Polyethylene activity picked up this past week, while completed volumes were not overly robust, deals were well spread across all major HDPE, LDPE and LLDPE grades. Trading was mostly done in single or multiple truckloads along with some notable export sales. HDPE saw the most completed transactions on the week, as Force Majeure conditions remain in place affecting these grades. Upstream Polyethylene inventories declined by more than 1 billion lb... [More]

It was a better week for Polypropylene trading and a relatively large volume of material changed hands. Our benchmark prices for both HoPP and CoPP finished flat for the second week in a row, having already rallied $.08/lb during the first part of January. Demand lacked luster most of the month as processors who could afford to push off their Polypropylene purchases resisted the rapidly rising prices driven by soaring feedstock costs, which at so... [More]