Asian methyl methacrylate: Prices rise as Chinese offers dry up / Chinese focus on domestic market / India awaits Chinese offers

Oct 17, 2026

Asian methyl methacrylate prices moved up by $5/metric ton week over week on Oct. 13, with FOB China at $1,760/mt and CFR Southeast Asia at $1,905/mt, compared with Oct. 6. China returned to the market after the Golden Week holiday, although there was no increase in buying and selling activity, sources said. Few export offers for MMA from China were heard in the week to Oct. 13, traders and Chinese producers said. “Domestic price is stable [so] less FOB China offers,” one producer said. A second producer expressed a similar view, saying he had made no offers during the week. The producer added that his October-loading MMA cargoes were sold out and that it was still too early to offer Novemberloading cargoes. “It is too early to sell [November-loading MMA],...

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