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Acrylonitrile prices hit the bottom on supply surge

Shandong (JLC), Jun 20, 2024—The restart of acrylonitrile units resulted in increased supply, leading to a rapid decline in acrylonitrile prices.

06-20-2024 17:38:35

China PTA exports surge in March

Shandong (JLC), April 25, 2024--In March, China PTA export totaled 457.2kt, up by 237.1kt month on month. China PTA import hit 0.6kt, down by 2.3kt MoM.

04-25-2024 14:55:35

China H1 PTA imports surge but exports fall on year

Shandong (JLC), July 26, 2023— In the first half of 2023, China’s PTA imports soared but exports fell from the same period last year.

07-26-2023 17:29:49

China PTA exports surge 54.11% in 1H 2022 on domestic oversupply

Shandong (JLC), July 28, 2022--During January-June 2022, domestic PTA exports were around 2.0592 mln mt, with a year-on-year growth of 723,000 mt or 54.11%, broadly owing to the oversupply of PTA in C

07-28-2022 14:59:39

China PET bottle chip exports surge 36.04% in 2021

Shandong (JLC), February 16, 2022--China PET bottle chip exports moved higher in 2021, especially in the fourth quarter when foreign product supply tightened amid turnarounds and export prices were h

02-16-2022 17:24:29

China’s methanol prices surge on tightened supply

SShandong (JLC), October 13, 2021--Methanol prices in most regions of China moved higher in October, largely because of tightened supply as the government’s “dual control”policy and power rationing forced more producers to cut run rates or suspend production.

10-13-2021 15:42:59

S Shandong methanol prices surge on feedstock shortage

Methanol prices in the south of Shandong province have surge this month, because of short supply of feedstock coke-oven gas in the local market and high methanol prices in surrounding markets.

09-17-2021 17:12:13

China’s methanol exports surge in Q1

Shandong (JLC), April 27, 2021--China’s methanol exports jumped in the first quarter of the year, largely because of the open of arbitrage window between domestic and foreign market.

04-27-2021 10:11:34

China MMA price surges after the holiday

As of February 18, the first working day after the Chinese New Year holiday, China’s MMA price closed at CNY13,250/mt, up by 10.4% from February 10, JLC data shows. The price rise was attributed to limited supply caused by intensive maintenance and large export demand.

02-18-2021 16:52:53

China’s methanol prices surge in Q4

Methanol prices rebounded greatly in the fourth quarter of this year boosted by strong international market and favorable fundamental in domestic market.

12-15-2020 17:33:36

China butyl acetate price surges on cost support, tight supply

The price of butyl acetate in China increased by 25%-30% in 20 days from early November, especially in the Shandong market, and is still on an uptrend because of tight supply and increasing feedstock cost, JLC’s data shows.

11-24-2020 16:25:21

Propylene glycol prices may inch up on surged crude

Shandong (JLC), September 18, 2019--Propylene glycol prices are expected to edge up in the rest of September due to surges in crude prices and expectations of growing demand.

09-19-2019 17:22:12

Formaldehyde prices surge amid tight supply

Shandong (JLC), March 28, 2019--Domestic formaldehyde prices rose greatly in late March amid tight supply as stricter safety inspections caused by blast in Jiangsu hampered utilization rate in Shandong, Northern Jiangsu and Xinjiang.

03-28-2019 14:36:21

China BPA demand to surge on new PC projects

China’s BPA (bisphenol A) demand is to enlarge noticeably in the following three years, especially in 2019, with a number of downstream PC (polycarbonate) projects, to be put into production that year, according to JLC monitoring.

01-25-2019 16:54:03

Methanol price surge against the Sino-US trade war

US still has plan to put into methanol units into operation, with the total capacity around 3.5-4.5 million mt/yr. Since China is the major methanol consumer in the world, thus more US methanol will be sold to China in the future.

08-08-2018 10:02:11

Sudden Surge in PP Market

On December 15, domestic polypropylene market witnessed an unexpected surge, going up by CNY100/mt, within one day after two-week continuous drop, resulting in active transactions.

12-17-2014 10:01:26

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