As of September 8, 2017, there are several chemical raw material shortages due to Hurricane Harvey and other issues. As of right now, many factories in Texas have not been visited since the employees evacuated so nobody has reliable information about the state of the chemical plants. FBC Chemical has had orders canceled and seen skyrocketing prices in reaction to the chaos and lack of solid information. Nobody has really seen which plants were damaged and how badly. We expect many plants to start back up over the week of September 11. As reports come in from employees in the plants, we expect to be able to make more sense of the market situation and we expect chemical prices/availability to more closely reflect actual reality, rather than panic buying.

Following is a non-comprehensive list of products that FBC Chemical has placed on allocation:

• Butanol / Butyl Alcohol
• Butyl acetate
• Benzyl Alcohol
• PM Acetate
• Acetone
• Methyl Ethyl Ketone
• Methyl Iso Butyl Ketone
• Methyl Amyl Ketone
• Monoethanolamine (all grades)
• Triethanolamine (all grades)
• Propylene Glycol
• Propylene Glycol USP
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glycol Ethers – all grades
• Hexane
• Di Basic Ester
• Silicone Fluids – all viscosities
• Propylene Carbonate
• Nonylphenol Decoupage

For further information, please contact your FBC sales representative.