APIC ’24: PODCAST: Asia C3 derivative demand still slow amid uncertainty

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–Asia’s oxo-alcohols buyers maintained a wait-and-watch approach on the market amid possibility of added plant capacities in China.

The acrylonitrile (ACN) market continues to see limited spot demand in northeast Asia. Even with recent higher production rates at downstream acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) plants, ACN producers were unlikely to increase operating rates.

For the acrylates downstream, butyl-A market in Asia continues to take direction from Chinese domestic prices. With India’s Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) requirements preventing Chinese-origin imports, cargoes from China were flowing into southeast Asia and northeast Asia.

In this podcast, ICIS editors Julia Tan and Corey Chew discuss trends in the Asia propylene (C3) and derivatives markets.

(This podcast first ran on 15 May.)

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