Synthetic rubber pricing continues downtrend

London – Synthetic rubber* futures continued to fall during the last week of October, with all commodities registering week-on-week declines throughout the entire month.  (Click on table to enlarge)

During the trading week ended 28 Oct, butadiene prices fell back even further posting the sharpest decline at 6%, followed by polybutadiene rubber which saw a 4.2% week-on-week drop.

According to the latest ChemAnalyst data, collected for ERJ, fluoroelastomers as well as nitrile and halobutyl rubbers saw week-on-week declines of well over 2%.

EPDM rubber saw the smallest decrease of just under 1%, while styrene butadiene rubber was down 3.4% week-on-week.

*Synthetic rubber prices compiled exclusively for ERJ:
EPDM medium diene FOB Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Halobutyl rubber BIIS CFR, Hamburg, Germany
Styrene butadiene rubber 1502 FD Wuppertal, Germany
Nitrile butadiene rubber 18-40% CFR, Hamburg, Germany
Polybutadiene rubber FOB, Hamburg, Germany.
Fluoroelastomers MV (25-61) FD Hamburg
Butadiene FD Hamburg