It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,8 commodities increased in prices, 41 fell and 51 remained unchanged on 28/03/2013.The largest rises were Styrene (2.41%),Iron ore (0.85%),Propylene oxide (0.35%),while the ...
Tags: Spot Commodities, Chemicals
US spot styrene margins are poised to remain flat to slightly higher following the procurement of cheaper feedstock ethylene estimated to begin in 2015-2016 as a result of the shale gas plays, industry sources said Monday on the sidelines ...
Tags: SM Margins, Chemicals, lighter crude
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,22 commodities increased in prices, 27 fell and 51 remained unchanged on 25/03/2013.The largest rises were Propylene oxide (1.24%),PA (1.12%),Nickel (1.04%),while the ...
Tags: Commodities Price Chart, China, Chemicals
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, slashed its ex-works prices for butadiene in East China by 7% effective late Tuesday, market sources said Wednesday. Butadiene offers from Sinopec's subsidiaries across East China -- Yangzi ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Petroleum
US spot toluene was assessed 8 cents ($24.32/mt) lower Monday compared with Friday's mark at a nearly seven-month low of $4.07/gal ($1,237.28/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast due to weak demand and excess supplies, sources said. The last time spot ...
Tags: toluene, benzene, mixed xylene
The spread between Asian styrene monomer and benzene widened to an 18-month high of $339.50/mt last Friday, as limited supply pushed SM prices higher amid a weakening benzene market. The last high for the spread was on September 19, 2011, ...
Tags: SM, benzene, styrene monomer
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,9 commodities increased in prices, 31 fell and 60 remained unchanged on 15/03/2013.The largest rises were Nickel (1.05%),Chloroform (0.74%),Toluene (0.62%),while the ...
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has cut its ex-works prices of butadiene in East China by 5.41% effective Wednesday, market sources said. Offers from Sinopec's subsidiaries in eastern China, Yangzi Petrochemical, Shanghai ...
Tags: Petroleum, Chemical, butadiene price
Reignited concerns over the domestic benzene demand as well as a stubbornly closed arbitrage to the US saw European benzene prices plunge below $1,300/mt for the first time since mid-October, Platts data show. Benzene barges were assessed ...
Tags: benzene, benzene demand, benzene barges
China's February 2013 imports of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene came in at 87,283 mt, the lowest since February 1999, partly due to higher prices and the the Lunar New Year holidays, according to official data. The imports slipped ...
China's February 2013 imports of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene came in at 87,283 mt, the lowest since February 1999, partly due to higher prices and the the Lunar New Year holidays, according to official data. The imports slipped ...
The Northwest European benzene market tumbled to a 15-week low of $1,335.5/mt Tuesday on a combination of weak downstream demand, upcoming derivatives turnarounds, a closed arbitrage to the US, as well as persistently high inventories, ...
Tags: benzene, US, Platts data
U.S. 8,202,919 B2 Polyguard Products, Inc. has been granted a patent for a composition for application to provide a water barrier coating on a construction surface comprised of at least one of wood, cement, masonry, plaster, stone, clay ...
U.S. 8,188,183 B2 Imperial Chemical Industries has been granted a patent for an autoxidisable coating comprised of a liquid dispersion medium and a binder wherein the binder is comprised of an unsaturated copolymer which is produced by ...
Margins for producing styrene monomer in Asia have shrunk rapidly in March as SM prices tumble amid weak sentiment in China, with the spread to feedstock benzene narrowing 17% and to naphtha shrinking 8% since the end of February, Platts ...
Tags: SM Margins, styrene monomer, Asia