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Shenhua Auction: Mild futures rebound fails to lift buying interest; resistance persists on higher-priced cargoes

At Shenhua’s latest auction, LLDPE film offers held broadly stable, while homo-PP yarn prices rose by about CNY70/ton from the previous session.


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Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical Co., China’s largest coal-based petrochemical producer, concluded its auction 04 November 2025, with the results for prime grades as follows:

 

Product

Auction Volume

Deal Volume

Auction Prices

Deal Prices

Deal %

CNY/ton

USD/ton

CNY/ton

USD/ton

Combined and reported by CommoPlast

PPH Yarn

2500

1259

6220

$773

6220-6520

$773-810

50.4%

LL Film

600

400

6650

$827

6670-6850

$829-851

66.7%

*Auction and Deal volumes are in tonnage

*All USD equivalent prices only exclude the 13% value-added tax (VAT). They have not taken into account other costs that might incur in the selling process, i.e. import duty, customs clearances.

 

Auction platform: https://www.e-chnenergy.com  

Auction time: Monday – Friday, 10 AM – 12 PM 

At Shenhua’s latest auction, LLDPE film offers held broadly stable, while homo-PP yarn prices rose by about CNY70/ton from the previous session. On the Dalian Commodity Exchange, PP and LLDPE futures briefly rebounded early in the session before easing, with PP contracts underperforming LLDPE.

 

Market participants said higher PP offers met firm resistance from buyers, leading to limited transactions. “Even with discounts, demand remains sluggish, so it’s unsurprising that higher prices translated into fewer deals,” one trader said.

 

Some sellers trimmed spot LLDPE offers ahead of the auction, and a limited number of need-based purchases—notably for agricultural and seasonal film demand—helped support LLDPE clearing. Overall, sentiment remains cautious as participants await clearer signals from futures and feedstock benchmarks.

 

Written: Kat Yun Yun 

Edited: Farid Muzaffar


Country
China