MOSCOW (MRC) -- January 2016 overall imports of polypropylene (PP) to Ukraine decreased by 17% from December 2015, totalling 8,700 tonnes. Propylene block copolymer (PP-block) accounted for the greatest fall in demand, according to MRC DataScope report.
January PP imports into Ukraine decreased to 8,700 tonnes under the pressure of seasonal factors (the long New Year holidays, absence of demand for finished products in the key processing sectors) from 10,500 tonnes in December 2015. Demand subsided for all PP grades, with injection moulding PP-block accounting for the greatest decrease in demand.
The supply structure by PP grades looked the following way over the stated period.
Last month's imports of propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) into the Ukrainian market accounted for slightly over 7,000 tonnes, whereas this figure was 8,200 tonnes a month earlier. Homopolymer PP of raffia grade from Russia accounted for the main reduction in shipments.
January PP-block imports dropped to 800 tonnes from 1,200 tonnes a month earlier, Ukrainian companies reduced their purchasing of injection moulding PP-block.
Last month's imports of statistical propylene copolymer (PP-random) to Ukraine totalled 764 tonnes versus 755 tonnes a month earlier, most local converters maintained their December purchasing of PP-random.
Overall imports of other copolymers of propylene were less than 200 tonnes over the stated period.
MRC