VIDEO: ICIS Special Report on US polyolefins markets

LONDON (ICIS)–The US polyolefin markets will be among the greatest beneficiaries of improved cracker and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) capacity in the coming years.

ICIS editor Michelle Klump talks about how those future upstream supply additions are impacting current market trends.

Polyolefin prices have been going up in Latin America with pressure from higher feedstock prices and tight availability of product in the US. 

However, a surge in the value of the US dollar, prompted by the quantitative easing program (also called the taper) in the US, has had a bigger impact on polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) prices, particularly in Argentina and Brazil. George Martin explains the situation in this ICIS Special Report.

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Produced by Andy Brice and Helena Strathearn