation for April as buyers took long positions in anticipation of lengthening supply in second-quarter 2013, sources said Thursday. "Consumers are buying only the minimum amount ...
Tags: PVC Dips, Seasonal Demand, Peruvian
US fuel oil exports to the Netherlands, Europe's primary demand hub, were the second-highest on record for 2012 but slowed in the latter part of the year, according to US data, signaling a shifting dynamic as domestic demand for the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, high sulfur fuel oil