12 Jul 2023 PET Bottle
This market is not the only sector that started regaining strength this week. Other petrochemical segments such as polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) are inching higher on better near-term demand prospects
12 Jul 2023
With surging futures contracts on Dalian Commodity Exchange, Chinese producers are not shy from implementing additional increases on spot PP and PE cargoes.
Trading activities on the Shenhua auction platform continued to witness leveraged sales with both homo-PP and LLDPE securing full deals supported by the limited auction volume
11 Jul 2023
Higher import arrival coupled with rising local production outputs led to a bloated domestic market throughout the month, which in turn, weighed heavily on both PP and PE prices.
Most traded PP and LLDPE contracts on Dalian Commodity Exchange rallied throughout the morning session on optimism that the government might extend economic support measures
Nevertheless, market players believed that the recent downswing has reached the cyclical bottom and the absence of sales pressure would encourage sellers to maintain a firm stance on the prices.
Still, Shenhua facilitated demand by offering discounts of CNY20/ton on homo-PP and CNY80/ton on LLDPE cargoes
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