China's appetite for imported naphtha has grown since the start of the year on the back of strong demand from petrochemical producers, market sources and traders said this week Imports of the petrochemical feedstock over January-April ...
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Asian paraxylene buyers placed their counterbids for June at $1,150-1,170/mt CFR, more than $100/mt lower than nominations for the Asian contract price, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. There are four PX ACP sellers in ...
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South Korea's November exports of isomer-grade mixed xylenes fell 14% from October to 27,372 mt due to a turnaround and lower shipments to key market China, data released Monday by the Korea Customs Service showed. South Korea exported ...
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Taiwan's CPC will likely sell 10,000-30,000 mt of isomer-grade mixed xylenes in 2014, as it runs one paraxylene units every other month and keeps the other two PX units shut due to thin margins, a market source said Monday. CPC has been ...
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Innovation and integration resulting in greater feedstock flexibility have provided a significant competitive advantage for ExxonMobil’s chemical business, Steve Pryor, President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company, told attendees at the ...
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PTT Global Chemical revealed its operating performance in the third quarter of 2013, which showed increasing profits even againt the impact of three major events which had placed constraints on its operations, the incidents included an oil ...
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Taiwan's CPC will become a net exporter of isomer-grade mixed xylenes in 2014 from being a net importer as it has been producing more MX by using feedstock reformate supplied by its own system, a company source said Wednesday. "We are ...
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JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation is likely to restart its Sendai, Japan-based aromatics plant on October 19, 2013, after a maintenance turnaround. "The plant is under a maintenance turnaround since September 18, 2013," a company ...
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Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Petrochemical Industries Company (K.S.C.) (PIC) for a pre-feasibility study and a market report for a proposed ...
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Taiwan's Formosa Chemical and Fiber Corp is maintaining run rates at its three aromatics plants at 90-100% of capacity despite paraxylene production margins remaining poor, a company source said last Friday. The price spread between Asian ...
The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes shrank $9/mt day on day to a one-year low of $175/mt on a CFR basis Wednesday as PX prices turned top heavy while MX remained bullish, Platts data showed. Asian ...
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South Korea's HC Petrochem plans to further cut runs at its No 2 aromatics plant at Daesan to 70% from early next week, due to weak production margins for paraxylene, a company official said Thursday. "Operating at 70% capacity is the ...
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South Korea's benzene exports to China rebounded 11,848 mt or 188.3% month on month to 18,139 mt in July, data released Thursday by the Korea Customs Service showed. The surge was due to the narrowing price gap between domestic and ...
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Hyundai Cosmo (HC) Petrochemical Ltd. is operating its Daesan, South Korea-based No.2 aromatics plant at reduced rate. “The No. 2 aromatics plant is running at 80 percent operating rates due to lower Mixed Xylene (MX) – ...
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Borealis said Tuesday it would invest Eur65 million ($85.4 million) to upgrade the Borstar PE2 (polyethylene2) plant technology to the third generation, extending the Borstar PE platform at its production site in Porvoo, Finland. "This ...
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