Butadiene Europe

摘要

The NWE butadiene market continued to be supported by domestic production issues, which helped maintain some level of balance, according to sources, although bearish signals were seen in the global market. Following recent talk of production issues in Germany, there were also rumors in the market of possible issues at other extraction units in Europe, although exact details of the scale of any problems were limited. Sources had reported that, as a knock-on effect of such issues, spot buying had seen FD NWE levels move above the August contract price of Eur1,575/mt ($1,936/mt), but there were few signs of new price developments this week.