Asia's paraxylene market extended falls Monday morning, with the CFR Taiwan/China PX price benchmark declining quickly to under the psychological $1,600/mt mark for the first time in three months under heavy sell pressure, market sources ...
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Marathon Petroleum has declared force majeure on benzene, toluene and mixed xylene, trading sources said Monday. No further details are known and confirmation from Marathon was unavailable as a spokesman at the company declined to comment, ...
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Idemitsu Kosan is operating the Xylene and benzene lines at its two aromatic plants at 100 percent capacity rates mainly due to high margins in the spot market. “The Xylene and benzene lines in the aromatics plants in Chiba and ...
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In Korea, O-Xylene prices went up in the week ending February 16, 2013. Overall, market sentiment improved and downstream demand increased. In the initial days of the week, prices were assessed at US$ 1580/ton higher by US$ 10/ton, as ...
European solvents producers are under pressure to increase prices due to the drop in the value of the euro against the dollar despite poor-to-stable demand, sources said this week. In some cases, firm feedstock prices for most of February ...
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Houseplants are beautiful and effective decorating accents or focal points. My mother, a highly skilled interior decorator, did not have big groupings of small plants to make an impact. She said that look was busy and cluttered. Instead, ...
M-Xylene prices went up by 3% w-o-w in the first week of February this year due to rise in upstream product prices. Prices were assessed in the range of 455-465 (cents/gallon) FOB US in the week ending February 9, 2013. M-Xylene prices ...
Xylene splitter, a xylene separation tower used to produce aromatics, has been installed by the Jurong Aromatic Corporation (JAC) in Jurong Island, the petro chemical hub of Singapore. The xylene splitter was installed by the company ...
Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd. and Hyundai Oilbank have been conducting test operations of the new para-xylene (PX) production plant though the joint venture company, HCP. The company is pleased to announce that production has commenced 5 months in ...
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,30 commodities increased in prices, 13 fell and 57 remained unchanged on 31/01/2013.The largest rises were Nickel (1.57%),Silver (1.24%),Zinc (0.72%),while the largest ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,28 commodities increased in prices, 15 fell and 57 remained unchanged on 30/01/2013.The largest rises were Nickel (1.35%),Zinc (1.34%),Mild steel plate (1.22%),while the ...
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Commodity Sectors 01-28 01-29 Change PET Rubber & plastics 11300.00 11200.00 0.89% PTA Textile 8750.00 8700.00 0.57% Chloroform Chemical ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,22 commodities increased in prices, 19 fell and 58 remained unchanged on 25/01/2013.The largest rises were Hydrochloric acid (0.81%),Acrylic acid (0.69%),Iron ore ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,20 commodities increased in prices, 20 fell and 59 remained unchanged on 24/01/2013.The largest rises were Phenol (1.50%),Coke (0.79%),Color coated sheet (0.68%),while the ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,26 commodities increased in prices, 18 fell and 55 remained unchanged on 23/01/2013.The largest rises were Methanol (0.71%),Color coated sheet (0.68%),PC (0.49%),while the ...
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