Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina is seeking 5.4 million kiloliters of fatty acid methyl ester over 2014-2014 for gasoil blending through tender, company officials said late Thursday. The tender, which is limited to domestic companies ...
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Spot prices of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal in Asia continued to rise this week as suppliers lifted offer prices on deepening output cuts in South China. Platts assessed the Chinese export spot price at $2,050-2,090/mt FOB China ...
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Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel (NSSC), the largest stainless steel producer has settled the import prices for high carbon ferrochrome with South African producers at 126 cent/lb. CIF for the first quarter of 2014, rising by 4.6% ...
Spot prices of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal in Asia rose this week as sellers raised offer prices due to output cuts in South China. Platts assessed the Chinese export spot price at $2,040-2,060/mt FOB China Thursday, up from ...
Platts assessed the spot price of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal at $2,000-2,050/mt FOB China Thursday, unchanged week on week, as buying interest stayed scant as offer prices from Chinese sellers rose. This week a Chinese producer with ...
Tags: Asia Silicon, silicon metal, spot price
Offers for China's domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 slipped, affected mainly by weaker aluminum ingot prices, while the demand remained steady, seeing no significant change from the previous week, industry sources said. Domestic offers ...
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The spot price for South African charge chrome (48-52% Cr) was assessed at 83-84 cents/pound CIF China Friday, down from 83-85 cents/lb CIF China assessed the previous week, amid slow demand. The spot price of Indian-origin high carbon ...
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A spike in the front-quarter CIF ARA c had eastern US coal export executives guessing Wednesday how much the out-of-the-money range for Central Appalachian thermal coal prices had narrowed. Platts assessed Wednesday the API2 Q1 2014 ...
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European polyethylene spot prices have extended their gains this week, rising Eur10/mt ($13.40/mt) on the week to Eur1,270-1,275/mt FD Northwest Europe, which market sources attributed to tighter supplies as European LDPE producers scale ...
Tags: Polyethylene, Tight Supplies
Petrochemical producers in Northwest Europe have started to reduce propane cracking rates due to a narrow CIF naphtha/CIF propane price spread, according to industry sources. When the price spread between CIF naphtha and cheaper CIF ...
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US spot benzene Wednesday was assessed at $4.17/gal ($1,246.83/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast, up 5 cents/gal ($14.95/mt) from Tuesday, tracking higher European benzene spot prices, sources said. The last time US spot benzene was at this level was ...
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Chinese spot CIF import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode remained steady amid marginal sideways movements, industry sources said Wednesday Import premiums remained around $200/mt CIF China Wednesday, ...
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Fortress Paper Ltd. announces that that China's Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") has made a preliminary determination to impose an interim duty on the import of Canadian dissolving pulp into China. The interim duty applied against the ...
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The domestic float glass industry, which is battling a slowdown in demand, has sought anti-dumping duty on glass imports from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Directorate-General of Anti-Dumping and Allied ...
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The price range for 75%-Si ferrosilicon in Asia widened this week as competition for a buy tender in Japan pulled down spot prices. The spot import price into Japan was assessed at $1,360-1,410/mt CIF Japan Thursday, compared with ...
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