China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has slashed its ex-works prices for butadiene by 16% effective late Monday, its second cut this month, end-users said Tuesday. With the latest reduction, Sinopec's subsidiaries in East, North ...
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According to a new market report "Petrochemicals Market by Product (Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Benzene, Xylene, Toluene, Vinyls, Styrene and Methanol) -Global and China Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 ...
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BASF will increase its global capacities for producing the chemical intermediate 1,4?butanediol (BDO) and the BDO derivative PolyTHF (chemical name: polytetramethylene ether glycol, PTMEG) within the coming two years. BASF's annual BDO ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, slashed its ex-works prices for styrene-butadiene rubber by 5-6% effective Wednesday, end-users said. With the latest cut, Sinopec Qilu Petrochemical is offering SBR1502 in East China at Yuan ...
Asian butadiene prices are at a 3-1/2 half year low amid weak demand and a glut of synthetic rubber stocks, Platts data showed. The FOB Korea benchmark for butadiene stood at $1,350/mt on June 17. The last time butadiene prices were ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has cut its ex-works price for butadiene for a third time in June, reducing it by Yuan 500/mt, or 5%, effective Thursday, end-users said. Sinopec's subsidiaries in East, North and South China ...
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Qatar will use a mix feed of ethane and natural gas liquids as feedstock for two upcoming petrochemical projects, a company source said Monday. The first project involves Qatar Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. The two companies signed a ...
French tire maker Michelin and Indonesia’s Chandra Asri Petrochemical’s (CAP) subsidiary Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia (PBI) have inked a deal to build a new $435m synthetic rubber plant. The move follows establishment of a ...
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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Polish chemical producer Synthos has begun an emergency shutdown of all units at its petrochemical complex in Kralupy, Czech Republic due to extreme flooding by the Vltava river, a company source said Monday. "We are closing production of ...
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South Korea's petrochemicals maker Korea Petrochemical Industry Company said Thursday its first-quarter net profit rose 32.7% year on year to Won 6.9 billion ($6.1 million), from Won 5.2 billion a year earlier. Operating profit also ...
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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 ...
SIBUR will showcase its polymer products and investment projects, earmarked for export to China and other Asian countries, at Chinaplas, Asia’s largest petrochemical products exhibition in Guangzhou, China. The main focus will be on ...
BASF plans to begin production of 1,4-butanediol based on renewable feedstock (renewable BDO) using the patented process of Genomatica, San Diego, California. The one-step fermentation process is based on sugars as a renewable feedstock. ...
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