China Engineering Thermoplastics September 2015: Feedstock prices firm or pointing slightly up / Polymers remain soft / Strong demand / Domestic ABS producers lift output to meet orders / Outlook for October positive

Composites/GRP September 2015: Resins point slightly downward / Order surge toward year's end / Glass fibre producers gearing up for price increases

Engineering Thermoplastics September 2015: Notations come under pressure / Slump in cost of benzene begins to impact PA 6 / Start of new quarter and VW crisis will nibble increasingly at prices during October

Polyethylene September 2015: Notations fall significantly more than the monomer reference price / HD grades tend somewhat firmer / Many converters hold back with their buying activities / Price decline in October likely to be less marked than before

PVC September 2015: Producers pass on ethylene cost relief / Margins successfully defended / Cheap olefins pressure additives / Tough negotiations on the table in October

Base Petrochemicals, Aromatics and Feedstocks: September/Oktober 2015

Styrenics September 2015: Standard grades mostly follow SM reference / EPS and ABS also pulled down / Significant acceleration in October caused by styrenics monomer crash

Polypropylene September 2015: Rebates for standard grades exceed monomer's fall / Downswing loses momentum / Prices to continue downward in October / VW crisis clouds compound outlook

Price decline for PS

Significant price fall for ABS

PET September 2015: Costs fall a little more than prices / Imports significantly rarer / Demand livens up also due to topping-up effects / Indications point to stability in October

China Standard Thermoplastics September 2015: Feedstocks develop differently / Ethylene recovers while propylene falls / Polymer notations continue to soften / Demand up markedly ahead of National Day holiday

Polyurethane Feedstocks September 2015: Downward trend for all reported materials / Flexible polyols most affected / Further declines likely in October / Demand back to normal

All grades point down / LD and LLDPE film notations firm from week 36 onwards

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