After six consecutive weeks of climbing, the local HDPE film market finally regained the premium over the LLDPE film market thanks to the tightening supply condition that stemmed from a series of local plant shutdowns in March and April.
Over the weekend, a major producer in Indonesia reportedly opened fresh PP and PE offers to the local market at varying price points compared to the previous week. It is the third time in three weeks that homo-PP, LLDPE and HDPE were marked down
The market continued to leverage the tightening supply outlook as local PP and PE plants enter maintenance season while the latest official data from the government showed manufacturing activities in the country expanded for the first time in six months in March