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Spreads btw methanol spot and futures prices strengthen in South China

Shandong (JLC), September 9, 2024—The price spread between methanol spot and futures in South China gradually widened since August 28.

09-09-2024 17:42:00

China methanol prices rise in line with stronger futures

Shandong (JLC), April 22, 2024—China’s methanol prices increased on the back of rising futures prices and healthy fundamentals.

04-22-2024 17:20:53

Air pollution undermines methanol industrial chain operations

Shandong (JLC), December 28, 2023—The severe air pollution weighed on the operating rate of methanol units in Hebei, Henan and Shandong, as well as its downstream sectors.

12-28-2023 17:02:51

Port methanol market turns stronger on bullish factors

Shandong (JLC), August 22, 2023—China methanol prices at ports were higher than prices in inland regions amid bullish macro policies, firm cost support and healthy fundamentals.

08-22-2023 14:48:04

Methanol industry chain prices mix in early March

Shandong (JLC), March 15, 2023—Methanol industry chain products prices were mixed in March, among which, the prices of methanol diversified by regions and those of most downstream products declined, e

03-15-2023 17:49:03

China methanol industry chain prices diversify in early Feb

Shandong (JLC), February 14, 2023—Methanol industry chain prices declined by 0.41%-17.69% from end-January, except for MTBE and BDO prices.

02-14-2023 17:09:24

China glacial acetic acid downstream consumption structure sees slight changes

Shandong (JLC), January 31, 2023--In 2022, China’s glacial acetic acid consumption structure saw slight changes.

01-31-2023 17:01:00

Methanol industry chain market slack in H1 Aug

Shandong (JLC), August 16, 2022--Methanol industry chain market presented lackluster in the first half of August, largely dragged by dim methanol market.

08-16-2022 16:22:10

China methanol industry chain capacity growth diversifies in H1 2022

Shandong (JLC), July 21, 2022—The capacity growth of methanol industry chain diversified in the first half of 2022, among which the capacity of acetic acid, BDO, olefin, vinyl acetate, formaldehyde an

07-26-2022 08:51:57

Operating rate in China methanol industry falls on shutdown, maintenance

The operating rate in China methanol industry decreased after rising in June. On June 21, the overall operating rate was 74.63%.

06-22-2022 15:44:02

China methanol freights up on higher cost and strong demand

Shandong (JLC), June 21, 2022—China methanol freights picked up since late May amid rising crude oil prices and rallied downstream demand.

06-21-2022 11:55:48

China to continue restrict urea export

Shandong (JLC), December 29, 2021--China’s urea exports have been decreasing month by month since September 2021 on national restrictions on fertilizer export, and there is little possibility to liberalise exports in the future due to domestic fertilizer winter storage.

12-29-2021 17:19:36

Recent urea downstream markets analysis

Shandong (JLC), November 19, 2021--Persistent slumps in urea market didn’t spur downstream buying interest, as downstream industrial and agricultural markets were weak as a whole.

11-19-2021 14:28:30

China urea price to go down on weak fundamentals, export obstruction

Shandong (JLC), November 15, 2021--Domestic urea market prices are likely to go down in the near future amid weak fundamentals, and export obstruction.

11-15-2021 16:32:24

China melamine industry operating rates down 0.68% on week

Shandong (JLC), April 20, 2021--The average operating rate in the domestic melamine industry read 68.82% in the week over April 10-16, down 0.68 percentage points week on week.

04-20-2021 16:31:53

China potash fertilizer market stays strong on mixed factors

Shandong (JLC), March 25, 2021--China’s potash fertilizer prices remained firm, including potassium chloride prices and potassium sulfate prices.

03-25-2021 15:31:04

China’s synthetic ammonia market rebounds on tighter supply, industrial demand

China’s synthetic ammonia market rebounded on March 4, due to the decreased supply from Henan Province and the increased demand from downstream caprolactam (CPL) market, though the synthetic ammonia prices decreased amid weaker demand and higher supply at the very beginning of March.

03-05-2021 17:53:05

Belarusian strike exerts little impact on China potash fertilizer market

Domestic potash production is normal, and the Belarusian strike has little impact on the domestic potash fertilizer market in the short term.

08-18-2020 17:28:26

Synthetic ammonia price probably to fall on downstream unit turnarounds

Shandong (JLC), June 17, 2020--China’s synthetic ammonia market prices may stop rising and probably decline as downstream units will undergo maintenance, contributing to more synthetic ammonia flowing into the market.

06-17-2020 17:14:12

Urea market to decline amid weak downstream demand

Shandong (JLC), April 2, 2020--China’s urea market consecutively dropped recently after the soar for a period before. Up to April 1, China’s urea market price averaged CNY1,741/mt, down 2.19% against that in the beginning of March.

04-02-2020 10:18:59

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