Spot Polyethylene market activity chilled from its fervent pace and prices were flat across the board. Domestic PE demand in March improved about 150M lbs over Feb, the 2.6 billion lbs purchased was about 50 million more than the trailing 12 month average. The spot export arbitrage was closed so exports slowed for the third straight month to just 522 million lbs, the lightest since April 2012. Producers rectified a number of production issues an... [More]

Spot Polypropylene trading ran about average this past week and prices held firm. National resellers have been pruning their surplus supplies around the country, while all Generic Prime commodity grades of HoPP & CoPP are still readily available to ship from Houston in packages. In March, domestic PP demand improved 122M lbs over February’s dismal results, but still the 1.28 billion lbs purchased was 52 million lbs below the trailing 12 month ave... [More]