Resin demand in May in the Ukrainian market mainly was in April level. No serious sales increase and appearance of additional circulating assets of converters was observed. Only single companies could manage to increase the consumption.
In 2010 share of PVC-S imports from USA totaled over 39% (14.2 kt) from all the imports. Over half of these volumes was of American Formolon 622/Formosa resin.
In May European suspension was more preferable because of decrease of Euro exchange rate. Imports of European resin went up by 11% (to 6,2 kt) comparing with April 2010. Ukrainian companies increased supplies of Hungarian material made by BorsodChem by 24%.
For more detailed information about Ukrainian PVC market please refer to MRC DataScope reports.