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PP market trends amid energy volatility and capacity expansion

Shandong (JLC), April 21, 2026--From 2025 to 2026, the polypropylene (PP) market exhibited an overall pattern of initial weakness followed by strength, with volatile upward movement, shaped by the int

04-21-2026 16:36:59

China coal-to-ethanol capacity continues to expand

Shandong (JLC), March 24, 2026—China’s coal-to-ethanol capacity has continued to expand, becoming the primary driver of domestic supply growth.

03-24-2026 15:51:53

2.25 mln mt/yr new MEG capacity to be released in 2026

Shandong (JLC), March 18, 2026—Four new ethylene glycol (MEG) units with total capacity of 2.25 mln mt/yr would come on stream in 2026. In this way, China MEG capacity might total at 32.115 mln mt/yr

03-18-2026 10:06:56

415,000 mt/yr new acetone capacity to be released in 2026

Shandong (JLC), March 3, 2026 – Three phenol and acetone units with total acetone capacity of 415,000 mt/yr would come on stream in 2026. In this way, China total acetone capacity would be pegged at 4

03-03-2026 10:57:39

1.91 million mt/yr new toluene capacity to come on stream in 2026

Shandong (JLC), February 26, 2026 – A total of 8 toluene units with total capacity of 1.91 million mt/yr would be put into production in 2026. In this way, China toluene capacity might total at 33.72

02-26-2026 09:07:31

China PE capacity expansion & self-sufficiency analysis

Shandong (JLC), August 27, 2025--China’s polyethylene (PE) market has seen capacity and output rise year after year from 2016 through 2025, with two distinct surges occurring in 2020-2021 and again in

08-27-2025 17:06:28

China PE capacity expansion to hit a record high in 2025

Shandong (JLC), August 19, 2025--China’s polyethylene (PE) industry capacity continued to expand at speed in 2025, with domestic self-sufficiency rising year by year.

08-19-2025 17:08:18

China's PX industry faces capacity expansion bottleneck

Shandong (JLC), February 18, 2025-After the high-speed commissioning period of PX capacity from 2021 to 2023, the PX industry entered a capacity expansion bottleneck phase from 2024 to 2025. There wer

02-18-2025 14:45:00

China BPA industry sees capacity expansion and margin losses in 2024

Shandong (JLC), December 17, 2024—In 2024, China’s BPA industry saw continuous expansion of capacity and production margin losses weighed by tepid supply-demand fundamentals and high production costs,

12-17-2024 12:00:22

Fiber-grade PET capacity up on year

Shandong (JLC), October 29, 2024--The total capacity of fiber-grade PET increased as of September on a year-on-year comparison, on account of rising demand from film industry.

10-29-2024 14:04:59

PTA & PET capacity expansions fuel both supply and demand growth in H1

Shandong (JLC), Jul 19, 2024—In the first half of 2024, the domestic supply and demand saw simultaneous growth, as PTA and PET capacities came online one after another.

07-19-2024 16:38:24

Polyester capacity expansion slows down in H1, 2024

Shandong (JLC), July 8, 2024--Polyester capacity expansion slowed down in the first half of the year after a fast growth in the previous year.

07-08-2024 15:18:09

China polyolefin capacity sees booming growth

Shandong (JLC), March 19, 2024—Looking back at how producers in polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) markets thrived amid the ebbs and flows in the past ten years, it can be realized that producer

03-19-2024 17:16:56

China VAC capacity totals 3.4 million mt/yr in 2023

Shandong (JLC), December 27, 2023—China VAC (vinyl acetate) capacity reached 3.4 million mt/yr in 2023.

12-27-2023 16:14:46

China acrylonitrile capacity shows uptrend in 2023

Shandong (JLC), December 21, 2023--Acrylonitrile capacity kept rising in the year, thanks to producers comprising Oriental Petrochemical, Guangdong Jieyang Petrochemical and Sierbang Petrochemical br

12-21-2023 15:52:15

Shenghong’s Jiangsu facility tops world’s acrylonitrile capacity

Guangzhou (JLC), December 8, 2023 – Sierbang Petrochemical, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenghong Petrochemical (“Shenghong”), commissioned its fourth 260,000-mt/yr acrylonitrile unit

12-08-2023 19:00:20

Asian toluene capacity distribution analysis in 2023

Shandong (JLC), November 30, 2023--Asian toluene capacity saw regional differentials in distribution in 2023, and the detailed analysis is as follows.

11-30-2023 11:46:24

Butanone capacity inches up, output largely stable

Shandong (JLC), November 28, 2023--China butanone capacity inched up as of late November, as Anhui Zhonghuifa New Materials brought on line its unit, while the product output was largely stable, larg

11-28-2023 16:22:52

Newly-added PFY capacity totals 4.12 mln mt in 2023

Shandong (JLC), October 25, 2023--Polyester filament yarn (PFY) industry witnessed a fast expansion in the year when producers including Jiangsu Hengyang Chemical and Fiber and Jiangsu Xintuo New Mate

10-25-2023 16:49:14

Excessive PTA production capacity drags down imports

Shandong (JLC), September 20, 2023--From January to July 2023, the imports of PTA in China remained scarce, mainly due to the oversupply of domestic PTA production capacity.

09-20-2023 15:05:00

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