MOSCOW (MRC) -- Celanese Corporation, a global chemical and specialty materials company, has increased January list and off-list selling prices for Vinyl Acetate Monomer (VAM) sold in the Americas, said the producer on its site.
The price increases below are effective for orders shipped on or after 17 January 2019, or as contracts otherwise allow, and are incremental to any previously announced increases.
Thus, VAM prices rose, as follows:
- by USD0.05/lb - for the USA and Canada;
- by USD125/mt - for Mexico & South America.
As MRC reported earlier, Celanese last raised its VAM prices in the Americas on 24 October 2019, as stated below:
- by USD0.05/lb - for the USA and Canada;
- by USD125/mt - for Mexico & South America.
According to MRC's DataScope report, November EVA imports to Russia dropped by 8,9% year on year to 3,440 tonnes from 3,780 tonnes in November 2018, and overall imports of this grade of ethylene copolymer into the Russian Federation decreased in January-November 2019 by 18,9% year on year to 35,95 tonnes (44,330 tonnes in the first eleven months of 2018).
Celanese Corporation is a global technology leader in the production of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications. Based in Dallas, Celanese employs approximately 7,700 employees worldwide and had 2018 net sales of USD7.2 billion.
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