Polymers
Sentiment in the polyethylene market is stable, with few price changes in recent weeks. Supplies are reported to be readily available, with January buying not as strong as many had expected. The [...]
AROMATICS
The February benzene CP is expected to fall from January's level, as an ever lengthening spot market on downstream outages and closed arbitrages has piled pressure on spot prices. Crude oil and gasoline prices have [...]
OLEFINS
A disruption at Dow's Boehlen cracker in Germany has added tightness, with few deals reported in a quiet spot market. Propylene is expected to remain tight in the first quarter amid reports of light cracking [...]
PTA:The basic gap changes significantly,the market is hard to trend up
This is the newest quote price of PTA: Recently,prices of PX and crude oil continued to rise, to a certain extent, it gives strong support for the cost of PTA.There is a certain boost to [...]
Acetyl chain shaping up for strong H1 2018: Celanese CEO
Houston (Platts)--26 Jan 2018 630 pm EST/2330 GMT The first half of 2018 is set to be stronger for the acetyl chain than the second half of 2017 due to structural reasons, Celanese's top executive [...]
Supply at home and aboard is worried: the global price of dyestuffs and coatings rose,the amount of increase reached 20%
Chemical Company announced that it will raise the price of Macrolex and Ceres branded solvent dye products globally and the amount is up to 20% with immediate effect. International GmbH on February 1 raised all [...]