The arbitrage window to move polypropylene cargoes from China to Southeast Asia has opened on paper, but no cargoes have been booked so far for the voyage, traders said Wednesday. Demand for PP is weak in China ahead of the long Lunar New ...
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The European monoethylene glycol January contract price was fully settled Wednesday at Eur1,068/mt ($1,422/mt) FD NWE, industry sources said Thursday. This represents an increase of Eur20/mt on December. The initial settlement ...
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China is expected to see an influx of polyethylene from Iran this month, after an absence of product from the Middle Eastern country since early October, market sources said. An estimated 100,000-150,000 mt of high density and low ...
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Asian isomer-grade mixed xylene spot prices have slumped around 8% since reaching record highs of $1,427.50/mt FOB Korea and $1,446.50/mt CFR Taiwan on January 7, Platts data showed. On Wednesday, the mixed xylene was assessed at ...
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European Toluene market had dull sentiments in the earlier days of this month. Upstream product prices remained unstable and market experts predicted sluggish downstream demand for the first quarter of the current year. However, ...
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Poor weather at Qinhuangdao and other coal export ports in northeast China have impeded some coal shipments to power plants along the Asian country's coastline, but well-covered Chinese end users were refraining from panic buying in the ...
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It’s reported that the Chinese Rizhao Steel recently hiked its H beam export quotes substantially. The company increased export prices of boron-added H beam by US$30~US$35/ton to around US$580~US$585/ton CFR. Meanwhile, it’s ...
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Microsoft today shipped an emergency update for Internet Explorer (IE) to stymie attacks that have been occurring since at least Dec. 7. The "out-of-band" update -- the label for a security fix outside a vendor's normal schedule -- was ...
In the week from January 7 to January 13, on the Orbis Steel Index the scrap indexes moved upwards, with the Turkish scrap index rising for the fourth consecutive week. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index maintained its upward ...
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 ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will issue an emergency update to patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) in the next two weeks to fix a flaw criminals have been using for more than a month, researchers said Tuesday. The company will ...
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 ...
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Chinese end-users have switched to concluding term contract deals and lessened their spot buying with the approach of China's Lunar New Year festivities in mid-February, as spot prices for south China stayed rangebound in Thursday's trading ...
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M-Xylene market showed downward trend in Asia while it was steady in Europe and US in week ending January 5. In Korea,M-Xylene trends went down,due to weak demand from the downstream market.In the early days of last week,prices were ...
Chemical Stability, Forced Degradation, Stress Testing are just some of the applications for the Amebis Stability Testing and Monitoring System (STAMS) available from ATG Scientific. This highly flexible, low cost tool with 21 CFR part 11 ...
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