Kandla has announced a price revision for C9 Solvent as of 18th September 2020.

The company halted operations at the unit on September 12th, 2020.

The company slashed production at its plant to around 50% of the capacity levels on September 16th, 2020.

As of 18th September 2020 SM prices have declined in the Asian market owing to the soft demand trend

Acrylonitrile prices picked up in the Asia market as of 18th September 2020.

As of 18th September 2020, PTA prices picked up in the International Market.

Demand for hand sanitizers has declined, and recently, also newcomers to the IPA market in the spring are exiting the market and re-focusing on their previous products.

The company's No. 1 and No. 2 MEG plants at the site, each with 120,000 mt/year capacity, are running at 90%-100% capacity in September. 

The company is likely to shut the plant for maintenance by early-December, 2020 for a period of around 4 weeks. Earlier, the plant was scheduled for maintenance by October 2020.

Major producer from Thailand is heard to have offered its Vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) at the USD 740/mt levels.

The company has scheduled a turnaround at the unit in the second half October for a period of around 20 days.

The company has undertaken a planned shutdown at its plant in early-September, 2020.

This study focuses on China's Acetic Acid industry forecasts. In the two past decades, the industry has been growing at a fast pace.

The company halted operations at the unit for maintenance on September 4th, 2020.

On Thursday, bullish upstream crude and naphtha values pushed propylene prices higher in Asia.

Despite stronger upstream energy rates and constrained product availability Ethylene prices remained unchanged in Asia.

Major International producer resumes production at its Polypropylene (PP) plant following an unplanned outage.

As of 18th September 2020, the dollar opened at Rs 73.47 which is up from the previous days close.

As of 17th September 2020, Dollar opened at Rs 73.74 which is up from the previous close.

As reported in our previous analysis, the price of MX / MMA  has been going down for many days but as of today the price of MX/ MMA has increased in the Mumbai market.

Various market traders have confirmed as of 17th September 2020 that the price of chemicals have increased in the Delhi market.

Kandla has announced price revision for MIBK as of 17th September 2020.

The company has planned to halt operations at the plant by early-October, 2020.

As of 17th September 2020, SM prices have picked up in the International Market.

Acetone and Phenol prices climbed in China amid reports of limited product availability and strong demand trends together pushed prices higher across the region.