Linear Low Density Polyethylene Latin America

摘要

LLDPE price assessments were stable over last week supported by Latin producers still deciding offer prices for September and Asia offers to Latin America coming with small increases of $20/mt. A nervous market with a lot of speculation at the moment was the Latin American panorama for this week, as described by a source at Braskem. For the company, it was still difficult to say where the polyethylene offer levels for export are going to be for September because of the petroleum price variations in the US and Europe. "If the petroleum prices in the US and Europe go down, we might have some resin offer price reduction[s] for the export market. But if the petroleum prices are at least stable, we could have some PE offer price increases," said the source. During August Braskem was offering LLDPE to Peru at $1,550/mt CFR for butene and at $1,580/mt CFR for hexene and to Colombia at $1,610/mt CFR for butene and at $1,650/mt CFR for hexene. A buyer in Peru said the country had inventories because of the material that arrived from Asia in August.