Filatex, one of India’s biggest polyester yarn producers, is paying nearly 30 percent more for the petroleum-derived feedstocks — purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and monoethylene glycol (MEG) — that it needs to make yarn, as Chinese suppliers raise prices and Middle East supply is disrupted, managing director Madhu Sudhan Bhageria told Reuters.
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