During May xxxx, Butyl Acetate prices in China rose slightly, supported by resilient export demand and firm regional fundamentals despite sluggish domestic consumption. The market showed moderate strength amid ongoing plant maintenance activities in the broader Asian acetyls chain, including Celanese’s Singapore plant shutdown throughout May and maintenance by Petronas in Malaysia (May x–xx).
These events, although not directly impacting Butyl Acetate production, limited feedstock and solvent availability in certain markets, providing a psychological lift to regional solvent prices. Domestic profitability remained narrow due to weak ethyl acetate trends and thin local downstream activity, but steady inquiries from export markets such as Türkiye, Egypt, and Indonesia underpinned sentiment.
Chinese Butyl Acetate production operated normally in late May, with sufficient availability of feedstocks including n-butanol and acetic acid, which hovered near USD xxx/MT. Despite soft upstream methanol performance and limited...
