28 Feb 2011 | 03:37 UTC — Tokyo

Platts to revamp Asian aromatics commentaries

In order to streamline the aromatics commentary pages on PCA, Platts will expand the length of commentary pages for Asian benzene, toluene, styrene monomer, methanol, orthoxylene and MTBE, while aromatics jump pages for these products will be discontinued from March 1.

The page numbers of the daily and weekly aromatics assessments on PCA will be unchanged.

The commentary pages for Solvent MX will be revamped from March 25.

Aromatics commentary page numbers from March 1:

Benzene commentaries: PCA580 Toluene commentaries: PCA581 SM commentaries: PCA414 Methanol commentaries: PCA651 OX commentaries; PCA714 MTBE commentaries: PCA705 and PGA744

Please send any queries or comments to Ihsan Rahim at ihsan_rahim@platts.com, Chua Sok Peng at sok_peng_chua@platts.com, and Anton Ferkov at anton_ferkov@platts.com.