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China’s bottle-grade PET exports decline on month in Jan

Shandong (JLC), March 26, 2025--China’s bottle-grade PET exports totaled 421,626.4 mt in January 2025, a 31.86% decrease on month but a 7.94% increase compared to the same period last year.

03-26-2025 17:47:24

Fiber-grade PET capacity up on year

Shandong (JLC), October 29, 2024--The total capacity of fiber-grade PET increased as of September on a year-on-year comparison, on account of rising demand from film industry.

10-29-2024 14:04:59

China's ZCE launches bottle-grade PET futures contracts

Guangzhou (JLC), September 13, 2024 – China's Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) officially launched the trade of bottle-grade polyester (PET) resin futures contracts on August 30.

09-13-2024 18:14:13

Newly-added PFY capacity totals 4.12 mln mt in 2023

Shandong (JLC), October 25, 2023--Polyester filament yarn (PFY) industry witnessed a fast expansion in the year when producers including Jiangsu Hengyang Chemical and Fiber and Jiangsu Xintuo New Mate

10-25-2023 16:49:14

China adds 2.86 mln PFY capacity in Jan-May 2023

Shandong (JLC), June 13, 2023--China has brought 2.86 million mt/yr of newly-added polyester filament yarn (PFY) units online from January to May 2023, rising by 128.8% year on year, JLC data shows.

06-13-2023 13:53:36

China’s Exchange to adopt JLC assessments for new methanol swaps

China’s Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) has decided to adopt methanol spot price assessed by JLC as the settlement for its upcoming methanol swaps.

09-02-2021 15:43:51

Normal butanol-octanol spread turns very narrow on price changes

Shandong (JLC), March 19, 2021--The price spread between normal butanol and octanol retreated to a very narrow territory as prices of the two products were nearly the same in the week ended March 19.

03-19-2021 17:26:26

Methanol price rebounds on narrowed spread between east and west inland markets

The methanol market price in China’s inland market rebounded slightly in end-July after recorded a new low, as the production cost and unit maintenance both supported the market.

08-11-2020 17:35:56

Additional capacity to weigh down on China’s PP price

China’s rapidly growing PP capacity is to put downward pressure on local PP prices later this year

07-13-2020 17:41:16

Methanol flows backwards to inland due to price spread

Shandong (JLC), October 22, 2019--Methanol has been flowing backwards from ports to inland recently as methanol prices in inland were firm while those at ports were lower affected by fallen futures prices.

10-22-2019 14:15:04

China’s new energy automobile sales rise steadily

Shandong (JLC), June 20, 2019--According to data from China Association of Automobile Manufacturers published on June 12, output and sales of new energy automobile in May reached 112,100 units and 104,400 units, up 16.91% and 1.8% YoY, respectively.

06-20-2019 11:44:21

Guangdong methanol prices read higher amid declined inventory

Shandong (JLC), May 24, 2019--Methanol prices in Guangdong read higher than those in Jiangsu since mid-to-late April as port inventory declined greatly.

05-24-2019 11:51:01

Escalated Sino-US trade friction to impact methanol and chemical fiber industry

Shandong (JLC), May 21, 2019--The Sino-US trade friction escalated recently, which would impact China’s methanol and chemical fiber industry.

05-21-2019 14:03:10

International methanol trade analysis

Shandong (JLC), February 18, 2019--Trends of international methanol trade will remain stable in the short run, but will be greatly affected by rising supply in the US, trade flow from South America and rising demand in Southeast Asia.

02-18-2019 13:47:55

Methanol futures-spot spread widens

Shandong (JLC), February 15, 2019--Spread between methanol spot and futures prices expanded as futures prices rose but spot prices failed to rise.

02-15-2019 16:31:03

Methanol prices to go range-bound amid flat trading atmosphere

Shandong (JLC), February 13, 2019--China methanol prices will go range-bound in the short run amid flat trading atmosphere.

02-13-2019 16:54:06

Methanol fuel: Ready for comprehensive promotion (Part II)

Shandong (JLC), December 21, 2018--Promoting the development of methanol fuel not only can resolve the energy shortage problem faced by China fundamentally, but also can produce favorable social benefits.

12-21-2018 14:16:42

Methanol fuel: Ready for comprehensive promotion (Part I)

Shandong (JLC), December 21, 2018--Promoting the development of methanol fuel not only can resolve the energy shortage problem faced by China fundamentally, but also can produce favorable social benefits, said Huang fenglin.

12-21-2018 13:47:35

China methanol capacity read 85 mln mt in 2018, inspections become tougher

Shandong (JLC), December 12, 2018--Up to Nov 30, China methanol capacity rose by 5.46% to 84.775 million mt/yr in 2018.

12-12-2018 08:17:03

Xi'an sets up a leading team to push methanol-fueled cars development

It is heard from Xi'an Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that Xi'an would make policies to push the methanol-fueled cars to develop.

11-30-2018 08:59:55

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