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 ...
Tags: Butadiene, Weak Demand
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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BASF will increase the price for all medium solids styrene butadiene emulsion polymers by $0.05 per wet pound in North America, effective March 29, 2013 or as contracts allow. This price increase involves BASF products under the tradename ...
The monthly average price for Asian butadiene plunged 13% to $1,738/mt FOB Korea in March against $2,007.50/mt in February over a lack of Chinese demand and oversupply, Platts data showed. The last time the monthly average was higher was ...
Tags: Butadiene, Average Price, Chemicals
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, slashed its ex-works prices for butadiene in East China by 7% effective late Tuesday, market sources said Wednesday. Butadiene offers from Sinopec's subsidiaries across East China -- Yangzi ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Petroleum
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 ...
Tags: butadiene prices, synthetic rubber, Asian naphtha prices
China's Panjin Ethylene Industry Corp. raised its butadiene offers by Yuan 300($48)/mt, or about 3%, to Yuan 11,310/mt ex-tank, effective Monday, local end-users said. This is PEIC's first price hike after slashing prices on five ...
Tags: PEIC, butadiene prices, Chemical Industry
Demand for high impact polystyrene in Asia has fallen over the past one month on plunging acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene prices, making it more attractive than HIPS for many customers, Asian HIPS producers said this week. ABS is a ...
Tags: high impact polystyrene, plunging acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene
ABS prices in China, Italy and Turkey are facing significant upward pressure due to rapidly escalating upstream costs, as per ChemOrbis. Although demand in all three countries has been unspectacular, players are nevertheless predicting ...
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Commodity resin prices are tumbling throughout North America, with polypropylene experiencing the steepest drop -- a 14-cent dive since Oct. 1. Regional prices for polyethylene, PVC, polystyrene and ABS also are down in recent weeks, ...