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POLYMER PRICE FORECASTS 

Political risks weigh on petchem prices / Outlook through January

11.07.2025 — By Plasteurope.com Price Team — In the first third of July, naphtha prices fell some 3.5% compared with the previous month’s average. However, the situation on the oil market remained unclear, with OPEC+ announcing a production increase of more than half a million barrels per day, and oil prices r...

11.07.2025 LOGISTICS  Typhoon season in Southeast Asia threatens global trade / Freight rates trend mixed

11.07.2025 UK  Polymer industry to benefit from new industrial strategy / Key sectors include advanced manufacturing / Composites set for gains

10.07.2025 AUTOMOTIVE RECYCLING  EU Parliament, Council plan significantly lower minimum recyclate quotas for new vehicles / Will ELV Directive come into force by mid-2026?

09.07.2025 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  Polyolefins: Unipetrol declares force majeure for Czech site

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11.07.2025 POLYMER PRICES  Standard thermoplastics trend July: Little change for polyolefins, PVC / Further styrene contract decline puts pressure on prices

11.07.2025 ECOBAT  Sale of auto battery, PP recycling business in Italy to Haiki

11.07.2025 PLASTICS MACHINERY  India imposes anti-dumping duties on hydraulic injection moulding machines from China, Taiwan

10.07.2025 SCHÜTZ Packaging manufacturer buys majority stake in Danish distributor

10.07.2025 POLYMER PRICES  China standard thermoplastics June: Prices trend mostly sideways / Weak demand balanced by rise in feedstock costs / LDPE, PET quotations higher / Most July prices to decline amid off-season

10.07.2025 BOREALIS  Austrian company wins polymer patent case against Mitsui Chemicals / Production of polyolefin elastomers for solar applications affected

10.07.2025 MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL  Construction of chemical recycling facility in Japan completed / Step toward plastics-to-oil conversion business with Eneos

10.07.2025 WESTLAKE Collaboration with Alpha Recyclage Composites / Expansion of carbon-fibre composites recycling

09.07.2025 FUENIX ECOGY  Dutch pyrolysis tech developer files for insolvency

09.07.2025 EXOLON  Sheet producer acquires polycarbonate sheet business from Corplex

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