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Holiday mood kicks in: Chinese PP, PE market retreats from multi-year highs
23 Sep 2026 A six-week bull run in China's polyolefin market has lost momentum. Sliding energy prices and pre-holiday caution among buyers pulled spot offers lower across all key commodity PP and PE grades
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23 Sep 2026

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China’s PET export offers ease below $1,200/ton as softer crude, buyer caution, and strong yuan cool four-week rally

Chinese PET bottle resin export offers moved lower this week, falling back below the $1,200/ton threshold as softer crude oil benchmarks, hesitant overseas demand, and a stronger Chinese yuan checked a four-week pricing rally.
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23 Sep 2026

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China Morning Snapshot – 23 September 2026

Crude's own five-session slide, a yuan at three-and-a-half-year highs, and the approach of Mid-Autumn and Golden Week have combined to drain sentiment from the futures market.
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22 Sep 2026

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Taiwanese producer hikes PVC offers for fifth straight round; caution brisk and prevalent

The move, announced on 22 September, extends a run of five consecutive hikes and underscores how tightly regional offers are now tracking upstream cost pressure rather than downstream demand.
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22 Sep 2026

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Statistics: China’s August PE apparent consumption tops 3.1M tons as ag-film surge masks margin rift

China’s apparent PE consumption rose to 3.10 million tons in August 2026, up 1.5% month-on-month (+47,300 tons) to mark its highest level since the first quarter.
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22 Sep 2026

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Shenhua Auction: Complete PE buyer strike pulls clearance to 67.7% despite discounted PP uptake

Deal activity was defined by an extreme product split: a complete buyer strike across all PE offerings contrasted with resilient, heavily discounted PP absorption.
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22 Sep 2026

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Malaysian major set for October PP & PE price hike as supply strained and costs bite, but buyers stay guarded

The supply picture underpinning that direction is a genuinely constrained one and not merely cautious positioning and cost dynamics have reinforced rather than driven that trajectory.
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22 Sep 2026

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China Morning Snapshot – 22 September 2026

The soft futures tone traces back to crude, which fell for a fourth consecutive session on Monday to its lowest level in 12 days.
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