SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Platts launches domestic Argentina HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE assessments

S&P Global Platts has launched weekly Argentina domestic spot polyethylene price assessments from November 8, 2017.

The new assessments are for high density polyethylene, linear low-density butene polyethylene and low-density polyethylene to reflect delivery in the greater Buenos Aires area by rail car or truck for the specifications below, in US dollars/mt and converted to Argentinian pesos.

Specifications for the polyethylene grades are: LDPE with a melt flow index of 1.8-2.5; LLDPE butene-1 grade with a melt flow rate of around 1.0; the HDPE grades are HDPE film, blowmolding and injection -- HDPE blowmolding and HDPE film grade with a melt flow rate 0.25 and higher, HDPE injection grade with a melt flow rate of 2.0-25.

Prices are for resin delivered three to 30 days from date of publication in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area and do not include taxes. Cargo sizes are 100-300/mt with a letter of credit of 60-90 days. Assessments reflect prices at 1:30 pm in the US Central time zone each Wednesday.

Assessments will appear in Polymerscan Latin American Edition and in the price database under the following codes: LLDPE: AABAC04 (weekly $/mt) and AABAD04 (weekly peso/mt); LDPE: AABAV04 (weekly $/mt) and AABAW04 (weekly peso/mt); HDPE Injection: AABAS04 (weekly $/mt) and AABAP04 (weekly peso/mt); HDPE film: AABAK04 (weekly $/mt) and AABAJ04 (weekly peso/mt); HDPE blowmolding: AABAE04 (weekly $/mt) and AABAF04 (weekly peso/mt).

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