Platts to harmonize MX and toluene coverage in US, discontinue industrial ethanol assessment

Platts has decided to harmonize the MX and toluene market coverage in the US and discontinue its industrial ethanol assessment, effective Jan. 13, 2025.

As part of this project, Platts will discontinue solvent toluene and xylene price assessments on the FOB Chicago and FOB US Gulf basis.

Platts will continue to publish daily nitration grade toluene and mixed xylenes assessments on the FOB US Gulf basis, which are accompanied by a weekly aromatics commentary on Fridays. Going forward, the Tuesday instance of these prices will be reflected in Solventswire and on all solvents pages, with Solventswire also reflecting the previous Friday's weekly aromatics commentary.

The monthly averages for the FOB USG price assessments will continue reflecting an arithmetic average of all daily assessments during the month.

To be discontinued on Jan 13, 2025:

FOB ChicagoFOB US Gulf

Solvent tolueneWeekly: AAHRW00, M.Avg: AAHRX00Weekly: AAHRU00; M.Avg: AAHRV00

Solvent xylenesWeekly: AAHSA00, M.Avg: AAHSB00Weekly: AAHRY00; M.Avg: AAHRZ00