Europe top stories: weekly summary
ICIS Editorial
02-Sep-2024
LONDON (ICIS)–Here are some of the top stories from ICIS Europe for the week ended 30 August.
Europe OX post-summer
restocking intentions unclear as weak demand
lingers
Restocking operations after the summer were
once common practice in the European
orthoxylene (OX) market, but this year could be
different.
BASF
to shut down adipic acid production at
Ludwigshafen next year
BASF is to end production of adipic acid and
several downstream units at Ludwigshafen,
Germany, as part of structural changes underway
at the site, the company said on Thursday.
Rising costs, outages
fail to rattle sluggish propylene oxide market
in Europe
Outages at domestic suppliers, a local unit
being flagged for a potential sale and rising
production costs have failed to rattle a
sluggish European propylene oxide (PO) market.
Europe August nylon 6,6
contract prices soften in a slow
market
European nylon 6,6 contract prices for August
softened from July levels, posting highly
varied monthly deltas.
Global spot index slips
on lower prices in northeast Asia, US
Gulf
The global spot ICIS Petrochemical Index (IPEX)
slipped by nearly one-percentage point in the
week ending 23 August, on the back of price
falls in northeast Asia and the US Gulf.
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