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December 30, 2008
CW's Asia Chemical Prices for the Week Ended December 29, 2008
NAPHTHA Naphtha prices in Asia pegged stable to firm - Dec 29, 2008   Crude futures opened firm on Monday in Asia on the back of the weekend attacks by Israel on the Gaza strip...
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December 22, 2008
BASF to Build SB Latex Unit at Chinese Site
BASF plans to construct a styrene butadiene (SB) latex plant at the Dayawan petrochemicals park near Daya Bay, Huizhou, China. The company has signed a heads of agreement with CSPC, an...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/16021.html
December 22, 2008
ABS
Prices U.S.: $1.08-$1.12/lb del, Nov. contracts EUROPE: €1,534-€1,625/m.t. del, Nov. ASIA: $1,300-$1,500/m.t., c&f, China Outlook Global acrylonitrile butadiene styrene...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/16044.html
December 15, 2008
Mitsubishi to Commercialize Novel Butadiene Technology
Mitsubishi Chemical says it plans to commercialize a recently developed technology to produce butadiene from butenes using proprietary catalysts...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/15885.html
December 15, 2008
Butadiene Players Uncertain About First-Quarter Contracts
December U.S. Gulf Coast butadiene contract prices settled 49% lower than last week, at 50 cts/lb, setting a dismal stage for the beginning of first-quarter butadiene contract...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/15899.html
August 26, 2008
Chemtura Declares Force Majeure Due to Butadiene Shortages
Chemtura says it has declared force majeure on its Blendex plastics additives sourced from North America due to “critical shortages” of butadiene, a key raw material. The...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/13846.html
June 23, 2008
Sinopec and Sabic Extend Scope of Tianjin JV
Sinopec and Sabic say they have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to extend the scope of their previously announced petrochemical joint venture at...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/12635.html
June 2, 2008
Global Prices Rise as Butadiene Supply Tightens Worldwide
Prices for most primary petrochemicals are being driven higher by rising energy and feedstock costs, but butadiene prices are climbing because the product is short and supplies are...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/12256.html
May 5, 2008
Sinopec Starts Up Butadiene Unit
Yangzi Petrochemical (YPC; Nanjing, China), a Sinopec subsidiary, has started up a 100,000-m.t./year butadiene...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/11742.html
March 19, 2008
BASF and Sinopec Seek Approval for Nanjing Petchems Expansion
BASF and Sinopec have submitted for approval by the Chinese government the technical and commercial feasibility study for a previously announced expansion of the companies' BASF-YPC...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/10968.html
March 10, 2008
Butadiene
Prices U.S.: 61 cts/lb del, Feb. contracts; 68-69 cts/lb del, spot EUROPE: €890/m.t./del, first-quarter contract; $1,230-1,240/m.t. fob, spot ASIA: $1,700/m.t. c&f, spot...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/10784.html
February 25, 2008
Butadiene Supply Constraints Fuel Spot Price Surge
Butadiene contracts settled at a record high of 61 cts/lb for February contracts, and spot prices continue to firm, adding 15 cts/lb to reach 67-69 cts/lb in recent weeks, sources say...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/10531.html
November 16, 2007
Invista Signs Land Agreement for Nylon-6,6 Intermediates and Polymer Plant in Shanghai
Invista, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, has signed a land reservation agreement with the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Development Co., paving the way for construction of a...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/9009.html
September 12, 2007
butadiene
Prices U.S.: 56 cts/lb del, August contracts; 59-60 cts/lb, del, spot EUROPE: €872/m.t. del, third-quarter contract; $1,150-$1,160/m.t. fob, spot ASIA: $850-$900/m.t. c&f...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/7633.html
July 11, 2007
U.S. Contracts Expected to Dip; Europe Contracts May Roll Over
U.S. Gulf Coast buyers say they are close to securing a 1-ct/lb decrease in the July butadiene contract, bringing prices to 57 cts/lb, del. The June contract was agreed to as a...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/6769.html
May 23, 2007
Tight Supply Drives Butadiene Prices to Record High
Ashortage of butadiene in the U.S. has driven up butadiene contract prices to an all-time high. May contracts rose by 2 cts/lb, the third successive month of increases, to 58 cts/lb...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/6415.html
May 2, 2007
Shell’s Singapore Butadiene Unit to Use BASF Process
Shell Chemicals says that its previously announced 155,000-m.t./year butadiene plant at Bukom Island, Singapore will use BASF’s butadiene...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/6231.html
April 25, 2007
COMMENTARY
European butadiene contracts have settled for the second quarter at a €25/m.t. increase, to €895/m.t. del, a record high. Strong demand and tight supplies boosted prices...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/6200.html
April 18, 2007
Shell Proceeds with Singapore Butadiene Project
Shell Eastern Petroleum, a Shell subsidiary, says it has taken a final decision to proceed with a project to build a...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/6122.html
February 28, 2007
Nylon Demand Remains Strong in China
Nylon-6,6 feedstocks have been in short supply, driven by force majeure at European and U.S. plants, including Rhodia and Invista, says Maack Business Services (Zurich). Nylon-6,6...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/basic_chemicals/petrochemicals/butadiene/5711.html
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