China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, has reduced its North China toluene ex-factory offers by Yuan 200/mt ($30.97/mt), or about 4%, Tuesday, amid weakness in demand and the yuan, an industry source said. Its North China ...
Weak demand saw China's imports of toluene plunged to a near six-year low in August, with market sources expecting the bearish sentiment to prolong for the foreseeable future. China's toluene imports in August fell 73% from the previous ...
US toluene disproportionation, Mobil selective toluene disproportionation and hydrodealkylation margins moved higher on Monday after spot benzene prices surged, sources said. TDP margins rose $43/mt to be estimated Monday at $298.87/mt, ...
Tags: Spot Benzene, Chemicals
US spot toluene prices reached a near three-month low assessment Thursday at $3.75/gal ($1,140/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast. Spot prices were last seen at this level on July 9, according to Platts data. Sources said the downward pressure on ...
Tags: Chemicals, spot toluene
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, raised ex-factory toluene prices at its South China subsidiaries by Yuan 100/mt, or 1.2%, on Tuesday, market sources said Tuesday. A company source could not be contacted immediately for ...
Tags: Sinopec, Toluene Prices
The price spread between benzene and its main feedstock toluene plunged 26.7% day on day to a five-month low of $88/mt on an FOB Korea basis Wednesday, below breakeven levels, Platts data showed. Benzene has to be at a premium of ...
Tags: Benzene-Toluene, Chemicals
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, raised ex-factory toluene prices at its South China subsidiaries by 1.3% or Yuan 100/mt Friday, a company source said. Sinopec Guangzhou will now offer toluene at Yuan 8,050/mt, or ...
Tags: Sinopec, China Toluene
Blend values for toluene and mixed xylene have become a price floor as their derivative demand shrank in the spot market, sources said Sunday on the sidelines of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers' annual conference. ...
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 solvent-grade mixed xylenes and feedstock naphtha was assessed by Platts at a six-month low of $184.875/mt on Friday, down $55.625/mt from a week ago. Solvent-MX market came under pressure from weak demand and ample ...
Tags: mixed xylenes, feedstock naphtha, naphtha
The spread between Asian toluene and feedstock naphtha was assessed at a more than four-month low of $263.125/mt Wednesday, down $23.275/mt from Tuesday, as the toluene market came under pressure from weak demand and falling domestic China ...
Tags: toluene, feedstock naphtha, Asia, toluene market
Toluene market showed signs of improvement in Europe in the week ending February 16, 2013. Market was dull since the start of this year. Prices were hovering around US$ 1290-1310/ton FOB Rotterdam in the initial days of January 2013. ...
Tags: Toluene market, improvement, Europe
Toluene market showed mixed trend in Asia whereas it surged up in Europe and went down in US in the week ending December 22. Toluene prices were stable in Korea due to sluggish downstream demand in the region. In the initial days of the ...
Tags: Toluene market, textile, textile price, textile industry
Toluene prices increased in Korea in the week ending December 1, due to strong downstream demand. In the initial days of last week, prices were at US$ 1305/ton higher by US$ 60/ton, as compared to the same period of the previous week. ...
In the previous week, Korean toluene prices went down due to decreased downstream demand and lower upstream product prices. In the initial days of last week, prices were at US$ 1220/ton, slightly lower as compared to the same period of ...
Tags: toluene prices, toluene, toluene market