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Butadiene – will the good times last?

By Malini Hariharan A question that every butadiene buyer has been asking for a long time is when will prices ease? There are no signs yet although buyers are threatening to cut production. Butadiene rose by more than $200/tonne last week to $3,080-3,120/tonne CFR Northeast Asia, reports my colleague Helen Yan on ICIS news. Prices […]

The C4 challenge

By Malini Hariharan C4 buyers are a troubled lot. Availabilty of the product is tight and will remain so for the foreseeable future. So it was not surprising to hear that concerns about C4 supply dominated discussions at the recent 6th ICIS World Olefins Conference in Brussels. From a surplus in 2010, Europe is predicted […]

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