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Hengli tops the chart of global PTA capacity

Guangzhou (JLC), July 20, 2023 – Hengli Petrochemical (Huizhou) has achieved full operation at its PTA project located in the Huizhou Industrial Park, which houses two PTA production units.

07-20-2023 18:50:34

Global styrene flow eyes variation on capacity change

Shandong (JLC), November 22, 2022--The global styrene flow changed during 2021-2022 when China styrene capacity underwent faster expansion while more styrene units in Europe and the US suspended prod

11-22-2022 11:10:48

Global PVC market weakens on muted fundamentals

Shandong (JLC), July 15, 2022--From 2021, the foreign demand for China's PVC has been outstanding. However, despite the reduction in domestic production, the price of PVC continued to fall from the fo

07-15-2022 17:02:00

Luxi Chemical may become global largest PA supplier

Shandong (JLC), March 18, 2022--Luxi Chemical Group (Luxi Chemical) in Liaocheng, Shandong is building its phase II propionic acid (PA) project, and the company may become the largest PA supplier in

03-18-2022 17:00:50

Propylene global ocean freight hikes on Omicron spread

01-24-2022 09:13:52

Global PX capacity surges in 2019

Shandong (JLC), April 27, 2020--The global PX capacity increased sharply in 2019, largely contributing to great rises in Asian PX capacity, and the output moved higher simultaneously.

04-27-2020 16:59:13

Acrylonitrile market weaken on global epidemic

The international acrylonitrile market was weak mainly due to the dim demand caused by global epidemic.

03-27-2020 08:34:17

China MX prices record new low on gloomy global economy

Shandong (JLC), March 23, 2020--China’s mixed xylene (MX) prices hit a new low as worldwide spread of virus and crashed crude futures prices resulted in turbulent financial market globally.

03-23-2020 13:56:18

China’s chemicals suffer great shock from global economy turmoil

Shandong (JLC), March 16, 2020--China’s overall chemical market was strongly hit by the turbulent economy in the world as the halt of global stocks contributed to plunges in energy and chemical markets and the global trade liquidity has slowed sharply resulting from worldwide virus spread.

03-16-2020 15:24:12

Global propylene market forecast in 2020 (Part II)

Shandong (JLC), December 17, 2019--The global propylene market will show different trends in different areas in 2020.

12-17-2019 14:13:08

Global propylene market forecast in 2020 (Part I)

Shandong (JLC), December 17, 2019--The global propylene market will show different trends in different areas in 2020.

12-17-2019 14:05:51

Global methanol market suffers pressure from geopolitics and weak demand (Part II)

Shandong (JLC), October 30, 2019--Since 2018, the global methanol market has been suffering pressure from geopolitics, declines in China’s MTO unit operating rates and declines in the demand from China’s methanol fuel industry.

10-30-2019 14:18:00

Global methanol market suffers pressure from geopolitics and weak demand (Part I)

Shandong (JLC), October 30, 2019--Since 2018, the global methanol market has been suffering pressure from geopolitics, declines in China’s MTO unit operating rates and declines in the demand from China’s methanol fuel industry.

10-30-2019 14:14:54

Global methanol prices rise over varied factors (Part II)

Shandong (JLC), October 8, 2019--Methanol prices in China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the US rebounded in September, especially rose greatly around mid-September. However, reasons of price rises in these areas were varied.

10-08-2019 15:43:39

Global methanol prices rise over varied factors (Part I)

Shandong (JLC), October 8, 2019--Methanol prices in China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the US rebounded in September, especially rose greatly around mid-September. However, reasons of price rises in these areas were varied.

10-08-2019 15:41:04

Global arbitrage analysis in toluene market

Shandong (JLC), August 7, 2019--The arbitrage window of toluene between the US and Europe or Asia opened completely in July due to high toluene prices in the US caused by robust demand from gasoline blending market.

08-07-2019 16:42:48

Global methanol units review of 2018

Shandong (JLC), December 13, 2018--According to JLC data, up to the end of 2018, the global methanol capacity grew to over 143 million mt/yr, with that in China, Middle East and America accounting for the most, which are abundant in coal and natural gas.

12-13-2018 10:14:31

Global MX arbitrage analysis

The global MX prices vibrated downwards affected by ongoing drops in crude prices, and arbitrage window between Europe and the US and that between the US and Asia changed greatly.

11-15-2018 14:46:21

Global methanol capacity, methanol output, run rate and international methanol companies

In recent ten years, global methanol capacity grows continuously from 44.95 million mt/yr of 2005 to 122.11 million mt/yr of 2015, hitting a 10% annual growth rate. Besides, methanol output totaled 80.49 million mt worldwide in 2015 while run rate of methanol units was only 66%.

03-30-2017 16:57:33

China's hosphate competitiveness weakening with global capacity released intensively

Since 2000, China has begun to change the situation of short supply gradually with phosphate fertilizer capacity being released intensively.

06-21-2016 17:40:31

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