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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