US-based Hangar 24 Craft Brewery has introduced new beers to its Barrel Roll Series and Local Fields Series. Kirschen is the newest beer of Local Fields Series, which is brewed with California Bing Cherries and contains 3.9% ABV, as well ...
Tags: Hangar 24 Craft Brewery, Beers, Barrel Roll Series, Local Fields Series
The price spread in Asia between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene soared to an all-time high of $437/mt Monday, as SM prices jumped on tight supply, Platts data showed. SM was assessed at $1,718/mt FOB Korea Monday, up ...
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Taiwan's Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co is considering to set up an integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Pengerang in the state of Johor in Malaysia, rivaling state-owned Petronas' Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated ...
The price spread between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene was pegged at $391.50/mt Thursday morning, its widest point in more than four years, as SM remains firm after an unexpected shutdown by South Korean producer Lotte ...
Tags: styrene monomer, SM-Benzene Price
OCI Company Ltd has planned to undertake a maintenance turnaround at its aromatics plant in the fourth quarter of 2013. "We will undertake a turnaround at our aromatics plant located at Gwangyang in October 2013 and the plant will stay ...
Tags: Textile
ExxonMobil’s Singapore Chemical Plant is now producing ethylene from the facility’s second world-scale steam cracker. The expansion is integrated with the existing petrochemical plant. Over the next few weeks, the ...
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The ratio of the Gulf Coast normal butane assessment to the front-month NYMEX crude contract is at 57.9% Friday morning, the lowest level since late 2008, Platts data showed, in part due to the deployment summer gasoline specs. The ratio, ...
Tags: USGC, normal butane prices
European benzene's premium to naphtha has topped the $450/mt mark for the first time since the start of February, as naphtha languishes at multi-month lows and benzene rises despite seemingly weak fundamentals. The benzene-naphtha spread ...
Tags: NWE, Benzene-Naphtha, Chemicals
Fixtures for shipments of more than 190,000 mt of heavy naphtha bound for Asia from the US Gulf Coast show that the arbitrage window has reopened to meet firm demand from Asia, trade and shipping sources said Friday. It marks the second ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, gasoline market
After hitting an eight-month low on March 28, Asian isomer-grade mixed xylenes have seen a marked rebound as bargain hunters returned to the market and the downstream paraxylene sector showed signs of rising demand. From $1,119.50/mt FOB ...
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UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that its technology has been selected to produce key petrochemicals in a new complex in Brunei. Brunei Hengyi Industries Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of China's Zhejiang Hengyi Group Co., will use several ...
Tags: aromatics, Brunei Petrochemical
Saudi Arabian customs officials have foiled an attempt to smuggle 3.255 million kg (equivalent to 27,300 barrels) of refined oil products out of the eastern port of Dammam, capital of the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province, the official ...
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Taiwan-based Formosa Chemical and Fibre Corp (FCFC) plans to undertake maintenance turnaround at its line No.1 of its aromatics plant in March 2013. “The line No.1 of our aromatics plant will undergo a scheduled maintenance ...
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Ulsan Aromatics, a joint venture between South Korea’s SK Global Chemical and Japan’s JX Nippon Oil and Energy has planned to build a new Paraxylene (PX) plant in Ulsan, South Korea. A SK Global Chemical company official ...
Idemitsu Kosan is operating the Xylene and benzene lines at its two aromatic plants at 100 percent capacity rates mainly due to high margins in the spot market. “The Xylene and benzene lines in the aromatics plants in Chiba and ...
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