In the week from October 14 to October 20, on the Orbis Steel Index the scrap index values have not shown any changes compared to the previous week. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index switched to sideways movement, while the Turkish ...
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Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group announced today, October 17, that its iron ore shipments in the third quarter of this year, totaling 25.9 million mt, indicate a year-on-year increase of 61 percent and a rise of four percent ...
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European styrene prices continued to fall Tuesday, continuing the bearish domestic trend seen since the start of September as sellers continued to look to offload excess supply in Europe. However, sources pointed to alternative export ...
Prices for ferrous scrap exports from the US West Coast increased for a third consecutive week this week, with deals for containerized heavy melting scrap I/II (80:20 blend) being concluded at $358/mt CFR Taiwan on Wednesday, up about $2/mt ...
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Taiwan's CPC will become a net exporter of isomer-grade mixed xylenes in 2014 from being a net importer as it has been producing more MX by using feedstock reformate supplied by its own system, a company source said Wednesday. "We are ...
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Reportedly, the Japanese steelmakers recently started the price negotiation for steel wires for November/December deliveries with the Asian buyers. The Japanese steelmakers have sought to raise steel wire export prices by US$20~US$30/ton. ...
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Ethylene glycol manufacturer MEGlobal has kept its Asian Contract Price (ACP) for monoethylene glycol (MEG) for November 2013 unchanged at October contract prices. The company has announced its Asian contract price for MEG at US$ ...
US-based QUMAS’ ComplianceSP on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has been selected by Elos Medtech, an Elos Group company, for managing regulatory content and quality across the organization. The ComplianceSP is a closed-loop enterprise ...
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Paraxylene market participants expect another tough round of negotiations for the Asian Contract Price for October amid tight PX supplies and a bearish downstream purified terephthalic acid market, sources close to the negotiations said ...
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US spot toluene prices reached a near three-month low assessment Thursday at $3.75/gal ($1,140/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast. Spot prices were last seen at this level on July 9, according to Platts data. Sources said the downward pressure on ...
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A small upturn in prices for sub-5,000 kcal/kg NAR Chinese thermal coal on perceived stirrings of restocking activity for the upcoming northern hemisphere winter and some market tightness was seized on by traders Friday. South China ...
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China's fuel oil imports in August fell to a near five-year low of 1.17 million mt amid continued weak demand from both the bunker market and independent teapot refiners, according to data released late Monday by the General Administration ...
Ferrous scrap prices held stable Friday as market participants, waiting for an industry conference next week to give clarity to price direction, reported no deals or firm offers. Platts' daily assessment Friday stood at $360/mt CFR ...
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Prices drifted sideways in the delivered South China cargo market for thermal coal Friday in the absence of any significant buying interest from China, and sellers pondered the next move in a buoyant freight market, market sources said. ...
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The Asian naphtha market may firm going into the last two months of this year on curtailed arbitrage flows which will likely tighten supply balances and year-end demand mopping up excess naphtha supply from the higher arbitrage arrivals in ...
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