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China EVA supply climb in Aug with most plants running normally

Shandong (JLC), October 17, 2023--According to JLC, the domestic supply of EVA in August 2023 was 185,000 mt, an increase of 16.3% year-on-year and a decrease of 9.3% month on month.

10-17-2023 16:35:00

Chloroacetic acid plants get positive profit on lower cost, tighter supply

China chloroacetic acid producers got positive profit in mid-June 2022 after long-term losses, JLC statistics showed.

06-16-2022 17:55:46

PP plants take intensive maintenance in May

Shandong (JLC), April 24, 2021--On the whole, it is expected that the pessimistic atmosphere will remain in the market in the first ten days of May, and PP market price will rebound in mid-to-late May

04-24-2022 16:13:00

Operating rate of hydrogenated benzene plants stays low on price falls

11-23-2021 18:06:22

Four new ECH plants to come online in 2021

China will put four new epichlorohydrin (ECH) plants into production in 2021, which will result in overcapacity in China ECH industry, according to JLC.

01-25-2021 10:41:36

Fiber-grade PET chip plants to continue suffering losses in Sept

China fiber-grade PET chip companies ran at a loss in August, and the situation will continue amid weak demand and low prices in September unless demand surges more than expected, according to industry sources

09-02-2020 17:24:04

Operation rates at Chinese MEG plants fall

The operation rates at Chinese MEG plants slide in the week ended July 30, as local producers slightly reduced running rates at both oil-based and methanol-based MEG units.

08-04-2020 11:36:48

PTA prices inch up due to unit maintenance in big plants

The 2,200,000 mt/yr PTA unit at Hengli Petrochemical, the main production plants of PTA, was scheduled to undergo 15-day maintenance in mid-September, which boosted the market directly.

09-05-2019 17:01:23

OX-based PA plants suffer heavy losses in H1 2019

Shandong (JLC), June 24, 2019--The profits of OX-based phthalic anhydride (PA) producers averaged minus CNY277/mt in the first half of this year, as China PA prices kept falling amid persistently weak demand.

06-24-2019 14:43:33

OX plants’ price cuts fail to save downstream losses

China’s state-owned Sinopec planned to lower listing prices of ortho-xylene (OX) by CNY300/mt to CNY5,900/mt on June 7, but this did not pull OX downstream producers from losses, according to JLC research.

06-06-2019 17:34:17

Coal-based MEG plants eye improved utilization rates

Shandong (JLC), May 29, 2019--Utilization rates in China coal-based MEG industry increased slightly to 55% on May 28 as some idled units restarted gradually with drops in MEG prices slowed down.

05-29-2019 11:24:00

China ammonium phosphate plants get more profits from export market

China ammonium phosphate market sufferd a lot recently, but the export trading provided more profits compared with the domestic transactions.

05-22-2019 17:41:54

Two methanol plants in America to come onstream in 2019

Shandong (JLC), January 28, 2019--Two methanol plants in America will come onstream in the second half of 2019, with one in the U.S. and the other in Trinidad and Tobago.

01-28-2019 16:36:24

Operation Suggestions to PE Manufacturers, Traders and Downstream Plants

For downstream plants, it will be better for them to maintain low inventory level and purchase on a need-to basis. Since the PE capacity will increase in 2019, this will provide ample PE resources to the downstream plants.

01-09-2019 17:18:47

Slumps in styrene prices narrow plants’ profits

Shandong (JLC), October 25, 2018--On October 24, the theoretical profits of styrene plants retreated to CNY1,185/mt as styrene prices plunged.

10-25-2018 17:21:08

2017 China styrene plants’ production status analysis

12-01-2017 17:39:51

Stabilizing methanol price is urgent for plants after it plunged

After moving downward from H2 February to H2 March, methanol price fell again from middle April as spring maintenance weakened. It should be noted that methanol price in inland market fell greater than that at ports and methanol price drop sped.

05-15-2017 17:00:26

All methanol plants in Hebei Province restrain production

11-29-2016 14:31:04

Which aromatics plants will suspend production during G20?

Which aromatics plants will suspend or control production during G20? How long they will last? And how they will affect domestic aromatics market? These questions are what many enterprises and traders are concerning.

06-22-2016 10:42:34

Analysis on operating rate of China PTA plants in 2014-2015

In the past few years, because of the strong growth in downstream polyester demand and polyester plants with total capacity higher than that of PTA plants, operating rate of PTA plants has been very high.

12-24-2015 10:07:35

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