At the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, Gianpiero Repole, commercial director of Liberty Group assessed the current situation in long steel markets and shared his opinions regarding the ...
Tags: steel, minerals, steel industry
Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, an agency of the US Department of Commerce) have tested ...
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In the week from March 18 to March 24, the scrap indexes switched to sideways movement on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index started to move upwards. The flat rolled products indexes showed both downward and ...
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Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan has nominated the April paraxylene Asian Contract Price at $1,600/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Friday. There are four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Idemitsu Kosan, Japan's JX ...
Blend values for toluene and mixed xylene have become a price floor as their derivative demand shrank in the spot market, sources said Sunday on the sidelines of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers' annual conference. ...
Competitively-priced cargoes of Indonesian thermal coal added to the downward pressure on Chinese spot prices Wednesday, with a Panamax spot cargo of Kalimantan 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal heard placed into south China at $83/mt CFR basis, ...
Tags: Coal, thermal coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
European mixed xylene prices were under downward pressure from the sharp correction in Asian and US mixed xylenes prices. Market sources said European isomer-mixed xylenes were trading at $1,290/mt FOB ARA, down $10 from Platts' March 15 ...
The Peruvian polyvinyl chloride market flipped into backwardation for April as buyers took long positions in anticipation of lengthening supply in second-quarter 2013, sources said Thursday. "Consumers are buying only the minimum amount ...
Tags: PVC Dips, Seasonal Demand, Peruvian
Reportedly, the import price of rebar in Singapore is barely possible to increase due to the unfavorable global economy and falling raw material prices although the local demand on steel products is quite well. Current price of rebar BS4449 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
The spread between Asian styrene monomer and benzene widened to an 18-month high of $339.50/mt last Friday, as limited supply pushed SM prices higher amid a weakening benzene market. The last high for the spread was on September 19, 2011, ...
Tags: SM, benzene, styrene monomer
Medrio, a US-based integrated eClinical software manufacturer, is offering its web-based Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Software for Clinical Research to universities under its Medrio Scholars program. The firm claims that the EDC software ...
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In the week from March 11 to March 17, the scrap indexes moved downwards on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index started to decline after four straight weeks of upward movement. The Black Sea HRC export index ...
Tags: Scrap, Steel Index, Mineral
Chinese buyers were bargain-hunting in the seaborne market against a backdrop of generally bearish demand and were heard Friday to have snapped up two Capesize spot cargoes of 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal for $83.50-84.75/mt CFR south China, with ...
Tags: Chemicals, CFR Cargoes Trade, Chinese Market
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has cut its ex-works prices of butadiene in East China by 5.41% effective Wednesday, market sources said. Offers from Sinopec's subsidiaries in eastern China, Yangzi Petrochemical, Shanghai ...
Tags: Petroleum, Chemical, butadiene price
Uncertainty over feedstock prices is putting a block on upward momentum in the European polyethylene terephthalate market, market sources said. Prices have been marching upwards recently as producers pushed through higher feedstock prices ...