US spot paraxylene jumped $55/mt this past week amid stronger demand from Asia, industry sources said Friday. Thursday's spot PX assessment of $1,445/mt FOB US Gulf Coast marks the highest level since March 25, when it was assessed at ...
Tags: US Spot PX, Chemicals
Because of the slack demand for hot rolled coils (HRC) in Turkey, the ex-mill and transaction prices of HRC further fell to US$610~US$620/ton and US$595~US$605/ton locally. It is estimated that the price would probably go down further to ...
Asian acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene producers Thursday said a sharp drop in ABS demand in China in the first quarter of 2013 could be linked to a record decline in worldwide sales of personal computers as reported by the US-based research ...
Tags: Producers Link, ABS Demand
Machine vision systems supplier Cognex has unveiled a new version of the In-Sight Track & Trace identification and data verification solution for healthcare serialization. The latest version is a follow-up to deployments of In-Sight Track ...
The April European contract price for paraxylene has been fully settled at Eur1,120/mt ($1,467/mt) FD NWE, Eur130/mt lower than March's ECP, sources confirmed Thursday. The ECP was initially settled on Wednesday by seller Shell and buyer ...
Japan-based Shionogi has opted for Qumas ComplianceSP on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to manage and control quality and manufacturing document. Shionogi will use the Qumas technology for users across the clinical and quality assurance areas ...
Tags: Shionogi, Qumas Compliancesp, Quality Content Management
It’s reported that the Chinese steelmakers have cut export prices of boron-added hot rolled coils (HRC) to Southeast Asia to US$565/ton CFR due to weak demand. Also, the Chinese steelmakers decreases export prices for cold rolled base ...
Tags: HRC Export, Mineral
Fixtures for shipments of more than 190,000 mt of heavy naphtha bound for Asia from the US Gulf Coast show that the arbitrage window has reopened to meet firm demand from Asia, trade and shipping sources said Friday. It marks the second ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, gasoline market
European naphtha prices have come under pressure from run cuts in the polyolefin chain as well as falling crude prices, with ICE Brent futures sinking to an eight-month low Friday, sources said. CIF NWE naphtha was assessed at $846.50/mt ...
Tags: polyethylene market, polyethylene
After hitting an eight-month low on March 28, Asian isomer-grade mixed xylenes have seen a marked rebound as bargain hunters returned to the market and the downstream paraxylene sector showed signs of rising demand. From $1,119.50/mt FOB ...
Tags: Asian Isomer-Mx, Downstream
Some miners in Indonesia's East Kalimantan region have been deferring loadings of thermal coal cargoes by seven to 10 days amid rains, sources said Friday. Several vessels are being diverted to East Kalimantan from South Kalimantan, which ...
Tags: Asia Thermal Coal, Miners, Chemicals
In the week from April 1 to April 7, the Turkish scrap index continued to move downwards, while the US (East Coast) HMS I/II scrap export index switched to sideways movement on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish HRC and ...
Tags: Scrap, Steel Index, Mineral
In the week from March 25 to March 31, the scrap indexes started to move downwards on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index slightly decreased. The Turkish flat rolled products indexes have not shown any changes ...
Tags: Scrap, Steel Index, Mineral
Buying interest for imported cargoes of thermal coal was restricted to South African higher calorific coal in the Chinese spot market Thursday, market sources said. Seaborne-traded thermal coal with a calorific value of 5,500 kcal/kg on a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Thermal Coal, Coal
Chinese buying interest was mostly concentrated on cargoes of lower calorific value thermal coal from Indonesia Wednesday, as traders expressed fears that another decline in domestic thermal coal prices was not far away and could have a ...
Tags: Asia Thermal Coal, CV Coal, Chemicals