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Turkey’s import and local polyolefin markets have been facing growing pressure from waning buying appetite since last week. The majority of PP and PE consumers went to the sidelines after paying massive increases in February and early March to replenish their stocks.
Import offers for PP in Southeast Asia stand at the highest since the last quarter of 2014. They are poised to remain supported in the near term due to tight supply, according to industry players.
The polyolefin upturn in China and Southeast Asia has stretched into the fourth week after the Lunar New Year holidays. Although persisting supply limitations support import prices at high levels, the pace of gains has slackened this week amid mixed buying sentiment.
Converters in both China and Southeast Asia were reluctant to...
Following the trend in 2020, shipping lines are expected to continue to have a good year in 2021. In the short term, container charges in the markets will remain high. However, due to the sensitivity of price fluctuations as well as the ability of the industry to recover the economy, medium-term freight rates are expected to be ...
Global polymer markets have been grappling with a dearth of supply since early Q4. Planned and unplanned shutdowns coupled with a deepening shipping crisis in the aftermath of an unexpected surge in demand have contributed to rapid price hikes in major regions. Prices for PP, PE, and PVC have more than doubled from the middle of...
In Europe, PS sentiment appears to have turned cautious as players moved to the sidelines on the back of steep corrections on styrene monomer. Still, ABS players have remained unfazed by the upstream volatility, with the support from supply-demand dynamics.
The bill, re-introduced this week in the Senate, targets the use of plastics in a variety of applications, and would, in fact, incentivize the production of less energy-efficient materials.
In Vietnam, local homo-PP prices have been witnessing reductions since after the market hit a more-than-two-year high in mid-December while waning demand is the main driver of this downturn. Two factors have weighed on buying interest recently: softening sentiment in China and reduced end-product manufacturing at home.
The plastic industry is benefiting from the overall growth of the economy as well as the plastic consuming industries such as real estate - construction, food and non-food. However, this industry is also facing many difficulties, most of which is in raw materials.