Weekly commodity price report
Here are the market prices of various types of commodity plastics PE-LD, PE-HD, PP and PS in Central and Eastern Europe with a delay of 5 weeks. The data was processed by our partner myCEPPI.
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Prices for this week 35/2020
The market expects unchanged prices in September
The prices of “commodity” polymers were affected by the following factors last week:
- BRENT oil price 45.05 USD/barrel, slowly rising oil prices
- EUR/USD: 1.1905, slowly but steadily weakening dollar
- NAPHTHA (European) 381.15 USD/t, stagnant prices
- Ongoing maintenance:
- MOL Petrochemical (Tiszaújváros). It will restart in September.
- Unipetrol Litvinov PE3 (HDPE) is down.
- Slowly strengthening demand, smaller forward purchases last week.
- Market expectations point to a September price roll-over for both PE, PP and PS.
- Hurricane season in the United States
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| Type | Price |
|---|---|
| HDPE blow molding | 0 € / t |
| HDPE film | 0 € / t |
| HDPE injection molding | 0 € / t |
| HDPE pipe (100) | 0 € / t |
| LDPE film | 0 € / t |
| LDPE general purpose | 0 € / t |
| PP co-polymer injection molding | 0 € / t |
| PP homo-polymer fiber | 0 € / t |
| PP homo-polymer injection molding | 0 € / t |
| PPR | 0 € / t |
| GPPS | 0 € / t |
| HIPS | 0 € / t |
| EPS | 0 € / t |
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