Jun 17, 2025 3:23 a.m.

21 August 2023 - Shenhua's coal-based PP and PE Auction Results

A series of events including reduced production outputs among local plants for certain grades coupled with potential delay in imported cargoes seemed to play their hands in the market movement at the start of the week.

Title

Available in

Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical Co has concluded the auction session for its coal-based PP and PE cargoes on 21 August 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

1666

1666

7230

$876

7290-7620

$884-924

100.0%

PP Fiber

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

PPBC

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

LLDPE

1033

1033

8000

$970

8040-8290

$975-1005

100.0%

LDPE heavy duty

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

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.

 

Trading activities on the Shenhua auction platform remained surprisingly strong on the first day of the week as market participants shrugged off the cloudy macroeconomic outlook to focus on the strong upstream costs and tighter availability. Also, fueling the willingness to procure additional cargoes is the surging futures contracts on Dalian Commodity Exchange. A series of events including reduced production outputs among local plants for certain grades coupled with potential delay in imported cargoes seemed to play their hands in the market movement at the start of the week.

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

Country

China