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PET bottle chip market swings sharply in March on geopolitical risks

Shandong (JLC), April 14, 2026--Middle East tensions, supply constraints, and downstream caution drove wild PET bottle chip price swings in March.

04-14-2026 16:51:06

Geopolitical risks lift polyester chip costs, while demand lags

Shandong (JLC), March 5, 2026--Middle East tensions boosted crude oil prices and polyester chip costs, but weak demand weighed on the market.

03-05-2026 11:01:20

Styrene steady amid geopolitical upheaval, supply risks contained

Shandong (JLC), March 5, 2026—While geopolitical tensions boost crude and related costs, the direct supply impact on styrene is minimal given limited imports; the market is thus set for a firm yet ran

03-05-2026 08:26:33

Middle East conflict risks Chinese MEG supply

Shandong (JLC), March 2, 2026--The Chinese MEG industry faces a double threat from the conflict in the Middle East: cost pressure and direct supply disruption risks.

03-02-2026 17:24:45

Extreme cold hits the U.S., raising supply risks across global chemical markets

Shandong (JLC), February 3, 2026-The U.S. accounts for a substantial share of global production across key petrochemicals, including olefins, methanol, acetic acid, MDI, and TDI. Recently, an extreme

02-03-2026 11:59:11

China PA price skyrockets on tight supply

Shandong (JLC), January 13, 2022--Domestic phthalic anhydride (PA) market prices saw a fast rise due to severely tight supply.

01-13-2022 10:51:53

S China’s styrene prices skyrocket on bullish factors

Shandong (JLC), February 25, 2021--South China’s styrene market prices skyrocketed after the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday (February 11-17, 2021), due to rises in styrene futures prices, strengths in cost supports and limited styrene availability.

02-25-2021 17:26:25

First styrene futures delivery hedges risk

Shandong (JLC), April 23, 2020--Styrene futures contract saw delivery for the first time after it listed on Dalian Commodity Exchange, helpful for enterprises to accelerate funds withdrawal and giving them a hand to hedge risk.

04-23-2020 17:10:03

Domestic butanone market skyrocketing

The domestic butanone market prices rose sharply for several days since September 2. As of September 6, the overall average price of butanone was CNY7,900/mt according to the comprehensive quotation of several mainstream regions, up by CNY1,200/mt or 17.82% from August 30.

09-10-2019 17:02:16

Forthcoming risks in methanol market due to logistics changes (Part II)

Shandong (JLC), December 28, 2018--In Q4, 2018, China methanol market trend was unsatisfactory as a whole due to the changes in the macro environment and crude oil price.

12-28-2018 17:09:19

Forthcoming risks in methanol market due to logistics changes (Part I)

Shandong (JLC), December 28, 2018--In Q4, 2018, China methanol market trend was unsatisfactory as a whole due to the changes in the macro environment and crude oil price.

12-28-2018 13:42:53

Sinopec-SK Wuhan Petrochemical's ethylene capacity to reach 1.1million mt/yr

Sinopec-SK Wuhan Petrochemical officially commence ethylene debottleneck reconstrution project on December 18, 2018, and the project construction would last for 16 months and was expected to be put into production in September 2020.

12-21-2018 14:47:59

Methanol: threatening risks summary

Formaldehyde, DME and acetic acid industries enjoyed good profit while methanol to propylene producers who purchased methanol from the market suffered profit loss. In September, MTO-PP producers suffered a profit loss of CNY 1,009/mt.

10-11-2018 09:40:14

High port inventory to raise operation risk in sulfur market

The sulfur market price is likely to increase in the future amid tight supply and stronger demand. However, the high inventories at ports will lead to operation risk.

06-27-2018 17:51:59

MX price dips amid uncertainties, risk rises

Shandong (JLC), June 20, 2018--Domestic MX price saw a slow decline affected by bearish macro environment and slack demand.

06-25-2018 17:53:40

MEG market to stop rising for enhanced risks

MEG price would stop rising paces amid high port inventory, though entering April, domestic MEG price tracked an uptrend continually, and even jumped to CNY8,700/mt on April 20th.

04-26-2018 17:07:42

Risk hints in methanol market

04-26-2018 08:39:09

MA prices see ups and downs throughout 2017, risks seen towards year-end

China maleic anhydride (MA) market vibrated significantly throughout 2017, with prices remaining above CNY7,500/mt and far higher than the year-ago level.

11-23-2017 15:58:41

Acetic acid market is facing a risk of price decline

As to the chart, the acetic acid price began to increase from early September to mid-October. There was no sign of price decline and negotiation prices stayed firm.

10-19-2017 13:42:40

Sulfur market is facing the risk of declining as the demand kept sluggish

After several countries broke off the diplomatic relations with Qatar, the international political issue became serious and made a negative difference to the international transportation.

06-15-2017 16:55:32

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