Today, Sun. June 24th, after two weeks, the PDID office of NPC launched new prices for polymers and other petrochemical products, that are under supervision of the IMT ministry and their purchases from the IME needs special “B-Code”. Last week, due to the early holiday on Sunday, the office refused to declare new base prices, and until today, the announced prices on June 10th, 2018, were valid for the Iranian stock exchange and the deals it was in.
Like every price announcement Sundays, we have taken a look at the changes in the prices of the base products of polymeric materials to our readers’ attention.
Various types of PET bottle grades also occupied the third category of goods with half a percent growth in their prices. Commodities such as linear stylistic polyethylene and resinous 7240 polystyrene also had a growth of less than 0.5 percent.
The bright SBR 1502 with a 2% reduction in prices, for a kilogram, amounted to Rials 73.999, to be the highest in the first place. Subsequently, the extrusion grade of HDPE (PE100) dropped by 0.8% compared to the previous one with the highest price cut.
Other extrusion grades of HDPE, including PE80 and EX3 also by 0.7% price dropping stood at the third place, with the highest base price fall.
All polymer prices and their two weeks’ variations are shown at the following table:
| Commodity | June 10th
2018 |
June 24th
2018 |
Change
Amount |
Change % |
| US$ Value | 42183 | 42465 | +28 | +0.7 |
| EPS 200 / 300 | 66317 | – | – | + 0.6 |
| EPS 400 | 64440 | – | – | + 0.6 |
| GPS 1540 | 64745 | – | – | + 1.3 |
| HDPE Blowing (BL3 / 0035) | 51870 | 52216 | +346 | +0.7 |
| HDPE Extrusion (EX3/PE80) | 59524 | 59920 | +396 | +0.7 |
| HDPE Extrusion (PE100) | 61546 | 61069 | -477 | -0.8 |
| HDPE Film (X5 / F7000) | 52204 | 52409 | +205 | +0.4 |
| HDPE Injection (HI500 / 52518) | 45599 | 45536 | -63 | -0.1 |
| HDPE Rotational (3840) | 47630 | 47565 | -65 | -0.1 |
| HIPS 7240 | 71954 | 72216 | +262 | +0.4 |
| LDPE Film (190 / 020 / 0075) | 48089 | 47798 | -291 | -0.6 |
| LLDPE 209AA | 45805 | 45866 | +61 | +0.1 |
| PET Bottle G781 | 59857 | 60169 | +312 | +0.5 |
| PET Bottle G785 | 58144 | 58446 | +302 | +0.5 |
| PET Bottle G821 | 62676 | 63002 | +326 | +0.5 |
| PET Bottle G825 | 60907 | 61224 | +317 | +0.5 |
| PP Inj. (MR 230) | 57789 | 58174 | +385 | +0.7 |
| PP Textile (R552 / Z30S) | 52099 | 52446 | +347 | +0.7 |
| PVC S7054 | 40732 | 41186 | +454 | +1.1 |
| PVC S57 | 40732 | 41186 | +454 | +1.1 |
| PVC S60 | 40012 | 40457 | +445 | +1.1 |
| PVC S65 | 37128 | 37.541 | +413 | +1.1 |
| SBR Bright 1502 | 75497 | 73999 | -1498 | -2.0 |
