{"id":7774,"date":"2017-12-21T16:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/a-reflection-of-the-carbon-black-market-or-forecast-for-2018-2\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:02:05","slug":"a-reflection-of-the-carbon-black-market-or-forecast-for-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/a-reflection-of-the-carbon-black-market-or-forecast-for-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A reflection of the Carbon Black Market  &#8211; Or Forecast for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do we have to expect for Carbon Black availability and prices in 2018?<\/p>\n<p>If we see current trends in China, with bigger focus on environment, we have to ask ourselves, if this may impact the availability and price of Carbon Black in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the shutdown of several factories in China, especially coke chemical plants, there is a big shift in the demand and supply of coke chemical Carbon Black feedstock, like anthracene oil.<\/p>\n<p>When coal is processed into coke, for steel production, there is also production of coal tar.<br \/>\nCoal tar itself can be processed into pitch, which is\u00a0an obligatory raw material for aluminium production, and different oil fractions like for example anthracene oil.<\/p>\n<p>Anthracene oil is used as Carbon Black feedstock, due to reason of good BMCI.<\/p>\n<p>The BMCI (Bureau of Mines Correlation Index) is a number correlated with the aromaticity of the feedstock.<\/p>\n<p>So due to the good and necessary moves in China, there is a lack of Carbon Black feedstock, which may influence availability and pricing in the next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Contact us<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>PentaCarbon GmbH<br \/>\nAnnabergstra\u00dfe 168<br \/>\n45721 Haltern am See<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.de\/maps\/place\/Pentacarbon+GmbH\/@51.72978,7.1604213,17z\/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x47b8f96f64200ea3:0x72cbe16d0c751ab4!2sAnnabergstra%C3%9Fe+168,+45721+Haltern+am+See!3b1!8m2!3d51.72978!4d7.16261!3m4!1s0x47b8f96f64200ea3:0x2a320f48002bd605!8m2!3d51.72978!4d7.16261\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get directions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do we have to expect for Carbon Black availability and prices in 2018?<\/p>\n<p>If we see actual trends in China, with bigger focus on environment, we have to ask ourselves, if this may impact the availability and price of Carbon Black in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-es-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentacarbon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}