PetroChina cut its ex-works offer for isomer-grade mixed xylenes in South China by Yuan 100/mt, or 1.1%, to Yuan 8,900/mt effective Wednesday, market sources said Thursday. The revised price is equivalent to $1,203/mt on an import parity ...
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PetroChina cut its ex-works offer for isomer-grade mixed xylenes in South China by Yuan 100/mt, or 1.1%, to Yuan 8,900/mt effective Wednesday, market sources said Friday. The revised price is equivalent to $1,201/mt on an import parity ...
Tags: Chemicals, PetroChina, xylenes
The Mazda CX-3 is further down the track than expected, with the company’s smallest SUV now tipped to launch in 2015. Mazda has still to officially confirm the model (illustrated above), which CarAdvice exclusively revealed to be in ...
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The spread in Asia between paraxylene and feedstock isomer-grade mixed xylene hit a three-year low of $160/mt Wednesday, amid an open arbitrage into Asia for PX but tight regional supplies for isomer-MX. On Wednesday, Platts assessed the ...
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The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes narrowed $19/mt Monday from Friday's level, to $173/mt, a one year-low, as MX was strengthening amid a bearish PX market, Platts data showed. Isomer-MX on an FOB ...
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The Alfa Giulia, the long-delayed replacement for the 159 (above), may not be sold in Australia when it’s eventually released. The Italian brand’s rival for the likes of the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class had been due ...
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A first look at the next-generation 2015 Mazda MX-5, and its reborn Alfa Romeo Spider twin, comes courtesy of this testing mule with the new car cloaked by an outgoing MX-5 body. The most noticeable change to the regular MX-5 body is ...
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Honda will unveil its highly anticipated and long-rumoured S2000 successor at next month’s Tokyo motor show. Fans hoping for a new generation of the 2.0-litre rear-wheel-drive S2000 are likely to be disappointed with the Honda S660 ...
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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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Mazda engineers are reportedly pushing management to consider a rear-wheel-drive model range to help differentiate it from mainstream manufacturers and push the brand upmarket. According to US motoring site Edmunds, the push is being led ...
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c, the vocational T880, is now available for order. The truck is aimed at dump, mixer, refuse and heavy-haul applications. The T880 comes standard with the Paccar MX-13 engine rated up to 500 hp and with 1,850 lb.-ft. of torque. "The ...
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Kenworth has announced its popular T680 has reached the 10,000-order mark since entering production 15 months ago. "This has been one of the fastest Kenworth models to achieve the 10,000 truck order milestone in Kenworth's 90-year ...
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China's domestic isomer-grade mixed xylenes prices have strengthened partly due to the startup of Dragon Aromatics' new 800,000 mt/year paraxylene plant in Fujian province late August, market sources said Thursday. "Hikes in domestic ...
Taiwan's Formosa Chemical and Fiber Corp is maintaining run rates at its three aromatics plants at 90-100% of capacity despite paraxylene production margins remaining poor, a company source said last Friday. The price spread between Asian ...
The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes shrank $9/mt day on day to a one-year low of $175/mt on a CFR basis Wednesday as PX prices turned top heavy while MX remained bullish, Platts data showed. Asian ...
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