BASF Increase in the NAFTA Region

BASF will increase it’s on and off list prices in the NAFTA region for the products listed below, effective October 1, 2011.

Cyclohexamine BASF Increase

BASF will increase it’s on and off list prices in the NAFTA region for Cyclohexylamine (CHA) and tert.-Butylamine (t-BA) by $0.20 per pound, effective October 1, 2011.

Sasol Chemicals Announces Price Increase Effective October 1, 2011

Sasol Chemicals Announces Price Increase Effective October 1, 2011

Lyondell Announces Price Increases on BDO & Derivatives

Effective October 1, 2011 or as contracts allow, Lyondell Chemical Company will increase list and off-list prices for the following 1,4 Butanediol and Derivatives.

Cyclohexylamine Price Increase BASF

BASF will increase it’s on and off list prices in the NAFTA region for Cyclohexylamine (CHA) and tert.-Butylamine (t-BA) by $0.20 per pound, effective October 1, 2011.

Chemical Intermediates Business of BASF Corporation Announces Off-List Price Increases

Effective October 1, 2011, the Chemical Intermediates Business of BASF Corporation will increase off-list pricing for Glyoxal and off-list pricing for CHA, BA, BDO and Derivatives.

GPC Industrial Alcohol Price Increase Announcement Effective 10-01-11

Georgia Gulf Announces September 1st Price Increase

Effective September 1st, Georgia Gulf announces $0.05/lb acetone price increase.

INEOS Phenol Increases Price of Acetone

Lyondell Announces Propylene Glycol Price Increase

Sasol Price Announcement - September, 2011

Sasol Price Announcement

Arch Chemicals to Increase Glycol Ethers on September 1st

Arch Chemicals will increase all off-list prices of glycol ether EM, DM and TM by 0.03/lb, effective September 1, 2011.

Huntsman Price Increase for EG

Huntsman will increase the list and off-list prices of all grades of Ethylene Glycol, by $0.03/lb, effective September 1, 2011. The prices for Diethylene Glycol and Triethylene Glycol remain unchanged.

BASF Experiencing Production Problems, DMAPA and MOPA on Limited Production

BASF's supply will be limited for the next 6-10 weeks, as they are currently experiencing a production problem at their Geismar, LA site affecting DMAPA and MOPA. 

IPA & Solvents Price Increase

Lyondell Chemical Company will increase the off-list selling price for isopropyl alcohol by $ 0.05/lb. and will increase off-list prices for solvents, effective September 1, 2011.

Dow to Increase Oxygenated Solvents

The Dow Chemical Company will increase list and off-list selling prices on select products within the Oxygenated Solvents portfolio, effective September 1, 2011.

Crackers Scheduled for Shutdown in the Fall

Crackers Scheduled for Shutdown in the Fall:

• Formosa's Point Comfort #2, TX Unit. Beginning September 1st for 40 days.
• Exxon's Baton Rouge Unit. Beginning September 1st for 45 days.
• Shell's Deer Park, TX Cracker. Beginning September 1st for 45 days.
• Dow's St Charles, LA Unit. Beginning October 10th for 30 days.

Ineos Oxide Increases

Effective August 15, 2011, Ineos Oxide will increase list and off-list prices for all grades of Monoethanolamine, Diethanolamine, Triethanolamine, Trolamine, and Alkanolamine 5503 by $ 0.05 per pound.

Eastman Increases

Effective August 5th, Eastman is increasing prices on Ethyl Acetate.

Lyondell Announces Amines Price Increases

Effective August 1, 2011, Equistar Chemicals will increase the off-list prices of all grades of MEA, DEA, and TEA.

Happy 4th of July from all of us at RCU Chemical!

Celanese Announces Price Increases

Celanese Corporation will increase list and off-list selling prices effective July 1, 2011.

BP to Increase Off-List Prices

Effective July 1, 2011, BP will increase off-list prices in the Americas.

Sasol Ethyl Acetate Price Increase

In response to market conditions, effective July 1, 2001, Sasol Chemicals North America will increase the price for Ethyl Acetate.

Huntsman Announces Increases For All Grades of Ethylene Glycol

Effective July 1, 2011, Huntsman will increase the list and off-list prices of all grades of Ethylene Glycol by $0.04.

Lyondell Chemical Company Announces Price Increases

Effective July 1, 2011, Lyondell Chemical Company will increase list and off-list prices for the following; 1,4 Butanediol and derivitives not to exceed the list prices shown in the attached.

Lyondell Announces Force Majeure Event

Effective May 30th, 2011, our Ethylene supplier declared Force Majeure due to a severe power outage at the Morris, IL complex.

Calumet Announces Price Increase

Effective June 16th, 2011, Calumet Penreco will be raising the prices of all parafinic and naphthenic white oils as well as Sontex, RO, and Hypertech grades of compressor oils.

GPC Announces Price Increase for Industrial Alcohol

Effective July 1st, 2011, GPC will increase list and off-list prices for all grades of industrial alcohol.

BASF Price Increases for July 1, 2011

Effective July 1, 2011 or as contracts allow, BASF Corporation will increase all on and off-list selling prices for the following products.

BASF Announces Increase in the NAFTA Region

Effective July 1st, 2011 BASF will increase its selling prices in the NAFTA region for the following products:

BASF SE Declares Force Majeure

BASF SE declares Force Majeure for supplies of Butanediol and Butanediol Derivatives out of its production plants in Ludwigshafen.

Old World Industries Announces Price Schedule May/June

MEG values have been volatile in Asia as a result of unplanned supply disruptions in Taiwan and pending maintenance outages the Middle East. The document below outlines the North America maintenance schedule for May and June.

Ashland buying International Specialty Products

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Specialty-chemicals group Ashland Inc. ASH +6.96% said Tuesday that it will acquire closely-held International Specialty Products Inc. in a $3.2 billion all-cash deal. "ISP's advanced product portfolio will expand Ashland's position in high-growth markets such as personal care, pharmaceutical and energy," Ashland said in a statement. For the fiscal year ended March 31, International Specialty Products generated sales of $1.6 billion and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $360 million. Ashland said the deal is expected to be immediately accretive to its earnings per share and is expected to close before the end of the September quarter.

Happy Memorial Day from all of us at RCU Chemical!

Sunoco Selling Frankford Plant to Honeywell

Sunoco Inc. announced Wednesday it was selling its Frankford phenol and acetone plant for $85 million, the latest asset divestiture by the Philadelphia refiner.

The buyer, Honeywell International Inc., says it will keep the 162 employees at the manufacturing facility.

"We do expect to add some positions within both the production and supply chain areas, as well as key functional support areas," Honeywell spokesman Peter Dalpe said.

Phenol is a raw material used in manufacturing nylon. The Frankford plant supplies a Honeywell plant in Virginia, Dalpe said.

BASF Declares Force Majeure on TDI

May 17, 2011

Dear Valued Customer,

The severe flooding of the lower Mississippi river and surrounding areas is
limiting raw materials from being delivered into our Geismar, Louisiana
production facilities.

As a result, BASF is declaring force majeure on all toluene diisocyanate
(Lupranate T80 and Lupranate 8020) products effective immediately.

Retroactive beginning May 1,2011, deliveries of products will be allocated on
a fair and reasonable basis utilizing the past 6 month (Nov 2010 -April 2011)
purchases for the base.

Your sales representative will be in touch with you to discuss the situation in
more detail.

We appreciate your patience as we work through this very difficult time.

ExxonMobil Announces Increases for Oxygenated Fluids

Effective June 3rd, 2011, the following oxygenated fluids MEK and SBA will increase by ten cents.

Lyondell Announces Increases for Propylene Carbonate

Effective June 1st, 2011, Lyondell Chemical will increase the list and off-list selling price for Propylene Carbonate.

INEOS Oxide Announces Increases

Effective June 1st, 2011 INEOS Oxide will increase off-list prices.

Sasol Announces Price Increases

Effective June 1st, 2011, Sasol Chemicals North America will increase prices for the following products, not to exceed list price.

Huntsman Announces Increases for List & Off-List Prices of Ethanolamine Products

Huntsman Announces Price Increases for Performance Products

Huntsman Announces Price Increases for Surfactants

ExxonMobil Price Increase

Effective June 1st, 2011, ExxonMobil will increase its selling prices for all branched alcohol.