SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Platts moves weekly US and European EDC/VCM to Tuesday

S&P Global Platts has moved publication of EDC and VCM prices, commentaries and rationales in US and Europe to Tuesday in a bid to bring the most up-to-date information to Polymerscan subscribers.

There has been no change in the publication schedule in Asia, where EDC/VCM prices, commentaries and rationales continue to be published every Thursday.

As part of the move and in order to streamline the coverage of the vinyls chain, Platts has merged the European EDC/VCM and chlor-alkali commentaries.

The new combined commentary on page PC392 of the Petrochemical Alert carries analysis of fundamentals of caustic soda, chlorine, EDC and VCM markets, and a separate rationale, explaining the logic behind the European assessments.

Platts has discontinued the page PC1181, which has previously carried the European EDC/VCM commentary.

The US EDC/VCM commentary, published on Petrochemical Alert page PC1548, will also now be published on Tuesdays, but will remain separate from the chlor-alkali weekly commentaries.

List of affected symbols:

Name Weekly Monthly average EDC FOB NWE PHAQK00 PHAQL03 EDC FOB USG PHARS00 PHART03

VCM FOB NWE PHAQO00 PHAQP03 VCM FOB USG PHARW00 PHARX03 VCM US Domestic Delivered cts/lb PHARY00 PHARZ03

The US and European EDC and VCM price assessments were previously published weekly every Thursday on the Platts Petrochemical Alert (PCA) pages PC0244, PC0182 and PC0181, in Platts Market Center and in the Polymerscan every Wednesday.

Platts has also revised headlines of several intermediates fixed pages as follows:

PCA page Description effective Tuesday, April 10, 2018 391 Platts European Chlor-Alkali Weekly Assessments 181 Platts European EDC/VCM Weekly Assessments 392 Platts European Chlor-Alkali, EDC/VCM

PCA page Former description 391 Platts NWE Chlor-Alkali Weekly Spot Prices 181 Platts European EDC/VCM Assessments 392 Platts NWE Chlor-Alkali

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