PVC again led the North American resin market with more than 3% sales growth in 2017. In contrast, other resins showed modest performance, sales of low-density polyethylene decreased, and polypropylene sales were unchanged from the previous year.
In 2017, many Chinese enterprises violated the anti-monopoly law and became the largest single ticket issued by the Chinese anti-monopoly department to domestic enterprises since the anti-monopoly law was implemented in the past nine years. Since the start of PVC prices, the global PVC has been unstoppable and has been climbing steadily .
PVC sales in the United States and Canada surpass £ 15.8bn in 2017, largely due to the strong construction market in the United States, where sales of domestic PVC have risen by nearly 5%, despite the same level of export sales, while A rise also greatly aggravated the cost of domestic downstream products business.This makes people not only think of the 2017 domestic antitrust act is related to it.
In 2017, the regional PE market experienced a difficult year with high and low-density PE sales generally declining and sales showing a low unit growth.
Sales of HDPE in the United States and Canada dropped almost 4% to less than 18.6 billion pounds in 2017 as domestic sales increased nearly 4% while export sales fell 28%. Domestic sales of high-density polyethylene increased Led by the pipeline sector, sales therefore increased by nearly 21%, with water pipe growth at almost 27%. Pipelines accounted for nearly 16% of regional HDPE sales in 2017.
On the other hand, low-density polyethylene has seen annual sales decline by nearly 1% to just over 7 billion pounds, with more than 2% of domestic sales softened due to an export growth of more than 4%. Even though the market for low-density polyethylene in the country is declining, Of sales of non-packaging film increased by 3% this year.This category accounted for nearly 6% of domestic sales of low-density polyethylene this year.
Domestic sales growth in 2017 was driven by food packaging film, which has exceeded 17% market share in China in 2017.
Sales of North American polypropylene - including Mexico - are essentially below the market of £ 17.3bn, unchanged from 2017.
The regional PP market showed strong growth in several domestic categories with almost a 10% increase in plate sales, almost 6% for injection molded household appliances and almost 4% for injection molded caps or cup containers.
However, the solid polystyrene market in North America experienced some setbacks in 2017, with sales plunged by more than 2% to just £ 4.3bn In the domestic market, the PS on electrical and electronic use offers a new bright spot for sales, Increase more than 2% this year.
ACC Association in 2017 to track the small-scale market reports:
· US / Canada scalable PS sales rose nearly 4% to about 1.1 billion pounds.
· North American polyether polyurethane polyol sales fell more than 5% has been less than 3.2 billion pounds.
· US MDI sales rose nearly 6%, about 3.2 billion pounds.
· The sales of epoxy products in the United States exceeded 2%, more than 528 million pounds.