Polymer Prices Recyclate Engineering Thermoplastics / Recyclate

Engineering Recyclate April 2017: Recent price increases across the entire portfolio / Boom in demand / Availability of production scrap considerably tighter in some cases / Demand only minimally slowed by holiday period

Engineering Recyclate March 2017: Massive price increases / Peak still not reached / Lively demand results in the first bottlenecks / Recycling companies near to their capacity limits

Engineering Recyclate February 2017: Increases on the primary market begin to impact secondary products / Response with PA and PC/ABS blends / Adequate supply, demand and capacity utilisation / Base material likely to become more expensive in March

Engineering Recyclate January 2017: Little movement in January / Reasonable ordering activity with availability normal / Price rises likely in February on a broad front / ABS will be affected most

Engineering Recyclate December 2016: Secondary materials unchanged at year's end / Demand significantly weaker / Flood of orders for Q1 / Price hikes likely for some grades in new year

Engineering Recyclate November 2016: Notations mostly stable / Uptrend likely / With year-end approaching, demand takes another dip / Abundance of scrap material

Engineering Recyclate October 2016: Notations predominantly stable / Individual peaks for rPA and rPOM are capped / Demand below expectations / Little effect felt from producers' calls for hikes on the primary market

Engineering Recyclate September 2016: Most prices continue to crumble / Primary market developments put recyclers under pressure / Demand subdued even after end to the holidays

Standard Recyclate September 2016: Notations decline slightly across the board / rPP and rPS resist downtrend / Demand at times below expectations / Stability expected in October

Engineering Recyclate August 2016: Virgin material surplus rings in landslide in secondary market notations / Polyamides and polycarbonate strongest affected / Despite signs of stabilisation, minor tremors still possible

Engineering Recyclate July 2016: Notations unchanged apart from rABS and rPP compounds / Other materials reflect primary market's stability / Few changes expected in August

Engineering Recyclate June 2016: Higher feedstock notations have little effect on recyclate prices / Small upward corrections for rABS, rPA 6 and rPC / Market jitters about future indexing of PP

Engineering Recyclate May 2016: General uptrend increasingly impacts secondary market / Threat of widespread hikes / Only exception is rPOM

Engineering Recyclate April 2016: Downtrend comes to an end / Initial hikes for rABS, rPC and rPP / Notations likely to continue rising in May / Numerous holidays will impact business activity

Engineering Recyclate March 2016: Only minor price reductions / Feedstocks expected to rise / Upward trend with primary material should stabilise recyclate prices / Early Easter will put a damper on demand

Engineering Recyclate February 2016: Declines become more widespread / Cheaper virgin material increasingly pressures regrind / Primary market slide expected to bottom out

Engineering Recyclate January 2016: Virgin material declines ring in slight fall for most regrind grades / Only rABS and rPOM hold stable / Top-up effect drives demand / Notations expected to bottom out

Engineering Recyclate December 2015: PA and PC downslide comes to a halt / Prices likely to bottom out soon / Demand drops significantly in December / January order books nevertheless already full

Engineering Recyclate November 2015: Downtrend in unreinforced rPA continues / Other grades mostly roll over / Availability suffices to meet stable demand / Processors busy securing volumes for January

Engineering Recyclate October 2015: PA and PC notations take a nosedive following virgin material declines / Other regrind materials mostly stable / Demand quite respectable towards year's end

Engineering Recyclate September 2015: Little movement / Cost declines from petrochemicals and primary markets have not yet filtered through / rPOM slips / rABS and rPP compounds prices could decline

Engineering Recyclate August 2015: Prices roll over across the board / Holiday season dictates supply and demand / Return to normality in the next few weeks / Possible upturn with regrind POM and PC

Engineering Recyclate July 2015: Most grades trend sideways / Availability of production scrap largely suffices to meet demand / rPC and rPP compounds the sole exceptions / rABS prices could erode in August

Engineering Recyclate June 2015: Substantial rises for rPC and rPP compounds / Despite upward pressure, all other grades mostly roll over / Notations still caught in upwind

Engineering Recyclate May 2015: Mixed picture / rABS, rPC and rPP compounds tend upwards / Minor decreases with rPA / Wave of price hikes gradually impacting base material rates / Upturn likely to continue