VIDEO: PE consumption, plant outages, currency devaluations, feedstocks
Renato Frimm
02-Oct-2020
HOUSTON (ICIS)–Watch Senior Editor Renato Frimm provide an outlook in Portuguese on Latin American polyethylene (PE) markets.
- PE boa demanda focando em produtos de alimentação e não duráveis
- Novas paralisações de produção de etileno nos EUA causado pelo furacão Laura
- Diminui disponibilidade para exportações para a região América Latina
- Desvalorização do Real e outras moedas da região Latina
- Produtores na região têm contratos da matéria prima indexado em dólar ou euro
- Good demand for PE products related to food and non-durables
- New ethylene feedstock plant outages caused by Hurricane Laura
- Lower availability for export from US to Latin America
- Devaluation of the Real and other regional currencies
- Latin America feedstock prices indexed in USD or Euro
This video was originally presented at the ICIS Latin American Outlook Seminar on 16 September.
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