Methanol Supply Tightens: Impact on Pharma & Coatings
Methanol supply tightness — when it occurs — reaches far beyond the methanol market itself, because methanol is an upstream feedstock for formaldehyde, acetic acid, MTBE, and the solvent streams that pharma, chemicals, and coatings depend on. When methanol availability tightens, the squeeze propagates downstream into derivatives that buyers may not even track as methanol-linked. […]
