PVC

PVC September 2023 Price Review

Prices for PVC continued to fall in August, even if not as sharply as in the previous month. As expected, the holiday season had a dampening effect on orders, and hence demand – which was already at a low level – fell even further. Although output was still curtailed by production cutbacks and plant maintenance, contracts were fulfilled at all times. A turnaround appeared...

PVC August 2023 Price Review

Prices for PVC continued their downward trend in July. Nothing has changed as far as the weak level of demand is concerned. The falling cost of ethylene has similarly confirmed this price trend. Sufficient material is available on the market, even if European production is only currently running at 60 per cent capacity and fewer imports have been channelled into Europe of late. Imports...

PVC July 2023 Price Review

The downward trend in PVC prices continued in June. Apart from a brief interruption in February, quotations have now gone down for 13 months...

PVC June 2023 Price Review

The downward trend with PVC prices continued in May, and on a much greater scale than had been intimated by the small drop in...

PVC May 2023 Price Review

Once again, the decline in the ethylene reference defined the price direction even though many contracts were decoupled from it and ended up lower....

PVC April 2023 Price Review

The brief flicker of life in February faded again in March, with the result that PVC and compound prices reversed course again and were...

PVC March 2023 Price Review

After PVC prices had known only one direction since April 2022, the downward trend ended in February. Prices for PVC and compounds turned upwards,...

PVC February 2023 Price Review

The downward trend in PVC prices continued on into the new year. It was not only the lower ethylene quotation for January that prompted...