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14 February 2023 - Shenhua's coal-based PP and PE Auction Results

Market sources said that real demand from manufacturers has not picked up strongly enough, hence, Shenhua keeps deal prices for both PP and PE cargoes on the soft side to lure arbitrage traders back to the market.

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Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical Co has concluded the auction session for its coal-based PP and PE cargoes on 14 February 2023. The following table showed the details of the auction results for prime grade only: 

Product

Auction Volume

Deal Volume

Auction Prices

Deal Prices

Deal %

CNY/ton

USD/ton

CNY/ton

USD/ton

Combined and reported by CommoPlast

Homo-PP

2640

1939

7500

$973

7500-7850

$973-1019

73.4%

PP Fiber

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

PPBC

65

0

7900

$1025

-

-

0.0%

LLDPE

1300

1043

7900

$1025

7920-8240

$1028-1069

80.2%

LDPE

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

HDPE

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

*Auction and Deal volumes are in tonnage 

*All USD equivalent prices only exclude the 13% value-added tax (VAT). They have not taken into account other costs that might incur in the selling process, i.e. import duty, customs clearances.

 

Transactions on the Shenhua auction platform remain satisfactory on the second day of the week even though major PP and LLDPE contracts on Dalian Commodity Exchange showed little changes. Market sources said that real demand from manufacturers has not picked up strongly enough, hence, Shenhua keeps deal prices for both PP and PE cargoes on the soft side to lure arbitrage traders back to the market. 

Background:

Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical Co is currently the largest coal-based polyolefins producer in China, operates under four subsidiaries, namely: Shenhua Xinjiang Coal-based New Materials Project, Shenhua Yulin Energy Co Ltd, Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical Co Ltd and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group (Ningmei).

The company has an annual capacity of 2.65 million tons/year of PP, 750,000 tons/year of HDPE/LLDPE and 570,000 tons/year of LDPE.

Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical Co is active in spot trading, while also conducting the daily auction for its cargoes daily between 10AM to 12PM on the official online platform that specifically designed for this purpose: https://www.e-chnenergy.com