Polyethylene

Polyethylene September 2023 Price Review

Despite the rollover with the ethylene feedstock, initial offers in August from European producers were for increases around the €100 ($107) per tonne mark. Converters refused to go along with this. Later in the month, however, producers increasingly insisted on price hikes, even if it meant that they nipped a lot of the ordering in the bud. In eastern Europe, prices fell – in...

Polyethylene August 2023 Price Review

In the case of most PE materials, producers had to bite the bullet in July and yield to converters’ pressure by granting them reductions that went significantly further than the fall in the cost of the monomer. Only a few HD and LLD types were able to extricate themselves almost completely from this trend. Many plastics film manufacturers have been reporting a machine utilisation rate...

Polyethylene July 2023 Price Review

The price of ethylene feedstock fell by €80 ($88) per tonne in June. In the case of PE, this prompted triple-digit price reductions across...

Polyethylene June 2023 Price Review

With the unexpected reduction of €10 ($10.70) per tonne in the ethylene contract at the beginning of May, the plunge experienced recently by PE...

Polyethylene May 2023 Price Review

The €40 ($44) a tonne fall in the ethylene reference dictated the direction prices took in April, namely downwards over a broad range. Only...

Polyethlylene March 2023 Price Review

The industry has still not managed to pull itself from its vale of tears, with production, demand and consumption all weak. Like producers, converters are...

Polyethylene February 2023 Price Review

In the past few months, PE prices have been falling almost continuously – a trend that also continued into January. Led by the significant fall...