The Asian butadiene-naphtha price spread hit a seven-year high of $2,557.38/mt CFR last Friday amid extremely tight supply globally and strong demand for downstream products such as styrene-butadiene-rubber, SB latex and ...
Tags: Butadiene Naphtha, styrene
Henkel Adhesive Technologies has introduced two interior adhesive technologies for passenger vehicles, during the Ward's Auto Interiors Conference, at Cobo Center. AQUENCE PL 5101 is a one-component, waterborne laminating adhesive, that ...
Margins for non-integrated styrene monomer producers in Asia shrank to their narrowest in 11 months Monday due to firm feedstock ethylene and tumbling SM market amid weak demand season in the fourth quarter. The margin was calculated at ...
Tags: styrene, benzene, polystyrene
The Northwest European styrene monomer/benzene spread rallied to a month-high Tuesday of $203/mt on stronger styrene, rebounding from a one-year low of $148/mt established April 4 but still representing deeply negative production margins, ...
Tags: Styrene, spot product
Total Petrochemicals and IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) have launched via Atol, a joint partnership, technology to produce bio-ethylene via the dehydration of renewable ethanol, the companies announced Wednesday. The technology will ...
In the recently published study, the market research institute Ceresana comprehensively analyzes and describes the development of the global market for styrene. Styrene is an important product in the petrochemical industry and used to ...
The 3Doodler, a sort of handheld 3D modeler, made its public debut at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin this week after racking up thousands of preorders as part of a Kickstarter program. The gadget extrudes heated plastic, ...
Tags: 3D Modeling
Ravi Sethi of ProcurianRaw material costs as a percentage of plastic packaging costs have been on a steady rise due to the long-term appreciation in crude oil prices, a key ingredient for resins. Crude oil prices have increased five-fold ...
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 ...
Tags: Chemicals
Asian acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene producers Thursday said a sharp drop in ABS demand in China in the first quarter of 2013 could be linked to a record decline in worldwide sales of personal computers as reported by the US-based research ...
Tags: Producers Link, ABS Demand
China's February 2013 imports of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene came in at 87,283 mt, the lowest since February 1999, partly due to higher prices and the the Lunar New Year holidays, according to official data. The imports slipped ...
China's February 2013 imports of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene came in at 87,283 mt, the lowest since February 1999, partly due to higher prices and the the Lunar New Year holidays, according to official data. The imports slipped ...
US-based materials company Styron has introduced two new resins, EMERGE PC/ABS 7700 Advanced Resins and MAGNUM Mass ABS Resins, for medical equipment housings. According to the firm, the new EMERGE PC/ABS 7700 Advance Resins are PC/ABS ...
Tags: Styron, Resins for Medical Equipment Housings, Medicine
Iran has decided to keep its export ban on polymers like acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, general purpose polystyrene, high impact polystyrene, polypropylene, polycarbonates and epoxy resins despite having lifted a ban on exports of other ...
Tags: Iran, export ban, polymers, polymers market
Demand for synthetic rubbers, which are used to manufacture tires, in Asian market is expected to recover from slump, following improvement in the economic condition in countries like China and India, according to a new report. According ...