The January US terephthalic acid contract price was heard settling at 67.22 cents/lb ($1,482/mt), up 2.83 cents/lb after Thursday's settlement of the US paraxylene contract, industry sources said. Demand for US PTA remained low, while ...
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Term contract discussions between Asian purified terephthalic acid producers and end-users are at a stalemate over a failure to agree on a new pricing formula, industry sources said Friday. The two sides typically finalize their term ...
Tags: PX price, Asia, PTA market
The production margin for spot purified terephthalic acid hit a six-month high Wednesday following a sharp drop in feedstock paraxylene prices, but this still failed to lift the margin out of the red, Platts data showed. The PTA margin ...
Tags: PTA, paraxylene, price, Asia
The FOB Korea toluene 2013 term contracts were mostly concluded at a premium of $7-8/mt to the Platts FOB Korea toluene marker, traders and producers said Wednesday. This is an increase of around $2-3/mt from premiums for 2012 ...
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Thai paraxylene producer PTT Aromatics and Refining has concluded its 2013 term supply contracts at a premium of around $14/mt, up from last year's $9/mt, a company source said Wednesday. The producer settles its annual supply contracts ...
Tags: Chemicals, PTTAR, paraxylene, PTT Aromatics
Asian aromatics hit all-time highs this week on shrinking supplies and rising feedstock costs. Toluene and styrene monomer spot prices set new records Wednesday, assessed at $1,388.50/mt FOB Korea and $1,674/mt FOB Korea respectively while ...
Tags: Asian Aromatics, Chemicals, Tight Supply, Speculation
The officials in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo have halted the planned expansion of paraxylene (PX) production plant, owned by China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., known as Sinopec Group, after protests over the weekend. The ...
Tags: Sinopec, expansion of paraxylene, protests
Pwnie Express, nationally known for innovative penetration testing tools, stormed into DerbyCon as a silver sponsor this year. The company unveiled the newest of their products, the Pwnie Express Enterprise Pentest Appliance (PX-EPA). ...
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US spot mixed xylenes rose 5 cents/gal ($15.15/mt) Monday to a near three-month high at $4.80/gal ($1,469.55/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast on continued tight supply, sources said. Bids were heard at $4.65/gal FOB US Gulf, against a prompt offer ...
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The Asian isomer-mixed xylenes market reacted cautiously Wednesday following record highs seen in the US MX market overnight, with Asian prices moving up just 0.07% in early trading. The Asian isomer-MX market was pegged at $1,437/mt CFR ...
Tags: mixed xylene, xylene, isomer mixed, PX plant
Mogilevkhimvolokno, part of the state run Belarus chemical company Belneftekhim, will import paraxylene (PX) from Kazakhstan to manufacture polyester fibre, Belneftekhim has announced. Last month, a joint proposal was signed between ...
Tags: Belarus, paraxylene, polyester fibre
India's ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited has issued tenders to sell paraxylene and benzene from its new aromatics plant, the company said Tuesday. The plant, which is under under construction at Mangalore and scheduled to come online ...
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Two new purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants have become operational in China, which has led to a rise in demand and consequently an increase in imports of paraxylene (PX) in September 2012. A new plant with capacity to produce 1.5 ...
Tags: PX imports, purified terephthalic acid, paraxylene, PX
Hengli Petrochemical Industrial Park, which mainly engages in the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), used extensively in the production of textiles, has begun operations at its plant in Dalian located in Northeast China’s ...