The spot Polyethylene market saw a smattering of transactions spread widely across the full slate of commodity grades; activity was reminiscent of our typical business, as opposed to the mad scramble to secure scarce material that we had seen for much of the past 6 weeks. All PE producers nominated at least $.07/lb of price increases with staggered implementation dates through mid-Oct; this should all be solid. There are several producers with an... [More]

Spot Polypropylene trading was very good, while both supply and demand have at times disappointed, this has been a need driven market and transactions come together as urgency requires. Prime HoPP and CoPP offers have been hard to come by, but a fairly steady flow of good offgrade railcars has continued to pelt the market and the material has consistently cleared very quickly. HoPP prices rose as much as $.16/lb in Harvey’s wake, but pulled back ... [More]