On Sunday, May 27th, 2018, the PDID Office of NPC announced the launch of new base prices for polymers and other petrochemical materials. This announcement happened whereas the same Office still has not provided a reasonable response to the last week’s unjustified 3% increase in almost all polymer materials, that resulted in markets fluctuations and price increases in the free market.
Also, for the first time after announcement of a single-price exchange rate for the US$, this week the price of the same currency faced with 110 Rials showing a 0.26% increase in FOREX, which, of course, could not affect much of the announced prices. Therefore, if the PDID Office continues to use the formula for the average US$ price and the average world prices for polymers delivery (95% of FOB prices in Persian Gulf), then only the second factor should be the main effective change factor in the polymer base prices for the last week of May and the 1st day of June.
This week, after a long period of time, the number of commodity products with falling prices were relativly higher than those commodities that were rising in price. The highest increase was recorded for ABS, which experienced 2.03%% growth in its base price last week, reaching 92.677 Rials/Kg. After ABS, the styrene based product 1520 rose up to 1.71% from its previous weekend price of 71.796 Rials/KG.
The group of PVCs also faced a rise in prices, with the third highest price polymer group facing with the price rise. The growth rate of the PVC group was 1.1%.
The following table shows all today’s determined prices for those polymers that are still behind the doors and the control of the PDID office.
| Commodity | May 21th
2018 |
May 27th
2018 |
Change
Amount |
Change % |
| US$ Value | 42000 | 42110 | +110 | 0.3 |
| EPS 200 / 300 | 66317 | – | – | + 0.6 |
| EPS 400 | 64440 | – | – | + 0.6 |
| GPS 1540 | 64745 | – | – | + 1.3 |
| HDPE Blowing (BL3 / 0035) | 52452 | 51720 | -732 | -1.4 |
| HDPE Extrusion (EX3/PE80) | 61018 | 59966 | -1052 | -1.7 |
| HDPE Extrusion (PE100) | 63070 | 61984 | -1086 | -1.7 |
| HDPE Film (X5 / F7000) | 52771 | 51851 | -920 | -1.7 |
| HDPE Injection (HI500 / 52518) | 45848 | 45075 | -773 | -1.7 |
| HDPE Rotational (3840) | 47651 | 47084 | -567 | -1.2 |
| HIPS 7240 | 72500 | 69235 | -3265 | -4.5 |
| LDPE Film (190 / 020 / 0075) | 49265 | 48359 | -906 | -1.8 |
| LLDPE 209AA | 47105 | 46312 | -793 | -1.7 |
| PET Bottle G781 | 59619 | 59775 | +156 | +0.3 |
| PET Bottle G785 | 57913 | 58064 | +151 | +0.3 |
| PET Bottle G821 | 62427 | 62590 | +163 | +0.3 |
| PET Bottle G825 | 60665 | 60824 | +159 | +0.3 |
| PP Inj. (MR 230) | 57415 | 57763 | +348 | +0.6 |
| PP Textile (R552 / Z30S) | 51749 | 52083 | +334 | +0.6 |
| PVC S7054 | 40285 | 40730 | +445 | +1.1 |
| PVC S57 | 40285 | 40730 | +445 | +1.1 |
| PVC S60 | 39572 | 40009 | +437 | +1.1 |
| PVC S65 | 36720 | 37125 | +405 | +1.1 |
| SBR Bright 1502 | 70591 | 71796 | +1205 | 1.7 |
