The Asian butadiene/naphtha spread narrowed to an eight-month low of $329.38/mt Monday, following the closure of the arbitrage window to move Asian butadiene to the US Gulf Coast. The spread value was last lower on September 12, 2013, ...
MEGlobal has rolled over its June North American benchmark for monoethylene glycol at 51 cents/lb, multiple market sources said Friday. The company said earlier this week that its June Asia contract price would decline $20 to $1,080/mt ...
Tags: PET makers, DEG prices
Northwest European styrene monomer prices fell $91.50/mt or 5.5% from the start of May to close Thursday at a one-year low of $1,553.50/mt FOB ARA, Platts data showed. The last time it was lower was April 23, 2013 at $1,544.50/mt FOB ARA. ...
Tags: Styrene, polystyrene
PVC market prices across Asia are expected to rise as of June offers on reduced market supply from Taiwan, Japan and India, market sources at the Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference in Pattaya said Thursday. Market participants said ...
Tags: PVC Prices, VCM Shortages
Indonesian thermal coal prices were steady Friday amid reduced production and weak demand from China and India, sources said. "Demand has been flat. There has been no real movement," an Indonesia-based trader said. A Singapore-based ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Flat Demand
Spot Asian coking coal prices moved sideways Monday as ominous signals from the Chinese steel industry, nagging concerns about lower costs and abundant supplies hurt trading sentiment. Lower domestic prices continued to be used as a key ...
Tags: coking coal, domestic prices
The seaborne iron ore market ended a brief two days of gains Thursday as buying activity failed to hold up. Platts assessed the 62% Fe Iron Ore Index at $103.25/dry mt CFR North China Thursday, down 75 cents/dmt on the day. Despite spot ...
Tags: Iron Ore Market, Iron Ore
Northwest European methanol spot prices have fallen below Eur300/mt for the first time since October 2, 2012, under pressure from ample supplies in the market, according to sources. Platts assessed spot methanol at Eur299.50/mt ($411/mt) ...
Tags: Methanol, spot prices
Northwest European spot prices for vinyl acetate monomer tumbled Eur70/mt Thursday under pressure from Asian imports, according to Platts data. The European spot price for VAM was assessed at Eur1,560/mt FD NWE ($2,162.63/mt), down from ...
Tags: Vinyl Acetate Monomer, NWE
Indonesian thermal coal prices were stable to higher on Monday with very few deals reported as the market awaits direction from India after the end of its month-long elections later this week, sources said. "Prices have been more or less ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Indian demand
Diversified iron ore developer London Mining said Monday it produced 900,000 mt of iron ore from the Marampa operation in Sierra Leone in the first quarter, up 17% from Q4 2013, while it looked for a minority investor to help it cope with ...
Tags: Iron Ore, London Mining
Comar has authorised child-resistant (CR) packaging for its SecureCap closures, which is set by Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The SecureCap package has underwent United States Pharmacopeia testing for extractables and light ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Packaging Standards
Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, has announced its financial results for the first quarter this year. Regarding the 2014 outlook, ArcelorMittal has lowered its global steel demand growth guidance to 3-3.5 ...
Tags: Steel Demand, steelmaker
Turkish polyethylene prices Wednesday hit highs not seen since October 2008, driven by limited Middle East offers amid high Asian prices, sources said. Low density polyethylene, linear low density polyethylene and high density ...
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) will launch two coking coal swaps contracts in July settled against prices produced by The Steel Index (TSI), to capitalize on growing interest in steel raw materials derivatives, the exchange said in a ...
Tags: Coking Coal, coking coal futures