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China methanol units run rates extend gains in Sep

Shandong (JLC), October 17, 2024—The operating rate in the methanol industry continued to rise in September.

10-11-2024 17:58:53

Coke-oven gas-based methanol units run rates go range-bound in early Sep

Shandong (JLC), September 18, 2024—The operating rate of China’s coke-oven gas-based methanol units went range-bound in early September.

09-18-2024 15:20:36

Coal-based methanol units face low profits, despite falling coal prices

Shandong (JLC), May 11, 2023—China’s coal-methanol enterprises mostly suffered from margins losses in January-April, though coal prices continued to fall in the stint.

05-11-2023 17:09:56

Chloroacetic acid units suffer from severe losses on overcapacity

Shandong (JLC), March 20, 2023—China’s chloroacetic acid producers suffered from heavy losses amid rising supply, as partial new units came online.

03-20-2023 17:56:23

Coal-based methanol units face narrower losses on slipping coal prices

Shandong (JLC), March 1, 2023—The margin loss of coal-based methanol units narrowed but the cost pressure lingered.

03-01-2023 17:56:48

China methanol units operating rate up in June

Shandong (JLC), July 11, 2022— The operating rate of China’s methanol units rose by 1.67 percentage points from May to 75.3% in June, following units resumption.

07-11-2022 17:42:50

China methanol imports to gain on higher run rate of Iran units

Shandong (JLC), June 9, 2022—China methanol imports are expected to be 1.1-1.2mln mt afterwards amid higher operating rate of Iran methanol units.

06-09-2022 16:59:56

China methanol units operating rates up in March

Shandong (JLC), April 7, 2022—The operating rate of methanol industry averaged 74.7% in March 2022, up by 2.9 percentage points month on month.

04-07-2022 10:48:11

China methanol units run rate down in Feb

03-08-2022 11:50:48

Melamine units's operating rates up 1.1% over March 9-13

Shandong (JLC), March 13 , 2020--The average operating rate of the domestic melamine plants reached 60.29%, up 1.1% WoW. In this week, the domestic output of melamine was about 24,200 mt, with the average daily output of 3,460 mt.

03-13-2020 17:31:59

Operating rates of ammonium phosphate units to fall

The overall operating rate of MAP units at above-designed companies was relatively stable. But the rising prices of phosphate ore, sulfur, synthetic ammonia and sulfuric acid exerted much pressure on the production cost.

10-11-2018 17:16:13

Operating rates of major compound fertilizer units declines

It is predicted that the operating rates of major fertilizer units will vibrate downwards. Attention should be paid to the pro-environment supervision, advance orders of producers and feedstock market.

09-26-2018 17:43:28

Ammonium phosphate units see low run rates in off-peak season

The overall operating rate of MAP units declined currently amid slack demand and expectations of pro-environment supervision from mid-April. Operating rates of large-scale MAP plants around Hubei areas were around 40% while small-scale ones generally stayed shut-down.

04-23-2018 17:47:31

JLC urea units production status analysis (Nov 11th-Nov 17th, 2017)

According to JLC’s data, the average run rate of China urea units was 58.36%, up 0.29% WoW and up 3.02% YoY. On November 17th, the run rate was around 58.23%, down 1.74% from November 6th.

11-21-2017 18:18:44

JLC sulfur units run rate analysis (Nov 11th-Nov 17th, 2017)

The run rate of China sulfur units increased slightly to 75% in the week ended November 17th.

11-21-2017 18:13:39

Run rates of compound fertilizer units stayed low recently

From mid-to-late October, the run rate of compound fertilizer units decreased noticeably due to the load cut and maintenance. According to JLC’s data, up to November 3rd, the run rate of compound fertilizer units averaged 36%, down nearly 10 percentage points from early October.

11-10-2017 18:03:13

Run rates of Shandong compound fertilizer units declined

Generally speaking, the compound fertilizer companies generally hold high run rates for the coming peak season in July-September. However, the run rate declined in August,

08-23-2017 18:23:08

Analysis of sulfur units’ run rates (Aug 5th-11th, 2017)

This week over August 7th-11th, China sulfur output declined as a whole as most refineries preferred low-sulfur crude oil, though the sulfur daily output of Sinopec Puguang Gasfield stayed around 4,000 mt, a relatively high level.

08-16-2017 17:41:24

Analysis of China urea units’ run rates (Aug 5th-11th, 2017)

This week, China urea run rate increased somewhat. Up to August 11th, the daily run rate of China urea units was 60.44%, up 1.09% from August 4th.

08-16-2017 17:39:30

Analysis of phosphate fertilizer units’ run rates

The overall run rate of China MAP units averaged 58% in the March 11th-17th period, same with that in the previous week. Recently, some small scaled companies had maintenance plan.

03-21-2017 16:33:04

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