Platts to launch weekly Europe D40 and D60 spot assessments

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will launch Delivered Duty Paid Northwest Europe spot assessments for dearomatized white spirit with a flash point of 40° (D40) and dearomatized white spirit with a flash point of 60° (D60), effective Oct. 7, 2025.

Platts originally proposed these assessments in a subscriber note published July 30, available here.

These new assessments will complement the existing white spirit FD NWE and FOB Rotterdam assessments.

The weekly assessments, in Eur/mt, will take into consideration price information gathered up to the close of the assessment process on each Tuesday at 4:30 pm London time and follow the UK publishing schedule, which can be found here.

Details of the specifications are as follows:

Pricing information with terms, locations, and specifications different from the above standard may be considered for assessment purposes, subject to normalization.

Market information about D40 and D60 will be included in the existing hydrocarbon solvents commentary.

The assessments and the hydrocarbon solvents commentary will be available on Platts Connect and will be published in Solventswire.

Please send any questions, comments, or feedback to petchems@spglobal.com with a copy to pricegroup@spglobal.com.

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Platts will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.