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Polymer News On Jan-8-2005

LDPE trader prepares for a sharp price decline ahead of February

Jan 8, 2005

The lack of buying interest in LDPE this week continued to haunt regional sellers, this despite limited avails from Malaysia’s ...


Outlook across the Asian PVC markets remain negative

Jan 8, 2005

The outlook for next week across the Asian PVC markets remained negative as traders expected that seller attempts to maintain t...


Taiwan~s CPC plans to build mega refinery and naphtha cracker complex

Jan 8, 2005

Market sources in Taiwan this morning informed the polymerupdate team that Taiwan~s state-run Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC) was ...


Local buying across India once again begins to turn slack

Jan 8, 2005

A growing feeling of pessimism across several parts of Asia toward the latter half of this week prompted buyers in India to onc...


N Butanol prices end the week in Asia - higher

Jan 8, 2005

Improved buying sentiments this week prompted prices of N Butanol higher, supported by an anticipated tightness in product ava...


Crude prices end mixed ahead of the weekend start

Jan 8, 2005

Crude prices on Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange slipped a tad on the back of growing speculation that warm weather i...


Indonesia~s TriPolyta suffers a shutdown at all three of it~s PP lines

Jan 8, 2005

A polymerupdate source in Indonesia yesterday reported that local PP producer Tripolyta had suffered an outage at it’s unit at ...


PTA prices end the week up however buyers and sellers disagree on their ideal price targets

Jan 8, 2005

PTA prices this week in Asia surged, as demand was seen improving although sellers were over ambitiously targeting hikes which...


BP~s 320 kt/annum cracker in Scotland suffers an unplanned outage

Jan 8, 2005

In an overnight brief, a polymerupdate source in the UK reported that BP on January 5th, suffered an unplanned outage at its 32...