The Northwest European April benzene contract price has been fully settled at Eur1,019/mt or $1,402/mt CIF ARA, market sources said Tuesday. The settlement represents an increase of Eur16/mt and $32/mt from the March contract price of ...
Tags: benzene, spot prices
Contract development and manufacturing company Vetter is set to introduce a flexible serialization service for track-and-trace programs. The move is aimed at enabling manufacturers to meet the expanded requirements by official regulatory ...
Gas contracts on European prompt markets extended last week's losses Monday on reduced demand ahead of the summer season when the market switches to injecting gas into storage facilities, which are at healthy levels. Day-ahead gas price ...
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MEGlobal has set its April North American benchmark price for monoethylene glycol at 51 cents/lb, down 3 cents/lb from March levels, a company source said Friday. The reduction was anticipated. Earlier this month, MEGlobal nominated its ...
Tags: PET makers, CFR
Although this week’s trading action may have felt like a victory for the bears, the chart reveals that the market has actually moved sideways in the last 15 sessions, with May closing in a tight range between 91 and 94 cents since ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Mixed Trends, balance sheet
Despite volatile trading, ICE Cotton futures settled only slightly higher this week at 93.74 c/lbs basis the K4, and not much change is seen in the overall open interest. The week opened down sharply on Monday, followed by a 350 pts gain on ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Volatile Trading
Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
Softer coastal freight rates for shipping domestic thermal coal from northern to southern ports in China has put seaborne-traded cargoes at a slight price disadvantage, and renewed downward pressure on CFR South China prices, said traders ...
Counter bids for the April Asian Contract Price for paraxylene are seen to come in at around $1,050-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. The four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and ...
Tags: Paraxylene, PTA market, PTA producers
Ormet, as it winds down its aluminum business in the US, is seeking federal bankruptcy court permission to sell another 24,000 mt, plus or minus 5%, of sandy calcined metallurgical-grade alumina to Swiss commodities trader Trafigura AG for ...
Tags: Ormet, Calcined Alumina, aluminum
May Design Series (taking place from 18-20th May at London ExCeL) will feature a strong seminar programme, set over two stages and featuring industry thought leaders from the retail and contract sectors. One stage will be dedicated to ...
Tags: Seminar Programme, Furniture
Despite ethanol prices at their highest levels in nearly eight years, multiple ethanol production facilities in the US Midwest will undergo spring maintenance turnarounds in the coming weeks, sources said Tuesday. Flint Hills Resources ...
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Expedited regulatory approval of proposed US liquefied natural gas export terminals would not lead to their immediate construction nor to near-term deliveries of US gas into Europe, panelists at a Senate hearing said Tuesday. Several US ...
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has signed a $9.7m agreement with the Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Directorate within the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to transfer and produce a 0.14μm gallium nitride ...
Tags: RF Micro Devices, GaN technology
The Australian compressed air industry has long been dominated by plastic and galvanised steel piping products - materials borrowed from allied industries such as the building and plumbing sectors. Traditionally, engineers and contractors ...
Tags: Compressed Air System, Aluminium, Plastic