Update: Synthetic rubber pricing data

London – Synthetic rubber pricing for the trading week ended 21 April depicted a mixed picture across a range of selected materials.

In particular, EPDM rubber made substaintial gains, while polybutadiene rubber continued a decline from the prior-week, ChemAnalyst data* shows.

The trading week also saw a recovery in nitrile rubber prices, which had followed a downtrend track over the past few weeks.

Styrene butadiene rubber and butadiene monomer saw week-on-week declines, while halobutyl rubber and fluoroelastomers remained stable.

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The compiled figures are from the following specific trading-points monitored by ChemAnalyst:

*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