S&P Global proposes changes to European styrene butadiene rubber location specifications

S&P Global Commodity Insights proposes to narrow the location for its FOB SBR spot assessments to reflect all major Northwest European ports, basis Rotterdam, and no longer include Italy and Spain, effective June 17, in order to better reflect standard market practices.

Indications for Italy and Spain would still be taken into consideration and may be normalized to Rotterdam in the assessment process.

The proposed location changes would affect the following assessments:

SBR: FOB NWE: AAWXB00, AAWXD00, AAWXF00, AAWXH00, AAWXJ00

Platts SBR assessments are published on Petrochemical Alert pages PCA 752, 754, as well as in Olefinscan, the Petrochemical Service on Platts Dimensions Pro, Platts Market Center and in Platts price database.

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