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Aug PE supply to rise on restart of units

07-31-2024 15:01:59

Analysis of China newly-added PP units in Q1 and Q2 2024

Shandong (JLC), March 27, 2024--The capacity of newly-added PP units in the first quarter (Q1) of 2024 totaled 350kt/yr and that in the second quarter (Q2) of 2024 was estimated to reach 2.45 mln mt/y

03-27-2024 11:50:33

BOPP units see lower profits on weak demand

Shandong (JLC), February 15, 2022—China’s BOPP units profits continued to decline amid sluggish downstream demand.

02-15-2023 14:43:54

More off-line PE units dragged supply further

Shandong (JLC), November 3, 2022--China PE output loss surged in past months this year, as a large number of producers conducted maintenance or cut run rate undermined by very low production margins.

11-09-2022 21:06:39

China PP output loss caused by units maintenance gains in June

Shandong (JLC), June 24, 2022--China PP output loss rose in June since more PP producers undertook maintenance and unexpected shutdown increased due to accidents.

06-24-2022 17:16:33

Run rates of PP powder units low on losses, weak demand

The operating rates of PP powder units in China have decreased to low levels owing to poor demand and losses.

05-10-2022 17:37:53

Four Chinese New PP units to be put into operation in H1 2022

04-21-2022 09:52:00

Two new PP units to start up

Two new PP untis at Fujian Zhangzhou Gulei Refining and Chemical integration Project and Jinneng Science and Technology will come on line soon.

06-17-2021 17:28:14

2.14 mln mt/yr PP units to take maintenance next week

Shandong (JLC), March 19--JLC’s data shows that 5 PP enterprises with a total capacity of 2.14 mln mt/yr will take maintenance next week, including Shaoxing Sanyuan Petrochemical, Dongguan Juzhengyuan Petrochemical, Daqing Refinery, Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical and Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical.

03-19-2021 15:24:50

China’s new EVA units to increase in Q3

Shandong (JLC), June 15, 2020--In the third quarter of this year, some Chinese petrochemical producers such as Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical, Sino-Kuwait Refining and Chemical and Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical will bring their EVA units on stream.

06-15-2020 17:24:32

More PP units to come online in 2020

Shandong (JLC), May 20, 2020--In China, more petrochemical producers will bring their polypropylene (PP) units onstream in the following months of this year.

05-20-2020 17:08:43

India prolongs lockdown period, many chemical companies shut units down

In the morning of April 14, India government published a new order for prolonging the nationwide lockdown period to May 3. Many India-based chemical companies shut units down for the lack of labor.

04-21-2020 10:39:25

Large-capacity PE units to influence the market

In January 2020, Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical (ZPC) put the capacity-expanded unit into operation. After this 750,000 mt/yr unit went into production officially, the PE capacity in East China surpassed that in South China or Northeast China and became the second in China.

03-31-2020 17:31:00

PVC downstream units run at low operating rates

Shandong (JLC)-February 27, 2020--China PVC downstream plants has resumed operation in succession, but they maintained low operating rates restricted by weak demand from end-users and a small number of employees.

02-27-2020 14:27:41

Restart of some BOPP film units delayed

China central government permitted the companies to restart the operation and production from February 10. However, the shortage of labor, logistics and transportation and some other factors all restricted many industries.

02-12-2020 23:13:52

South China new PP units progress tracking

The PP consumption volume in South China was huge, and many external resources flowed in the region and helped to fill in the supply shortage. The start-up of new units in South China will held to raise the local supply.

12-26-2019 12:10:48

China’s new PP units to come onstream

According to JLC’s statistics, there are some PP units to go into operation in the first half of 2019.

04-26-2019 18:01:25

Higher profits drive up operating rates of EVA units

In China, the rising profits of EVA plants drove up operating rates of EVA units recently.

03-26-2019 17:24:46

New PE units in 2019

According to the incomplete statistics, the capacity of the nine new PE units to come onstream in 2019 has totaled 4 million mt/yr. Most of these units will produce HDPE and LLDPE according to the known schedule below.

03-05-2019 15:22:14

Production status of Northwest coal-based PP units

The overall operating rate of coal-based PP units in Northwest China was moderate in end-February. PP units remained normal productions excepted units at Datang Duolun and Pucheng Clean Energy Chemical.

03-05-2019 15:19:53

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