US orthoxylene contracts were heard settling at 57 cents/lb ($1,256/mt) for April, down 1.5 cents from March, industry sources said Thursday. There had been expectations in the market that contracts could roll over, with feedstock-mixed ...
Tags: Orthoxylene, OX demand
The Northwest European orthoxylene contract price for March has been confirmed as fully settled at Eur940/mt ($1,291/mt) FD NWE, sources said Wednesday. The settlement represents a Eur25/mt decrease from February, following a Eur40/mt ...
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March contracts for US orthoxylene rolled over for March, settling at 58.5 cents/lb ($1,290/mt), market sources said Thursday. Contracts were settled Wednesday, they said. Sources said sellers went into negotiations seeking a slight ...
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Taiwan's CPC will likely sell 10,000-30,000 mt of isomer-grade mixed xylenes in 2014, as it runs one paraxylene units every other month and keeps the other two PX units shut due to thin margins, a market source said Monday. CPC has been ...
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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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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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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has cut its ex-works price of orthoxylene in East China by Yuan 200/mt, or 1.9%, effective Tuesday, market sources said. Yangzi-BASF and Sinopec Zhenhai, the company's subsidiaries in East ...
South Korea's benzene exports to China rebounded 11,848 mt or 188.3% month on month to 18,139 mt in July, data released Thursday by the Korea Customs Service showed. The surge was due to the narrowing price gap between domestic and ...
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June contracts for US orthoxylene were heard settled Thursday at 63 cents/lb, a 1.5 cent decrease from May, multiple industry sources said. May OX contracts were assessed at 64.5 cents/lb. US OX contract settlements typically follow the ...
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US orthoxylene contracts settled Tuesday at 71.50 cents/lb, a 6-cent increase over December, according to multiple industry sources. The increase was expected after the January contract for feedstock MX settled up 36 cents last week, ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, raised its ex-works price of orthoxylene in East China by 1.8% effective Tuesday, industry sources said Thursday. Yangzi-BASF and Sinopec Zhenhai -- the company's subsidiaries in East China ...
Tags: China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, orthoxylene, raised ex-works price, OX