Styrolution Europe has raised operating rates at its acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene plant at Antwerp, Belgium to 80-85% capacity in June, a company source said Wednesday. The 250,000 mt/year ABS unit was running at 70-75% capacity in ...
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Northwest European acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene and polystyrene producers are raising their competitiveness in order to retain market share in the fast growing Turkish market, market sources said this week. European producers are ...
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An initial European monoethylene glycol May contract price was settled lower by Eur55/mt ($71/mt) to Eur965/mt FD NWE Thursday, industry sources said. The parties involved could not be immediately confirmed. The decrease was driven by ...
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The European monoethylene glycol May contract price was fully settled Thursday Eur965/mt ($1,252/mt) FD NWE, industry sources said Friday. It represents a fall of Eur55/mt from April The initial settlement was between Shell as a seller ...
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Plastics and rubber producer Styron Europe said Friday that it plans to roll over its monthly price for styrene butadiene latex in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India in June, in a bid to widen profit margins amid falling feedstock ...
LyondellBasell has settled its April Northwest European styrene monomer contract price at Eur1,413/metric ton ($1,837/mt) FCA Rotterdam, one of the company's customers confirmed Friday. LyondellBasell wasn't immediately available Friday ...
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The April European contract price for paraxylene has been fully settled at Eur1,120/mt ($1,467/mt) FD NWE, Eur130/mt lower than March's ECP, sources confirmed Thursday. The ECP was initially settled on Wednesday by seller Shell and buyer ...
European naphtha prices have come under pressure from run cuts in the polyolefin chain as well as falling crude prices, with ICE Brent futures sinking to an eight-month low Friday, sources said. CIF NWE naphtha was assessed at $846.50/mt ...
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An initial NWE contract for April-delivered butadiene was fully settled Tuesday at Eur1,415/mt FD NWE ($1,821/mt FD), following confirmation from four producers and two consumers involved in the negotiations. A spokesman for SABIC Europe ...
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European mixed xylene prices were under downward pressure from the sharp correction in Asian and US mixed xylenes prices. Market sources said European isomer-mixed xylenes were trading at $1,290/mt FOB ARA, down $10 from Platts' March 15 ...
Buyers of polyethylene terephthalate in Europe are reluctant to build inventories as they expect PET prices to decline in April, market sources said this week. These expectations are being driven by weaker upstream markets, as contract ...
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Uncertainty over feedstock prices is putting a block on upward momentum in the European polyethylene terephthalate market, market sources said. Prices have been marching upwards recently as producers pushed through higher feedstock prices ...
Global O-Xylene market showed downward trend in the week ending March 9, 2013. In Korea, O-Xylene prices went down last week, due to dull downstream buying sentiment in the region and lower downstream product prices. In the initial days ...
The Northwest European contract price for March-delivered butadiene was fully settled Tuesday at Eur1,415/mt FD NWE ($1,880/mt FD), following confirmation from two producers and two consumers involved in the negotiations. The increase ...
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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