Our Polyethylene sales, which had been slow, moved closer to average during this past week. PE availability has been improving, which was reinforced by recent industry data, which showed an 85 million lb monthly increase in collective upstream inventories as of the end of May, but even as such, some grades have still been difficult to source. Key commodity grade resins like HDPE for Blow Mold and LLDPE for Film & Injection were all major movers f... [More]

Polypropylene trading activity continued to gather momentum into mid-month but then slowed as energy and other major markets fell sharply during the back part of the week. Completed volumes were skewed towards HoPP over CoPP and evenly split by quality. Ultimately, our spot PP pricing for the week dropped a penny on average amid heavier Prime and Offgrade railcar offerings and lax demand. PP prices have slipped $.03/lb since the beginning of May ... [More]