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China's styrene operating rates plummets on intensive production cuts

Shandong (JLC), May 20, 2025--China’s styrene monomer industry saw a significant decline in operating rates in April 2025, with output also shrinking accordingly.

05-20-2025 10:52:00

ExxonMobil's Huizhou ethylene plant produces on-spec products

Guangzhou (JLC), April 14, 2025--ExxonMobil's ethylene plant for the phase-I Huizhou ethylene project successfully produced on-specification products at a trial production recently.

04-14-2025 18:32:52

Weakness in DOP market weighs on production margins

Shandong (JLC), March 19, 2025—Recently, China’s DOP market has steered into the declining channel, with the production margin of DOP producers shrinking. From March 1 to 17, the theoretical productio

03-19-2025 15:58:35

ExxonMobil’s ethylene project achieves on-spec products

ExxonMobil (Huizhou)'s phase-I ethylene project in south China’s Guangdong province achieved on-specification product, as its No. 1 LLDPE production line produced qualified granule on February 6, acco

02-11-2025 15:17:50

PSF production margin drop in Q1 2024

Shandong (JLC), April 16, 2024--The price of polyester staple fiber (PSF) showed an uptrend in the first quarter of 2024 amid firm feedstock prices.

04-16-2024 15:16:59

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

China sets ethylene production target over 50 mln mt for 2024

Guangzhou (JLC), August 28, 2023 – China aimed to boost its ethylene output to over 50 million mt in 2024,according to a joint statement published on August 18 by seven national-level ministries.

08-28-2023 18:26:16

PTA market dragged by production recovery

Shandong (JLC), August 16, 2023--PTA market turned lukewarm in the middle of July amid rising supply to a large extent, as part of producers restored production.

08-16-2023 16:43:01

ZPC achieves on-spec products at PO/SM units

Shandong (JLC), June 21, 2023--Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical (ZPC), a subsidiary of Rongsheng Petrochemical achieved on-specification products at its PO/SM units, according to a notice published by

06-21-2023 16:50:16

Propylene production margins climb on falling cost

Shandong (JLC), May 11, 2023--Production margins of propylene rose greatly in early May, largely because prices of part of feedstock plunged.

05-11-2023 15:23:40

Hengli (Huizhou)’s PTA unit achieves on-spec products

Shandong (JLC) March 23, 2023--Private Hengli Group brought online its 2.50 million mt/yr PTA unit in Huizhou Industrial Park, Guangdong Province on March 18 and enjoyed on-specification products the

03-24-2023 17:21:51

Acrylonitrile production cut fails to boost market

Shandong (JLC), March 9, 2023--Several acrylonitrile producers slashed operating rate lately, but this failed to drive up the product market dragging by slack demand.

03-09-2023 17:18:03

PE production capacity rises on new units in South China

Shandong (JLC), March 3, 2023--In February, new PE units of Guangdong Petrochemical and Hainan Refining and Chemical were put into operation successively.

03-03-2023 00:00:00

China caustic soda market production capacity analysis

Shandong (JLC), March 3, 2023--China's caustic soda capacity has increased significantly year by year over 2018-2021.

03-03-2023 00:00:00

PP powder production capacity expands, while output drops

Shandong (JLC), November 29, 2022--With the intensification of competition, small PP powder plants have been shut down gradually. However, there were still some new units coming on line as opportuniti

11-29-2022 16:32:17

China PE production capacity expands rapidly in 2022

China PE production capacity is expected to reach 30.61 million mt/yr in 2022

11-17-2022 17:31:09

China PP production capacity extends rises

Shandong (JLC), November 8, 2022--From 2018 to 2022, China's PP production capacity continued to grow, with a growth rate of 3.03%-16.78% in the five years and an average annual growth rate of 10.27%,

11-08-2022 18:03:18

Peak production of shed film in the peak demand season

Shandong (JLC), October 25, 2022--In October, the shed film entered the peak demand season.

10-25-2022 17:16:00

World’s largest coal chemical project achieves MEG product

Shandong (JLC), October 12, 2022--Yulin Chemical under Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group achieved on-specification MEG product from its new chemical material demonstration project by coal sepa

10-12-2022 17:21:22

China styrene production capacity distribution analysis

Shandong (JLC), August 21, 2022--As of August 19, 2022, China's styrene effective plant capacity increased to 15.792 million mt/yr, an increase of 2.23 million mt/yr or 14.52% compared with the end of

08-21-2022 13:57:00

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