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PriceWatch Report Highlights 07 March 2010

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The supply tightness in Asian acrylonitrile market persisted this week but did not support any major price rise. With Lunar-new-year holidays ending run rates were recovering at acrylonitrile plants in China. Given poor propylene market and the pessimism in the short run support to acrylonitrile will taper. The market is expected to narrowly firm up next week, with the uptrend will gradually wane off.
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US ACN export prices hit record high [ 05 Mar, 2010]

The US acrylonitrile (ACN) export contract price hit a record high on Friday, causing some buyers and sellers to worry if the market is due for a correction.

The ACN export contract price for February reached 93.44-97.52 cents/lb ($2,060-2,150/tonne, €1,524-1,591/tonne) FOB (free on board) US Gulf amid higher feedstock prices and low availability. ACN contract prices are calculated via formula and then applied retroactively.

That level was an average of 5% higher from the $1,981-2,028/tonne FOB range in June 2008, near the height of the housing and commodity bubbles. ACN export prices crashed when those bubbles burst later that year, hitting a low of $640-740/tonne FOB in January 2009.

Since then, two US ACN producers - Lucite and Ascend Performance Chemicals - stopped selling to the open market. The price of chemical-grade propylene (CGP), the main ACN feedstock, also started its steady climb higher. CGP contracts grew to $1,367 tonne in February from $408/tonne in January 2009.

That caused the other suppliers in the region - INEOS and Cytec Industries in the US and Unigel in Mexico - to steadily hike up export spot prices, mainly to customers in Asia who increased their orders to meet the region’s growing economy.

Now that prices have reached new heights, buyers and even some sellers said they were worried about a potential squeeze - raw material prices continue to escalate while ACN’s record price could start to drive some buyers out of the market.

“We do feel priced are at their peak, although raw materials are still going up,” one trader said.

Source: ICIS

UK - Ineos Nitriles declares force majeure for acrylonitrile from Cologne [ 21 Jan, 2010]

Following a shortfall in the feedstock propylene, on 11 January 2010 the nitriles division of Ineos (Lyndhurst / UK; www.ineos.com) declared force majeure for acrylonitrile from Cologne. A company spokesman told the newsletter Plastics Information Europe (PIE, Bad Homburg / Germany; www.pieweb.com) that the FM is a late result of the closure of cracker 4 on 10 December 2009.

While the group has been able to source enough propylene until now, its present feedstock supply falls short of demand. It remains unclear when the FM will be lifted.

Source: Plastics Information Europe

   

 


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