Weekly commodity price report
Here are the market prices of various types of commodity plastics PE-LD, PE-HD, PP and PS in Central and Eastern Europe with a delay of 5 weeks. The data was processed by our partner myCEPPI.
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Prices for this week 17/2020
Price outlook: rollover and price declines
The prices of “commodity” polymers were affected by the following factors last week:
- BRENT oil price $ 21.33/barrel, steeply declining oil prices
- EUR/USD: 1.0808, weak Euro
- NAPHTHA (European): 141.92 USD/t, further decreased
- Spot monomer prices:
- Ethylene (C2) (FDNWE) 395 EUR/t
- Propylene (C3) (FDNWE) 610 EUR/t
- Styrene Monomer (SM) (FOB Rotterdam) 490 USD/t
- Producers under maintenance:
- Rompetrol: March 15, 2020- May 5, 2020. (LDPE, PP)
- Unipetrol: April 6, 2020 - May 18, 2020 (HDPE, PP, C2, C3)
- Decreases in refinery capacity utilization have a knock-on effect on monomer production
| Type | Price |
|---|---|
| HDPE blow molding | 826 € / t |
| HDPE film | 819 € / t |
| HDPE injection molding | 825 € / t |
| HDPE pipe (100) | 1020 € / t |
| LDPE film | 831 € / t |
| LDPE general purpose | 830 € / t |
| PP co-polymer injection molding | 987 € / t |
| PP homo-polymer fiber | 917 € / t |
| PP homo-polymer injection molding | 918 € / t |
| PPR | 1024 € / t |
| GPPS | 912 € / t |
| HIPS | 945 € / t |
| EPS | 898 € / t |
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