06 May 2024
Indonesian customers have been slowing down purchases since the start of May claiming comfortable on-hand stocks while focusing on transferring the costs to finished goods selling prices.
06 May 2024 SPVC k67-68
Apparently, the demand condition has not shown any major improvement at the time of this report. The market has been treading lightly between the General Election in February followed by a series of holidays.
Arbitrage sellers took advantage of the drop in PP and LLDPE futures by offering better deals to spot buyers and closing deals accordingly.
Shenhua concluded the first auction session following the Labour Day break on a rather disappointing note, especially for homo-PP. The weakening futures contracts coupled with the falling energy complex weighed heavily on the trading sentiment.
03 May 2024
This is the second month of reduction in a row, sending the latest prices to the lowest levels since September 2023.
China is set to welcome eleven (11) new PP plants in 2024 with a combined annual capacity of 5.3 million tons. Some of these plants might decide to postpone the startup schedules would the production economy remains poor.
30 Apr 2024
As reported earlier, the local HDPE film market in Indonesia is now struggling with soft demand and higher availability compared to other grades.
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