Spot Polyethylene trading maintained its strong momentum developed during the final week of Nov and completed volumes continued to run above average. Pricing for all LDPE and LLDPE grades, both film and injection, were flat to firm, however HD grades shed a cent. Our trading desk was kept busy filling orders; however, the majority of transactions were actually booked to other distributors / resellers / exporters rather than processors. This was n... [More]

Spot Polypropylene trading started the month swiftly, transactions were well split between HoPP and CoPP, while prime demand outstripped offgrade and quick truckload shipments were favored over fresh railcar orders. As we saw in PE, resellers brought the best demand to our marketplace and their needs were met with liquid material availability, so most reasonable transactions fell into place without the need to negotiate fiercely. The middle and d... [More]