01 Nov 2023
Data from CommoPlast showed within 2023, China welcomes six new PET plants with a combined capacity of 3.8 million tons/year.
Surprisingly, local suppliers decided to keep spot PP and PE offers on the stable to softer trend, against the firmer futures market.
Chinese bidders are attracted by the competitive pricing of coal-based cargoes as the domestic spot market remains relatively firm.
31 Oct 2023
As reported earlier, Asian propane dehydrogenation (PDH) operators have been reducing utilization rates over the past months amid margin compression.
A key Malaysian producer shrugged off the weakening trend in the regional PP and PE market to introduce moderate reductions on only PP cargo for November delivery to domestic buyers.
Most traded PP and LLDPE contracts for January 2024 delivery reversed earlier gains to settle in the negative territory following disappointing manufacturing activities in October.
Following a satisfactory trading result in the previous session, coal-based producer Shenhua tested market responses by lifting auction homo-PP price by CNY190/ton to reflect the reduced availability
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