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Polyethylene May 2018: Many long bank holiday weekends dampen price dynamic / Producers' hopes of recouping cost increases mostly prove unrealistic / Rising oil prices drive up C2 reference for June / Price hikes unavoidable
With the ethylene reference price for May rising by EUR 20/t, European PE producers felt the time had come to begin restoring margins. However, it ...
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