Ethylene tar News & Market Updates

Morning Market Update for Ethylene Tar

2d ago

On October 9, crude oil prices rose as hurricane disruptions constrained U.S. supply, despite easing geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran. WTI...

Morning Market Brief: Ethylene Tar

3d ago

On October 8, international crude oil prices surged due to Middle East instability and U.S. hurricane-related offshore shutdowns. WTI rose 3.64% to $91.49,...

Ethylene Tar Market Dominated by Downtrend (October 1–8, 2026)

3d ago

Ethylene tar prices fell due to weak demand and increased supply, despite easing geopolitical oil concerns. While crude may rise slightly next week, limited...

Leading coating-material producers are shifting from buying coumarone resin to sourcing ethylene tar directly and running integrated lines. In the integrated route, tar skips the intermediate resin stage and moves through blending, separation and polymerization straight into…

D Daniel Foster on Sep 19, 2026

China's ethylene tar output is set to rise sharply as steam cracker capacity expands. Current naphtha-based ethylene capacity of 19 million tons per year already yields over 2.6 million tons of pyrolysis tar annually, and that figure is projected to reach 5.8 million tons by…

J James Morrison on Sep 16, 2026

Ethylene tar sits at the bottom of a chain running crude to ethylene to pyrolysis tar to coumarone resin to anode coating material. Because it is a byproduct of naphtha cracking, its price moves broadly in step with crude, and that pass-through has squeezed coating-material…

E Elena Vasquez on Sep 05, 2026