BASF has agreed to divest its paper coating dispersions business in Pischelsdorf of Austria to Synthomer for around €30m. Synthomer Austria will acquire BASF production site in Pischelsdorf, which produces styrene butadiene rubber ...
Tags: Paper Coating Dispersions, BASF
The Asian butadiene-naphtha price spread hit a seven-year high of $2,557.38/mt CFR last Friday amid extremely tight supply globally and strong demand for downstream products such as styrene-butadiene-rubber, SB latex and ...
Tags: Butadiene Naphtha, styrene
Russian-origin styrene butadiene rubber 1502 grade was seen being offered at prices similar to offers from mainland Europe this week eroding the Eur50-200 spread between product from the two sources through 2015, trade sources said. ...
Tags: styrene butadiene rubber, SBR-1502
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, has raised its ex-works butadiene price across China by Yuan 200-300/mt to Yuan 9,000/mt, or $1,209/mt on an import parity basis, traders said Tuesday. Sinopec last Friday raised its ...
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has raised its ex-works butadiene price in East China by Yuan 100/mt to Yuan 8,800/mt Friday, traders said. The latest price is equivalent to $1,182/mt on an import parity basis. But the ...
Tags: Sinopec, downstream markets
Kumho Petrochemical will continue to operate its two butadiene plants in South Korea at reduced rates of 50% for the time being, due to an ongoing lack of crude C4 feedstock, a company source said Wednesday. The company has a 150,000 ...
Tags: Butadiene, Kumho Petrochemical
The March US butadiene contract price Friday settled up 8-13 cents/lb ($176-$287/mt) from February at a 68-78 cents/lb ($1,499-$1,720/mt) split settlement, sources said. LyondellBasell, Shell Chemicals and TPC Group settled up 8 cents/lb ...
Shell Chemicals nominated its March US butadiene contract price up 8 cents/lb ($176/mt) from February to 68 cents/lb ($1,499/mt), sources said Thursday. Shell officials could not be reached immediately for confirmation. TPC Group also ...
Russia's exports of synthetic rubber rose 8.3% year-on-year to 943,500 mt in 2013, according to the country's Federal Customs Service's (FCS) data released Friday. The FCS did not give details of export volumes for each month. But last ...
Tags: Rubber Exports, synthetic rubber
In the recently published study, the market research institute Ceresana comprehensively analyzes and describes the development of the global market for styrene. Styrene is an important product in the petrochemical industry and used to ...
As part of a working visit to Armenia Rosneft President Igor Sechin met with the President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan. A number of documents, pointed at extending cooperation with the republic, were signed in presence of the ...
Qatar Petroleum (QP) and two Japanese companies, namely Zeon Corporation and Mitsui & Co. Ltd., today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of an integrated butadiene extraction and elastomer complex in Ras Laffan ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Plastics brought great convenience to human life, due to its advantage of low cost, strong corrosion resistance, strong plasticity, since the invention of the day it was popular, with processing technology advances and technological ...
Tags: Rubber Products, Plastic Products
Japan imported 4,536 mt of styrene-butadiene-rubber solids in July, up 22% from 3,732 mt in June but down 26% from 6,129 mt a year earlier, data released Friday by the Rubber Trade Association of Japan showed. The country has imported ...
Tags: Chemicals, styrene-butadiene-rubber solids, Synthetic rubber
Polymers are the best invented material by mankind which eased human life to very great extent. Most of the day to day use in human society like tyres, automobiles, bags, packaging, rope and anything you name it. Rubber is one of the ...