Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'polyethylene'

Time to look inward

By Malini Hariharan (Malini is now joint blogger for Asian Chemical Connections) It pays to have a domestic focus and Reliance Industries has shown this again in its results for the first half of fiscal 2009-10. Its petrochemicals division delivered...

Caution is the name of the game

By Malini Hariharan (Malini is now joint blogger for Asian Chemical Connections) Japanese chemical majors have raised their sales and profit forecasts for the second half of the fiscal year ending 31 March 2010, but the revisions are marginal and...

China polyethylene inventories are high

      A Mars Bar feast in store if crude hits $30/bbl again Source of Picture: Amazon.com       Polyethylene (PE) inventories in China at the second and third local distributor levels are at very high levels, two...

Futures, Recycling Behind China PE Mystery?

Picture: The China Daily "I've given up trying to read the polyolefin market in China. I just can't figure out what's going on," said a senior source with a major North American producer late last week. "I keep returning...