Market players said that buying activity in July slightly declined, compared with the previous month on the back of holiday season and the period of the scheduled turnarounds. Many Ukrainian converters plan to shut their capacities for maintenances in late July. 

 

Ukrainian market of finished PC products, mainly  injection moulding products for the automotive and electrical engineering, partly focused on exports in Russia and other CIS countries. Market participants said that more than half of Ukrainian companies, which have business with Russia, now experience downtrend. However, about 40% of the rest companies continue to work normally, and ship the material to Russia.

 

Regarding exports of injection moulding products to the EU countries, their remained the same. Ukrainian converters have not felt the economic impact of the signing of the agreement with the EU countries so far. Exports to the EU are still hampered by the such obstacles as international certification, standardisation and quality control.

 

In general, Ukrainian PC market remained stable in all its segments, except for the extrusion, which in January-July this year showed an increase of consumption of 126%, compared with the same time a year earlier. According to market players, this resulted from a sharp reduction in imports of PC cell-sheets from Russia in the last two months.