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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Styrolution Europe has nominated a Eur25/mt increase in its polystyrene contract price for June from May, the company said Tuesday. The company did not provide an outright value for its contracts but added that the premium of its high ...
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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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The Mediterranean gasoline cargo market has switched from a $19.75/mt discount under the Northwest European Eurobob market to a premium of $10.75/mt in two weeks, on limited supply, market sources said. "The Med is totally dry...the arbs ...
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The Northwest European Urals differential has moved to a premium to the lighter Forties crude grade for the first time in nine months, as supplies of the Russian sour crude tighten and demand for the North Sea grade slackens, market sources ...
Sweet North Sea crude values have begun rebounding as European crude oil traders begin to take note of improving sweet refining margins, the first time in over a month that sweet margins have performed better than sour, traders said Monday. ...
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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 ...
Gasoline stocks in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp region fell 15.9% week on week in the seven days to May 16, according to a report by BNP Paribas released Friday. Stocks fell by 1.5 million barrels to 7.8 million barrels, and were 3.2% ...
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The Mediterranean gasoline cargo market has strengthened to a $8.50/mt discount to the Northwest European Eurobob barge market, the narrowest discount since March 22, Platts data shows, following demand into North Africa and potential flows ...
The Northwest European styrene monomer benchmark has climber $137.50/mt or 8.9% from a year-to-date low of $1,537.50/mt on April 22 to $1,675/mt FOB ARA Tuesday, Platts data showed. The rally was due to a combination of increasing demand ...
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The June Northwest European-US Atlantic arbitrage swap has risen since market close Friday due to a higher NYMEX RBOB market, increasing the possibility of exports from Europe heading to the Atlantic coast, market sources said Monday. ...
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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 ...