Polyurethane feedstocks in May 2010: Stagnating costs stabilise prices/Bank holidays dampen demand/Feedstock shortages and maintenance limit supply/ Risk of price hikes up to the end of Q2 persists

摘要

With demand lacklustre - due especially to partly overlapping bank holidays in big consumer countries - and the cost base predominantly stable, western European notations for polyurethane feedstocks in May remained virtually unchanged at the April level. Commitments by producers of flexible polyols to move notations forward lifted the lower end of this scale slightly. TDI producers, by contrast, had to give up EUR 20/t of their recently won increase. Apart from minor amendments at the upper end of the pure MDI table, this feedstock was more or less flat at its April level.