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Synthetic rubber market hardly to continue rebounding

Shandong (JLC), April 17, 2020--China’s SBR and polybutadiene market rebounded recently, but the upward trend can hardly be persistent amid weak downstream demand and falling butadiene prices.

04-17-2020 16:19:09

The U.S.-Iran conflict hardly influences polybutadiene import

Shandong (JLC), January 16, 2020--China’s polybutadiene market was not affected by the U.S.-Iran conflict amid domestic low polybutadiene imports and exports from and to the U.S. and Iran.

01-16-2020 10:58:03

SBR market can hardly rise in Jan amid stable supply

Shandong (JLC), January 9, 2020-- There were 11 ESBR producers in China in December 2019, including 2 producers in North China, 4 producers in East China，2 producers in South China, 2 producers in Northeast and a producer in Northwest, with total capacity of 1.47 million mt/yr.

01-09-2020 17:23:42

Carbon black supply hardly to rise

Shandong (JLC), December 18, 2019--Both the supply and demand in the carbon black market decreased in January-November 2019. The carbon black market would be influenced by factors as follows.

12-18-2019 15:02:01

SBS hardly to rebound in Q4 amid oversupply (Part 2)

Shandong (JLC), December 17, 2019--China SBS market price rebounded in various degrees recently after that bottomed out periodically. Most plants were oversold or held low inventory, and main producers controlled supply, leading to the bullish sentiments in the market.

12-17-2019 15:20:46

SBS hardly to rebound in Q4 amid oversupply (Part 1)

Shandong (JLC), December 17, 2019--China SBS market price rebounded in various degrees recently after that bottomed out periodically. Most plants were oversold or held low inventory, and main producers controlled supply, leading to the bullish sentiments in the market.

12-17-2019 15:15:56

Tire operating rate hardly rises amid heavy pollution

Shandong (JLC), October 31, 2019--The overall operating rates of tire industry were low till October 8.

10-31-2019 08:21:20

Carbon black price hard to rise on weak demand

China’s carbon black producers intended to raise prices during the National Day holiday (October 1-7, 2019). However, the carbon black price could hardly rise due to limited downstream demand.

10-10-2019 16:53:56

SBR prices hardly rise on weak demand

Shandong (JLC), August 14, 2019--The SBR market was slack amid decreasing demand as some downstream tire plants had to shut down affected by the typhoon “Lekima” despite the high feedstock butadiene prices.

08-14-2019 17:38:16

Oil-extended SBS prices will hardly drop

Sinopec and PetroChina’s oil-extended SBS prices were stable at CNY 11,500-11,600/mt, which was at break-even point, and oil-extended could hardly decrease further.

03-01-2019 16:55:20

MEG: Hard to find breakthroughs

The launch of the MEG futures will bring speculation opportunities and the G20 summit and the OPEC meeting might bring some good news for the fringe market. Thus, China’s MEG price is expected to first sustain range-bound in the short run.

11-28-2018 14:10:00

Hard price rebounding for SHFE NR futures

SHFE NR futures price, shiploads to be delivered in September, kept hitting record highs and then dived down in the past two working days due to lack of promoted supply-demand fundamentals.

05-23-2017 16:48:25

HDPE injection price can hardly move up in January 2017 after the great slump in December

According to JLC, the quotation of HDPE injection grades in the Pearl River Delta region declined greatly on December 23rd,

12-27-2016 10:48:48

Plastic market is hard to see improvements in September and October

"There is no Golden September and Silver October!” and “Plastic market has no peak season at all.” are the words mostly heard from the dealers recently.

09-27-2016 10:19:26

SBR market hard to turn optimistic amid bearish factors

Since the growth in late February, SBR price continued surging high with SBR 1502 reaching CNY12,900/mt(in Shandong, Qilu 1502).

05-26-2016 17:32:37

Slack season of polyester industry is coming; MEG market is hard to be prosperous

Data show that in May 9th-May 13th, China MEG price was low. On May 9th, MEG offer of domestic dealers averaged CNY5,166/mt. On May 13th, MEG offer of domestic dealers was CNY5,103/mt, down by 1.23%. Taking three months as a period, MEG price grew by 8.58% generally.

05-16-2016 17:32:38

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