Propylene Latin America

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Polypropylene producers in Mexico and Colombia have kept the propylene market active so far this year, sources said. Colombia’s Esenttia along with Mexico’s Indelpro have been singled out by US-based olefins traders as the the most active spot buyers throughout the first two quarters of 2015. A 10,000-mt cargo of monomer aboard the JBU Forth from the US Gulf Coast delivered at the end of May in Cartagena, home to Esenttia’s PP production, could be part of a longterm contractual plan, a source with knowledge of company operations said. “We have increased buying during these two months from the US,” the source said. Polypropylene has been tight globally throughout the second quarter buyers have turned to regional producers for resins. In Mexico, Pemex Petroquimica’s propylene route to the acrylonitrile plant was heard delayed as demonstrators blocked the roads in protest of state elections las week.