Update: Synthetic rubber pricing data

London – Synthetic rubber pricing* was generally flat over the trading week ended 22 Dec, with exceptions for just a couple of polymer commodities.

Nitrile rubber continued on a downward track, though at a slower week-on-week rate than seen earlier in December.

Movng in the opposite direction, styrene butadiene rubber prices registered a slight gain over the trading week, data collected by ChemAnalyst also shows.

Also on the up was ChemAnalyst's pricing tracker for butadiene FD Hamburg, the monomer showing a week-on-week pricing increase of 3.2%.

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 *The compiled figures are from the following specific trading-points monitored by ChemAnalyst and may not be reflective of broader market trends:

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