Western European prices for standard thermoplastic ended the slide of the past three months and began to move up again in June. In doing this, they followed the tendency of the feedstocks, where the contracts for ethylene, propylene and styrene all emerged higher. In the first third of June, producers seldom managed to factor in the full increase in the cost of the monomer. Most of them had been looking for price rises above the cost increase, but converters did not hesitate to point out during the... (12.06.2020)