US propylene inventories at the end of first quarter of 2014 were 3.6% higher than year-ago levels and 1.5% above stocks at the end of the previous quarter, revised data from the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers trade group ...
Tags: Propylene, propylene production
Japan's largest refiner, JX Nippon Oil & Energy, concluded its May Asia Contract Price for benzene at $1,268/mt CFR late Wednesday, up $3/mt from its April settlement, a company source said. Thursday was a public holiday in Singapore. ...
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Chicago Board of Trade May soybean oil futures were down 46 points to 41.42 cents/lb Thursday as weekly data from the US Department of Agriculture showed a significant decline in net export sales. For the reporting week ended April 24, ...
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The US imported 525 million gallons of biomass-based diesel in 2013, nearly 10 times the 2012 total of 61 million gallons, the Energy Information Administration data said Friday. The substantial growth reflected increased demand to ...
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Since the beginning of April when the Chinese government announced a lower starting auction price, the pace of sales from China’s reserve increased and the Type 328 China Cotton Index (a daily index of prices for domestic cotton ...
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The prospect of Beijing banning imports of low-calorific value thermal coal again loomed over the Chinese seaborne market as the policy was rumoured to form the centerpiece of a tough new environmental law enacted by China's parliament, ...
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India's natural gas demand is forecast to more than double to 516.97 million cubic meters/day in fiscal 2021-22, according to a report commissioned by an oil ministry regulatory body. Demand in fiscal 2016-17 is forecast at 378.06 million ...
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US crude stocks climbed 3 million barrels to 391.7 million barrels in the week that ended April 25, as inventories at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub rose, data Tuesday from the American Petroleum Institute showed. Analysts polled by ...
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Domestic prices of hydrous ethanol in Brazil's center-south -- the world's largest sugarcane growing region -- hit five-month lows Tuesday as offers continued to flood the market. Product sold at plants in Ribeirao Preto have fallen 13% ...
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China Molybdenum produced 3,749 mt of moly concentrates in the first quarter of 2014, at a cash production cost of Yuan 64,453/mt ($10,307/mt), the Henan based producer said in its quarterly report Monday without providing a year-on-year ...
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A three-month old arbitrage window to export Asian butadiene to the US that had been slowly closing earlier this month has widened again this week and as a result producers and traders have been heard trying to arrange for butadiene cargoes ...
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Counter bids for May Asian Contract Price for paraxylene were in a range of $1,040-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Tuesday. There are four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and JX Nippon Oil ...
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R.G. Barry Corporation, the parent of Dearfoams, signed a merger agreement pursuant to which Mill Road Capital, a private equity firm, will acquire all of the outstanding shares of R.G. Barry for $19.00 per share in cash, reflecting an ...
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AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has recently made its high-reliability, military-qualified ceramic and tantalum capacitorsThe tantalum capacitor distinguishes itself from other ...
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"We had a good start to the year in our chemicals business and in the Agricultural Solutions segment. We sold more. This more than compensated for the negative effects on sales from the comparatively weak U.S. dollar and currencies in ...
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