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Social and enterprise methanol stocks dip ahead of holiday

Shandong (JLC), April 28, 2025—China’s methanol social and enterprise inventory declined, while downstream feedstock inventory rose.

04-28-2025 10:57:23

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

E China port methanol price spreads rise on tightening supply

Shandong (JLC), May 14, 2024—The price spread between methanol spot and futures strengthened in East China amid lower port stocks and tighter spot liquidity.

05-14-2024 17:08:12

The price spread btw port methanol spot and futures widens

Shandong (JLC), February 29, 2024—The price spread between methanol spot and futures remained relatively strong amid low stocks and imports.

02-29-2024 17:56:01

Ningxia announces consumption tax on MTBE in trading sector

Guangzhou (JLC), December 29, 2023--Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in Northwest China announced that consumption tax should be levied on traded crude oil, MTBE, xylene and toluene.

12-29-2023 18:16:04

China glacial acetic acid prices gain on output cuts and steady demand

Shandong (JLC), November 28, 2023—China glacial acetic acid prices sustained the uptrend amid supply shortage and robust demand.

11-28-2023 17:30:30

China adds 3.1 mln mt MeOH capacity in Jan-May 2023

China brings online 3.1 mln mt/yr new methanol projects in Jan-May 2023, raising China methanol capacity to 102.415 mln mt/yr in total.

06-07-2023 15:54:27

The price spread btw methanol spot and futures widens

Shandong (JLC), May 31, 2023—China’s methanol prices fell after a small uptick, and the spread between methanol spot and MA2309 futures prices widened.

05-31-2023 17:32:34

Port methanol inventory falls on fewer shiploads arrivals

Shandong (JLC), November 28, 2022—The inventory of methanol at main ports in East China and South China totaled 334,400 mt on November 24, 2022, down by 57% from early July.

11-28-2022 17:26:27

China newly-added methanol capacity lower on year

Shandong (JLC), October 13, 2022--The newly-added methanol capacity in past days of the year was lower on a year-on-year comparison, largely constrained by coal shortage.

10-13-2022 15:09:22

China methanol inventory falls on fewer shiploads arrivals

Shandong (JLC), August 5, 2022—China’s methanol inventory declined in early August as ports shiploads arrivals decreased month on month and inventory days of producers fell as well.

08-05-2022 08:18:50

Methanol price spread seesaws in Guangdong

Shandong (JLC), June 21, 2022-- The price spread between Guangdong methanol spots and MA2209 futures (to be delivered in September 2022) fluctuated since late April amid bullish macro outlook against

06-21-2022 17:22:28

Methanol price spread keeps firm in Guangdong

Shandong (JLC)—April 19, 2022—China ports methanol prices went range-bound in April and the price spread between spots and MA2205 (to be delivered in May 2022) maintained strong.

04-19-2022 11:57:33

Caustic soda prices fall on weak trading

The caustic soda price fell as the demand weakened affected by the falling operating rates of downstream plants.

11-30-2021 18:10:08

China’s synthetic ammonia prices extend high broadly on short supply

Shandong (JLC), March 25, 2021--Domestic synthetic ammonia market price was on the rise after the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, crucially due to ongoing supply tightness and partly because of the demand from spring farming.

03-25-2021 17:15:01

Trading atmosphere improves in compound fertilizer market

Currently, the trading atmosphere in China compound fertilizer market improved underpinned by multiple factors. Some producers increased their offers accordingly, though there were limited order increases. The compound fertilizer market were likely to strengthen in the short run.

02-19-2020 18:18:56

Trading atmosphere to improve in Dec fertilizer market

The market atmosphere is unstable for the moment, and the wait-and-see sentiment will keep strong. If feedstock prices could stabilize in the future, the fertilizer market will get more support, and this will make the market atmosphere improve.

11-29-2019 11:33:10

Bad demand weighs on ammonium chloride market

In the previous stages, the ammonium chloride price increased while prices of chemical fertilizer products generally declined. Currently, the prevailing trading price of ammonium chloride declined somewhat though urea prices rebounded.

09-12-2019 10:19:14

Fertilizer trading volume increases in March

04-11-2019 18:17:10

Melamine trades to fail to follow uptrend in offers

After the Chinese New Year holiday, the melamine price kept a downtrend, and the prevailing price almost reached CNY7,000/mt. Most participants thought the bottom had appeared. However, the downstream demand kept slack, and some producers cut their offers further for easing the inventory pressure.

04-25-2018 17:55:36

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