China's monoethylene glycol imports in August rose 11.76% from a month earlier to 659,089 mt, customs data released Saturday showed. The imports were down 1.69% from a year ago. Chinese buyers sought spot MEG cargoes for August in a bid to cover a supply shortfall from Kuwait due to an unplanned outage. Kuwait's Equate shut its 550,000 mt/year MEG plant on July 31 after a fire. Platts reported that the MEG plant would be restarted in the middle of November. China's MEG imports from Kuwait

Hengli Petrochemical Industrial Park, which mainly produces purified terephthalic acid (PTA), began operations on Wednesday in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province. With a total investment of 26 billion yuan (USD4.12 billion), the project is expected to make an annual revenue of 200 billion yuan by 2015, according to Chen Jianhua, president of Jiangsu-based Hengli Group, one of the world's biggest weaving companies. Chen said they have made great efforts to make the project environmen

In the first half of this year, the export of medical and hygiene textiles from China amounted to US$ 1.35 billion, up 9.7% year-on-year, both export quantity and unit export price rose about 4.7%. The export price of absorbent cotton, bandage and disposable operation gown keep the same level as in same period of last year, while that of sanitary napkin and diaper rose more than 10%. For medical dressing and disposable operation gown alone, the United States is the largest market for China’s ex

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Plexus Cotton Limited reported that New York (NY) futures rebounded this week, as December gained 169 points close at 75.22 cents. A week ago the December contract looked like it was ready to fall apart after it pierced through a 3-month uptrend line, but a wave of euphoria following the Fed announcement lifted values back above the trendline, thereby negating a potential breakdown for the time being. However, even though last Friday’s 237-point rally may have looked impressive, volume was

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