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Caprolactam prices show ups and downs in April

Shandong (JLC), May 10, 2024--Caprolactam prices increased in early April, thanks to tightened supply, but moved lower as from the middle of April pressured by weak fundamentals.

05-10-2024 17:15:00

Caprolactam prices up due to tightened supply

Shandong (JLC), April 24, 2024--Caprolactam prices extended an uptrend in late April, arising from tightened supply, as more units underwent turnarounds.

04-24-2024 09:54:42

Caprolactam market firm in Aug on tight supply, cost support

Shandong (JLC), September 11, 2023--Caprolactam prices increased on the whole in August, arising from cost support jointly with tight supply.

09-11-2023 17:05:58

Caprolactam prices keep rising on tightened supply, cost support

Shandong (JLC), August 14, 2023--Caprolactam prices continued to rise in early August, as the product supply was tight, and feedstock benzene prices moved higher.

08-14-2023 15:46:11

China caprolactam prices sustain fluctuations at high prices in Q1 2023

Shandong (JLC), April 7, 2023--In the first quarter of 2023 (Q1 2023), China's caprolactam prices went range-bound at high prices.

04-07-2023 18:45:00

China caprolactam prices keep high in H1 2022

Shandong (JLC), July 21, 2022--China’s caprolactam market prices kept high in the first half of 2022 due to high cost.

07-21-2022 10:00:44

China caprolactam prices rebound on tight supply, high cost

Shandong (JLC), July 13, 2022--Domestic caprolactam market prices ceased falling and rebounded, benefiting from tightened supply and high cost.

07-13-2022 16:32:32

China caprolactam prices drop without cost, demand supports

Shandong (JLC), June 20, 2022--Domestic caprolactam market prices have dropped recently, in lack of cost and demand support.

06-20-2022 17:17:00

China’s first caprolactam-fed HMDA unit comes online

Shandong (JLC), May 11, 2022--Ningxia Ruitai Technology brought online its new nylon66 material project on May 5, marking the start-up of China’s first caprolactam-fed hexamethylenediamine (HMDA) uni

05-11-2022 16:58:21

China caprolactam market review in 2021

Shandong (JLC), January 13, 2022--China caprolactam market prices spiraled upwards in 2021. As of December, the annual liquid caprolactam market price in East China averaged CNY13,880/mt, with an increase of 39.98% versus previous year’s CNY9,916/mt.

01-13-2022 16:44:06

Lunan Chemical achieves on-spec caprolactam product in end-Oct

Shandong (JLC), November 9, 2021--Lunan Chemical under Shandong Yankuang Group achieved on-specification products at its caprolactam plant on October 31, marking further expansion of the company’s new chemical material sector and extension of the industry chain, market sources said.

11-09-2021 16:47:04

Hualu-Hengsheng brings online its caprolactam unit in Oct

Shandong (JLC), October 14, 2021--Shandong Hualu-Hengsheng Chemical (hereinafter referred to as Hualu-Hengsheng) in Dezhou, Shandong put its caprolactam and matching units into operation in October, according to news posted on the company’s website.

10-14-2021 14:55:02

Caprolactam production margins may drop in Q4

Shandong (JLC), October 11, 2021--Production margins of caprolactam will possibly do down in the fourth quarter as the product prices will decline further amid start-up of newly-added units, while feedstock benzene prices may move sideways.

10-11-2021 17:21:17

Caprolactam prices rise amid tight supply

Shandong (JLC), May 13, 2020--China caprolactam prices moved up after Labor Day holiday (May 1-5) amid tightened supply as well as upward feedstock benzene market.

05-13-2020 15:07:54

Caprolactam prices rebound on upward feedstock market

Caprolactam market picked up from April 6 as upstream benzene prices moved up stimulated by rising crude futures prices and the market supply dropped amid increasing unit turnarounds.

04-09-2020 10:46:34

Caprolactam industry develops healthy amid increasing demand

Shandong (JLC), July 26, 2019--Caprolactam industry developed healthy as the demand from downstream chinlon chips industry continuously increased.

07-26-2019 08:11:55

Caprolactam prices go range-bound amid wait-and-see sentiments

Shandong (JLC), March 13, 2019--China caprolactam prices went range-bound recently amid wait-and-see sentiments, as Sinopec raised listing prices but supply was ample and downstream demand weakened.

03-13-2019 16:11:39

Highsun to become the world's largest caprolactam and ammonium sulfate supplier

For a long time, caprolactam was monopolized by several international chemical giants, and the domestic market basically relied on imports. Thus, the import dependence rate was as high as 70% in China.

05-23-2018 17:13:40

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