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Major NE Asian PVC producer lowers Dec offer to China
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--A major producer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in northeast Asia lowered its offer for December shipments to China effective Tuesday, market sources said. The producer’s offer...
Major NE Asian PVC producer lowers Dec offers to SE Asia
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--A major producer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in northeast Asia lowered its offers for December shipments to southeast Asia effective Tuesday, market sources said. The producer’s...
Indonesia’s Pertamina issues Dec sales tender for Group I BS150 base oils
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Indonesia's Pertamina issued a tender for Group I BS150 base oils today, offering 3,000 tonnes for December laycan. The tender is scheduled to close on 2 December 2025. Base oils...
ICIS TTF Early Day assessments: 26 November 2025
– US President Donald Trump will dispatch special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week. In a parallel development, US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll...
Plant status: Iran’s Sabalan shuts methanol plant on gas shortage issues
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Sabalan Petrochemical Location: Asaluyeh, Iran Product: Methanol Capacity (tonnes/year): 1,650,000 Event start: Late November Event finish:...
New MOF binds two gas molecules at each metal site
Rare co-operative adsorption mechanism enables metal–organic framework to bind two carbon monoxide molecules at each metal centre
Plant status: Iran’s Kimiaye Pars shuts methanol plant on gas shortage
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Kimiaye Pars Co Location: Assaluyeh, Iran Product: Methanol Capacity (tonnes/year): 1.65 million Event start: Late November Event finish:...
Plant status: Taiwan’s CAPCO to shut PTA unit late Nov/early Dec
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: China American Petrochemical (CAPCO) Location: Taichung, Taiwan Product: Purified terephthalic acid (PTA) Capacity (tonnes/year): 760,000 Event...
Plant status: Celanese shuts Nanjing VAM plant in China for maintenance
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Celanese Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China Product: Vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) Capacity (tonnes/year): 300,000 Event start: 24 November 2025...
SE Asia PE pipe import prices stable due to rangebound deals, discussions
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Polyethylene (PE) pipe grade import price discussions in southeast Asia were stable mainly reflecting rangebound deals and discussion levels. In Vietnam, deals and discussions for...
China PE pipe import prices stable on rangebound discussions
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Polyethylene (PE) pipe grade import prices in China were stable during the current week, reflecting rangebound discussions and selling indications. In the China import market, bids...
Plant status: Taiwan’s OUCC to restart ethanolamines plant in early Dec
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Oriental Union Chemical (OUCC) Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan Product: Ethanolamines Capacity (tonnes/year): 40,000 Event start: 24 November Event...
Plant status: Indonesia’s KMI to shut methanol unit for maintenance
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Kaltim Methanol Industri (KMI) Location: PT Kaltim Industrial Estate, Bontang, Indonesia Product: Methanol Capacity (tonnes/year): 660,000 Event...
Plant status: China’s Sinopec Maoming shuts PBR plant for maintenance
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Sinopec Maoming PC Location: Maoming, Guangdong, China Product: Polybutadiene rubber (PBR) Capacity (tonnes/year): 100,000 Event start: 24...
Plant status: China’s Sinopec ZRCC restarts No 2 cracker
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical (ZRCC) Location: Zhejiang, China Product: Ethylene, propylene Capacity (tonnes/year): 1.2 million for...
Plant status: Iran’s Zagros Petrochemical shuts one methanol line
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Zagros Petrochemical Company Location: Asaluyeh, Iran Product: Methanol Capacity (tonnes/year): 1,650,000 each (two lines) Event start: 25...
Plant status: China’s Sinopec Maoming shuts BD plants for maintenance
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Here is a plant status report: Name: Sinopec Maoming PC Location: Maoming, Guangdong, China Product: Butadiene (BD) Capacity (tonnes/year): 50,000 (No 1); 100,000 (No 2) Event...
Major NE Asia PVC producer lowers December India offer as ADD premium fades
MUMBAI (ICIS)--A major northeast Asian producer has lowered its December 2025 polyvinyl chloride (PVC) offer to India by $60/tonne compared to November offer. The current offer price stands at...
First synthesis of open-chain N-stereogenic amines achieved
Researchers at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung have developed a method for synthesizing stable, chiral open-chain amines with chirality on nitrogen, a previously elusive task. Their work utilizes a new catalytic reaction with a
Booster for the energy transition: Kiel research team wants to optimize hydrogen production
When ships powered by green hydrogen sail the world's oceans in the near future, scientists from Kiel will also have made their contribution. A research team from HAW Kiel and Kiel University is currently working