Methanex
Methanex Corp manufactures and sells methanol. Its customers use methanol as a feedstock to produce end-products including adhesives, foams, solvents, and windshield washer fluids. The firm also sells its products to the oil refining industry, where the methanol is blended with gasoline to produce a high-octane fuel or blended as a component of biodiesel. It distributes its products through an extensive supply chain that includes the operation of port terminals, tankers, barges, rail cars, trucks, and pipelines. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Europe.www.methanex.com
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Sep 30, 2026
Simeon BrownGUEST
So stopping those things, sending clear signal that actually it's the market's job to address these challenges.
Simeon BrownGUEST
was really important but then of course we faced the 2024 dry year which you know the gas because of the gas ban and the lack of investment into gas exploration and new fields our fields have now been on a steep decline and so middle of that year facing you know electricity prices hitting 800 bucks a megawatt hour Lack of gas was a very challenging period of time for the New Zealand economy, but ultimately required Methanex providing gas to electricity generators, but not a pleasant period of time either.
Simeon BrownGUEST
But a result of policies which But effectively, the result of policies which were misguided and not taking into account the fact that if you want to have a 21st century economy, if you want to keep the lights on, you've actually got to be pragmatic on these issues.
Simeon BrownGUEST
As much as you might want to be 100% renewable...
Matt SmithGUEST
We're also going global with them with their global well services division.
Matt SmithGUEST
You know, Methanex has taken us into Canada.
Matt SmithGUEST
So, yeah, we're very fortunate that we work in a global sector where universally people value that safety and compliance aspect of what we bring.
Russell StewartHOST
Okay, so let's go back to this safety and compliance aspect.
Marella FernandezHOST
Time to go through some past picks from Colin Sosinski from April this year, April 7th.
Marella FernandezHOST
Methanex was first pick for him.
Marella FernandezHOST
MX on the TSX at $88.58. It's dropped to $84.50, 5% downside for a return, 4% for total return.
Marella FernandezHOST
What's been going on with Methanex? And remind us sort of the product that they make, what it's used for.
Colin CieszynskiGUEST
They use...
Colin CieszynskiGUEST
It is used in fertilizers.
Colin CieszynskiGUEST
Methanex, it's part of the feedstock for fertilizers.
Colin CieszynskiGUEST
And it's had its ups and downs.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
With the smaller ones, is it even worth transitioning? Do you just shut up shop and start again? With the bigger ones, I mean, you probably can't afford not to.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
The eventual exit as business desk rights of Methanex, New Zealand's single largest user, would free up some volumes currently used for methanol production, but that's only a temporary reprieve.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
What are we doing here? I can't even imagine what it looks like.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
I mean, you know what the future looks like.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
With the smaller ones, is it even worth transitioning? Do you just shut up shop and start again? With the bigger ones, I mean, you probably can't afford not to.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
You know, the eventual exit as Business Desk writes of Methanex, New Zealand's single largest user, would free up some volumes currently used for methanol production, but that's only a temporary reprieve.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
What are we doing here? I can't even imagine what it looks like.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
I mean, you know what the future looks like.
Glenn HartHOST
There is no way a contract of that sort would be signed by what is basically a te- caretaker government at this point.
Glenn HartHOST
The Methanex closure buys us a bit of time, but how much, we're not really sure.
Glenn HartHOST
The thing that they said we need, i.e., the terminal, that would be underwritten to the tune of a billion dollars, is now at the whims of the election.
Glenn HartHOST
More importantly, the coalition talks.
Kerre WoodhamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But even though we've complained about the cost of everything going up, the cost of a loaf of bread hasn't doubled.
Kerre WoodhamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Where are you at if you are one of those businesses, they're big and they're small, in terms of those that rely on gas? With the smaller ones, is it even worth transitioning? Do you just shut up shop and start again? With the bigger ones, I mean, you probably can't afford not to.
Kerre WoodhamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, the eventual exit, as Business Desk writes, of Methanex, New Zealand's single largest user, would free up some volumes currently used for methanol production, but that's only a temporary reprieve.
Kerre WoodhamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What are we doing here? I can't even imagine what it looks like.
Kelly SchuppGUEST
So for me, that was really the biggest takeaway from there.
Kelly SchuppGUEST
And I think that served me well when I left BASF and I pursued a job with Methanex Corporation with the intent of getting into their global expert team, because I just wanted to be at that level, like support sites.
Kelly SchuppGUEST
And again, I liked that sort of consulting role, if you will.
Kelly SchuppGUEST
And that was a really nice, I guess, segue and way to build all my experience before has just sort of built up so that the consulting role, which I hesitated to go back to when I started talking with equity, I thought, I don't want to go back to consulting.
Kelly SchuppGUEST
But what I failed to realize until recently when I took the job with equity is that consulting is actually really where I should be at this stage in my career.
Kelly SchuppGUEST
And it's due to all of that, all of those experiences that I had and built upon each other at each of those individual sites and levels, if you will.
Kelly SchuppGUEST
And that job with Methanex was a really fun job just because my boss and my peer or my coworker, they were both in New Zealand.
Kelly SchuppGUEST
I got to travel to New Zealand and spend three weeks there on a turnaround.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
With the smaller ones, is it even worth transitioning? Do you just shut up shop and start again? With the bigger ones, I mean, you probably can't afford not to.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
The eventual exit as business desk rights of Methanex, New Zealand's single largest user, would free up some volumes currently used for methanol production, but that's only a temporary reprieve.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
What are we doing here? I can't even imagine what it looks like.
Kerre WoodhamHOST
I mean, you know what the future looks like.
Ryan BridgeHOST
Look at Trump last night talking about doing an export diesel ban to try and get prices lower ahead of the midterm elections.
Ryan BridgeHOST
Of course, here, Methanex has bought us a bit more time with gas potentially, but we will have to wait and see what water goes under whose bridge on LNG tomorrow.
Shane JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Māui hasn't closed down.
Shane JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Methanex has shuttered.
Nivariti ManuHOST
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Nivariti ManuHOST
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