05Jun
PTA moderates but spread with paraxylene widens
PTA or purified terephthalic acid, the key raw material to produce polyester – saw prices rise in early May in Asia on incessant buying, coupled with overall slow [...]
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05Jun
Paraxylene tumbles, eases cost support for polyester
Crude oil markets opened May on a weaker note with moderate movement on either sides, but plunged after EIA revealed the US inventories hit 2.5-year highs. A strong US$ also [...]
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25Apr
Cotton yarn export rises in March on falling prices
Cotton yarn export was at 130 million kg worth US$380 million (INR2,630 crore), up 6% from previous year’s level in US$ terms. 77 countries imported cotton yarn from India at [...]
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24Apr
Cotton prices shoot up while ginners face shortage in Gujarat
Cotton prices are on the uptrend amid missing accurate crop estimates while some pockets face shortage of kapas. In Gujarat, the second largest cotton grower in India, nearly [...]
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24Apr
Cotton export to Bangladesh plunges 69 pc in March
Cotton export volume continued to slump, to 5.1 lakh bales (170 kg each) in March as against 12.5 lakh bales ex-ported in the same month of previous marketing year (2017-18). [...]
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03Apr
Viscose or rayon fibre prices appear bottoming out in in China
Viscose or rayon staple fibre markets in China apparently stabilized in the last week of March 2019 as high-end fibre producers lowered their offers to acceptable levels of [...]
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03Apr
Acrylic fibre prices firmer on restricted production
Acrylic fibre (ASF) markets in Asia were silent in the last week of March, waiting for a demand turnaround while cost kept rising. In China, with some replenishing activities [...]
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03Apr
Benzene prices take plunge in late March, nylon may retreat later
Benzene prices across region plunged across markets in Asia, Europe and US in the last week of March 2019. Asian benzene prices declined following a strong performance [...]
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03Apr
Why did polyester prices remain flat in the last week of March
Polyester fibre (PSF) prices remained unchanged across China, India and Pakistan in the last week of March due to stable but weakening cost support. In China, PSF markets were [...]
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21Feb
Acrylonitrile bottomed out in week-two of February, acrylic stable
Acrylonitrile prices jumped on an upward trajectory across region in the second week of February due to planned and unplanned shutdown and force majeure. They appear to have [...]
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