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Mumbai Chemical Market



       Phthalates move up; Caustic potash eases



         Fairly steady trends pre-       Dimethyl formamide (DMF)  Rs. 57 in bulk, while Caustic
       vailed in the Mumbai chemi-       was at Rs. 73 per kg in bulk.    soda lye was at Rs. 30 (basic).
       cals market as the year 2023                                       Caustic potash  was down
       drew to a close.                  Oxo alcohols                     by Rs. 3 at Rs. 123 in bulk.
                                           Domestic Octanol was at        Ethylene dichloride was at
         Toluene (RIL) was at Rs. 82     Rs. 113 and imported mate-       Rs. 42 in bulk. Among the
       (basic) in bulk, while Toluene    rial was at Rs. 118. Domestic    Chloromethanes, Methylene
       (BPCL) was at Rs. 83 (basic)      Butanol was selling at Rs. 84    chloride was steady at Rs. 42
       in bulk and Rs. 124 for barrels.   and imported material was at    in bulk. Chloroform was at
       BPCL’s Benzene was at Rs. 77,     Rs. 87.50. Domestic Isobutanol   Rs. 13 in bulk.
       while Benzene (RIL) ruled at      was at Rs. 83.50 and imported
       Rs. 81.50.                        was at Rs. 82.50.                Phthalates
                                                                             DOP was up by Rs. 2.50
         Mixed xylene was at Rs. 79      Fibre intermediates              at Rs. 135.50 while DBP was
       in bulk, while imported mixed       MEG  was at Rs. 50.50          up by Rs. 3 at Rs. 123. DIBP
       xylene was at Rs. 80 (basic).     in bulk,  while  DEG  was at     was up by a rupee at Rs. 118.
       O-Xylene (OX) was at Rs. 88,      Rs. 67.50 for bulk. TEG was      DBM was down by Rs. 5 at
       while imported material was at    at Rs. 100 in bulk and Rs. 107   Rs. 126 and DOA was up by
       Rs. 94 in bulk. Domestic Iso-     for packed material. PTA was     Rs. 2 at Rs. 158. DOM was up
       propyl alcohol was at Rs. 104     at Rs. 84.                       by Rs. 3 at Rs. 148.
       in bulk and was available at      Phenol
       Rs. 139 for packed material.                                       Titanium dioxide
                                           Phenol imported material
                                         was at Rs. 85 in bulk. Ace-         Anatase  grade  Titanium
         Among the aromatic sol-         tone imported material was at    dioxide (TTPL) was at Rs. 192
       vents, C-9 was at Rs. 82. Cyclo-  Rs. 90.                          (basic) in bulk, while rutile
       hexane  ruled  at Rs. 97 in                                        grade of KMML was at
       bulk, while Cyclohexanone         Acetyls                          Rs. 250 (basic) for paint, ink
       was at Rs. 109 in bulk. Acrylo-     Acetic acid imported was at    and for plastic grade it was
       nitrile (imported) was at Rs. 100   Rs. 49 in bulk. Ethyl acetate   at Rs. 255.
       in bulk.  Styrene monomer         was at Rs. 85 in bulk, while
       was at  Rs. 100.  Propylene       Butyl acetate was at Rs. 103        Among the imported mate-
       glycol was at Rs. 100 in bulk.    in bulk. Butyl cellosolve was at   rials, DuPont was quoted at
       MEK (imported) was at Rs. 95      Rs. 120 in bulk. Vinyl acetate   Rs. 345 (basic) per kg; Hunts-
       (basic).                          was at Rs. 72 in bulk.           man was at Rs. 270 and Tronox
                                                                          was at Rs. 315. Chinese rutile
         Methanol (imported) ruled       Chloralkalies                    was at Rs. 210 (basic), Chinese
       at Rs. 24 in bulk, ex-Kandla.       Caustic soda fl akes ruled at  anatase was at Rs. 175.


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