The average price of butadiene in February rose 14% month on month to $2,007.50/mt FOB Korea amid tight availability and new downstream plants coming online. The first of about four butadiene rubber plants starting up in 2013 was ...
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Northwest Europe gasoline crack swaps fell sharply at Tuesday's European close following a drop in NYMEX RBOB futures. Platts assessed the March Eurobob crack swap at $13.50/barrel Tuesday, down from Monday's $14.70/b and the lowest since ...
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Toluene market showed signs of improvement in Europe in the week ending February 16, 2013. Market was dull since the start of this year. Prices were hovering around US$ 1290-1310/ton FOB Rotterdam in the initial days of January 2013. ...
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Asian butadiene prices hit a more than six month high Monday on tight availability amid the startup of new synthetic rubber plants in China and higher naphtha feedstock costs. Butadiene prices surged 44% from a 2012 low of $1,455/mt FOB ...
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The Northwest Europe MTBE factor, the relative price of MTBE to gasoline, fell Thursday to its lowest level since November 21, 2012 on weakened export demand and a switch in focus to non-oxygenated gasoline blends, according to industry ...
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European Toluene market had dull sentiments in the earlier days of this month. Upstream product prices remained unstable and market experts predicted sluggish downstream demand for the first quarter of the current year. However, ...
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The production margin for spot purified terephthalic acid hit a six-month high Wednesday following a sharp drop in feedstock paraxylene prices, but this still failed to lift the margin out of the red, Platts data showed. The PTA margin ...
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M-Xylene market showed downward trend in Asia while it was steady in Europe and US in week ending January 5. In Korea,M-Xylene trends went down,due to weak demand from the downstream market.In the early days of last week,prices were ...
Dr.Veysel Yayan,the Secretary General of Turkish Iron and Steel Producers Association has shared his views regarding the steel industry and the price trends in the market locally and globally. The high performance of Turkish steel ...
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Styrene monomer traders Thursday said they remained bullish about the outlook for SM in the first quarter of 2013 and expect prices to stay firm even after hitting new record highs on almost a daily basis in December and to date in January. ...
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Weekly oil data from the US Energy Information Administration and the American Petroleum Institute should show a 1 million-barrel draw in US commercial crude inventories for the week ending December 28, analysts polled by Platts said ...
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Germany's Oxea Chemicals has announced a Eur100/mt increase in normal butanol, isobutanol, normal butyl acetate, isobutyl acetate, normal butyraldehyde and isobutyraldehyde prices effective January 1 for Europe, Middle East and African ...
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With the rapid development of furniture industry in recent years, the competition in China furniture market has entered an ultra-competition state. So we should fully realize that our former success and effective strategy and means may not ...
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After a month long rally of 17%culminating in the highest level in the last 5 months the buck finally stopped on the eve of New Year in China.Propped on sound macro economic parameters steel production picked up.Steel consumption has shown ...
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The Kuala Lumpur Tin Market is expected to continue its upward momentum this week, supported by tight supply and strong demand from the Japanese and European buyers A dealer said that the metal's price may touch USD 23,500 per tonne ...
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