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Styrene unit shutdowns fail to boost S China market

Shandong (JLC), May 30, 2023--Styrene market in south China remained lukewarm in late May due to high inventory and dim demand, though unit shutdowns tightened the product supply temporarily.

05-30-2023 08:29:16

PTA prices continue to grow on unit shutdowns

Shandong (JLC), December 14, 2022—China’s PTA prices have shown an uptrend since December 8 amid short supply.

12-14-2022 15:01:39

YNCC’s No.1 unit shutdown to push up propylene price

Shandong (JLC), February 24, 2022--YNCC's No.1 cracker shutdown in South Korea might tighten the propylene supply further in Northeast Asia, which would push up propylene price greatly.

02-24-2022 16:15:15

China' TDI prices inch up on unit shutdown plans

Shandong (JLC), December 9, 2021--China’s toluene diisocyanate (TDI) market prices inched up in recent days, driven up by the news that TDI plants at Wanhua Chemical (Fujian) and Shanghai Covestro would shut down.

12-10-2021 16:52:42

China's Nov methanol run rate down on unit shutdown

Shandong (JLC), December 8, 2021--Operating rates of domestic methanol producers dropped in November, as some units in Southwest China suspended operation in end-November.

12-08-2021 14:12:03

China’s melamine operating rates down on unit shutdowns

Shandong (JLC), December 28, 2020--The average operating rate of the domestic melamine plants read 67.42% in the week over December 19-25, down 2.70 percentage points week on week, due to some unit shutdowns.

12-28-2020 17:15:48

China’s melamine operating rates down on unit shutdowns

Shandong (JLC), December 22, 2020--The average operating rate of the domestic melamine plants read 70.12%, down 4.40 percentage points week on week, due to some unit shutdowns.

12-22-2020 17:23:50

China’s urea operating rates down on unit shutdowns

Shandong (JLC), December 22, 2020--In the week over December 12-18, the weekly average operating rate was 59.42%, down 6.52 percentage points week on week but and down 1.16 percentage points year on year, due to unit shutdowns at a couple of urea enterprises.

12-22-2020 17:12:28

Hebei methanol unit operating rate down amid shutdowns

Hebei-based methanol producers’ operating rate dropped after the Labor Day holiday amid unit shutdowns.

05-18-2020 14:07:54

MMA unit shutdown list caused by logistics ban

The operating rate of China MMA market was low at 47.78% as of February 10, 2020. This low operating rate was caused by the logistics ban triggered by the new coronavirus. Many MMA plants reduced operating rates or shut down to cope with the new coronavirus.

02-10-2020 16:34:33

China Propylene Industrail Chain Unit Shutdown List

Recently affected by the new coronavirus, it is diffcult for the delivery of all petrochemical products due to logistics ban. Most petrochemical plants faced high inventory pressure. Many propylene and downstream plants reduced operating rate or shut down to cope with this.

02-05-2020 20:06:41

Sichuan and Chongqing methanol market boosted by unit shutdown (Part II)

Shandong (JLC), December 9, 2019-- Methanol market in Sichuan, Chongqing and Guangxi turned bullish as two major natural-gas-based methanol units in Southwest China were shut down in the night of December 3.

12-09-2019 17:26:35

Sichuan and Chongqing methanol market boosted by unit shutdown (Part I)

Shandong (JLC), December 9, 2019-- Methanol market in Sichuan, Chongqing and Guangxi turned bullish as two major natural-gas-based methanol units in Southwest China were shut down in the night of December 3.

12-09-2019 17:22:41

DMC prices likely to rise amid unit shutdown

Shandong (JLC), August 15, 2019--Dimethyl carbonate (DMC) prices were much likely to rise as some units were shut down to avoid the impacts of extreme weather, leading to further reduction in the supply. Besides, transportation was also hampered.

08-15-2019 14:00:01

HTC's unit shutdown likely to boost styrene market

Shandong (JLC), May 21, 2019--Hanwha Total (HTC)’s styrene unit with a capacity of 1.05 million mt/year undergone turnarounds on May 18, 2019 for oil vapor leakage, which may pull up styrene market in the short term, according to JLC research.

05-21-2019 11:19:05

NG-based methanol units eye shutdown

Shandong (JLC), December 13, 2018--As of December 12, some natural-gas-based methanol units in Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Sichuan and Chongqing halted with capacity involved at around 4 million mt/yr.

12-13-2018 17:17:10

Benzene downstream unit shutdowns in Oct

Entering October, the influences on benzene market from demand side would intensify as some units of downstream products would eye maintenance.

10-08-2018 17:35:09

Intensive shutdown evoked price jump of acrylonitrile

After the beginning of November, domestic acrylonitrile price rebounded by 7% within just 10 days, which exceeded the expectation of market participants.

11-13-2015 17:03:12

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