NBA may extend short-term gains.

The article reports on the short-term gains being experienced by spot n-butanol and normal butyl alcohol (NBA) producers in northeast Asia in August 2014 due to short import supply and higher demand. Topics discussed include a forecast by industry sources that the gains will not extend beyond mid-September, the decreased import volumes from China since March and the closure of some chemical plants in China including those of Jilin Petrochemical and Beijing Chemical.